Wrentham

Remains of a person who died over fifty years ago have been exhumed from a cemetery in Wrentham, Massachusetts, for DNA testing. For nearly five decades, the grave was marked only by a number, 18. It wasn’t until a year or so ago that Center Cemetery staff realized the identity and cause of death of the person interred there have…

A body that’s been unidentified for more than 50 years was exhumed from the Center Cemetery in Wrentham, Massachusetts, in the hopes that DNA analysis may finally offer answers about who the person was, authorities said. 

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A body that’s been unidentified for more than 50 years will be exhumed from the Center Cemetery in Wrentham, Massachusetts, in the hopes that DNA analysis may finally offer answers about who the person was, authorities said Friday. The skeletal remains were found by two hikers on April 20, 1974, near the Eagle Brook pumping station in Wrentham. The body,…

One man is dead after he attempted to make an abrupt U-turn on Route 1 in Wrentham, Massachusetts, on Friday. State police say troopers responded around 5:33 p.m. to the two-vehicle crash and found one a Mercedes driver with serious injuries. The 50-year-old Mansfield man was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. His name…

Massachusetts State Police arrested a man and a woman in Auburn Thursday after a chase. Police say a vehicle that was being sought after a shoplifting incident at the Wrentham Village Outlets was seen on I-495 northbound in Hopkinton. According to state police, the driver fled on I-90 westbound before trying to exit through a snow gate and ending up…

Police in Wrentham, Massachusetts, issued a BOLO on Facebook Sunday — for a goat on the lam. Wrentham police say “Mama” is missing from the Indian Head Road/Hawes Street area. According to police, the goat could be anywhere at this point and is very skittish. Any sightings should be reported to police at 508-384-2121.

A driver has been charged in a crash that left a pedestrian dead and closed part of Route 1 in Wrentham, Massachusetts, on Tuesday evening, according to police. Police say Taunton resident Patrick E. Royster, 42, died after he was struck by two vehicles on Route 1. Investigators believe he was walking in the breakdown lane and tried to cross…

A man was hit and killed by an SUV with a plow attached in Wrentham Tuesday night as icy roads caused problems across Massachusetts.

A crash left a pedestrian dead and closed part of Route 1 in Wrentham, Massachusetts, on Tuesday evening, according to police. Police Chief Bill McGrath confirmed the fatal crash on Route 1 between Madison and Thurston Streets. Police say an SUV with a plow attached hit a man in the road. One other vehicle may have been involved. The drivers…

The police chief in Wrentham, Massachusetts, is warning of three-plus hour waits and urging shoppers to avoid the Wrentham Outlets on the afternoon of Black Friday. “STOP. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO DRIVE TO THE #WRENTHAMOUTLETS, DO NOT BOTHER. THEY WILL BE CLOSED BEFORE YOU CAN GET THROUGH TRAFFIC. WAITS EXCEED THREE HOURS. 495 AND SURROUNDING ROADS ARE JAMMED. TRY…

Diane Fenton is accused of hitting her husband with a bat in front of children she was watching at her at-home daycare in September.

A former Red Sox pitcher is in need of a kidney and looking for a donor. Jeff Plympton grew up playing baseball in Plainville, Massachusetts, and now works for the town of Wrentham. “To get the call from the Red Sox, it was, ‘Wow, that’s amazing,’” he said. “Got to play in my backyard at Pawtucket, then eventually get...

Jeff Plympton, who reached the majors with the Red Sox in 1991, is in need of a kidney.

Massachusetts State Police is investigating the cause of a serious crash in Wrentham Friday night that left multiple people injured. According to police, witnesses say they saw a sedan heading south on Route 1 rear end a pickup truck. The sedan then deflected across the center line into the opposite lanes of travel and crashed head-on into another car. The…

The hazing involved boxing matches between several 10th graders, who were chosen to participate by several upperclassmen, the letter said. There weren’t any coaches around during the boxing matches. No one was reported hurt.

Several 10th graders on the King Philip Regional High School football team partook in boxing sessions during what administrators at the Wrentham, Massachusetts, school are calling a hazing incident. In a letter sent to the school community on Monday, school officials said that the incidents that happened in August at a football camp in Naples, Maine, “meet both the legal…

A missing man was found dead in a pond in Hamilton, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, police said. Police had been looking for Steve Perry, a 73-year-old retired truck driver, who hadn’t returned home in Wrentham Saturday and was lost as he drove around southern New England. Wrentham police said he’d wanted to go to a local restaurant, then head home....