Massachusetts State Troopers To Start Wearing Body Cameras

About 100 Massachusetts state troopers will wear a body camera over the next six months as part of a pilot program, according to State House News Service.

The announcement comes in the wake of scandals last year, including the revelation that some state troopers had been paid for overtime shifts they didn't work and that a confessed former drug dealer and money launderer had been hired as a state trooper.

Former WBZ Radio Anchor Gary LaPierre Dies
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Former WBZ Radio Anchor Gary LaPierre Dies

Matthew McDonald

Longtime WBZ radio news anchor Gary LaPierre died Monday, February 4, according to WBZ. He was 76.

LaPierre, originally from Shelburne Falls in western Massachusetts, joined WBZ AM 1030 in Boston in 1964.

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