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WAREHAM — Police say a Massachusetts woman crashed her car overdosing on heroin while her 3-year-old son was in the back seat.Authorities found the woman in Wareham Friday afternoon after her car struck some bushes and a snow bank. Police say the 34-year-old was slumped over the steering wheel, and she had to be revived with the opioid reversal drug naloxone.The child was unharmed. Police say he was taken to a police station so relatives could pick him up.The woman has been hospitalized.

MALDEN  — Officials say a man was seriously injured on an escalator at a Massachusetts transit station.The Malden Fire Department says the man was riding an escalator at the Malden Center around 8 p.m. Saturday when his clothing and arm became stuck.First responders were called to the scene, and officials say the man was conscious as he was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital. The extent of his injuries has not been released.A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesman tells The Boston Globe he is unsure why the man fell.

WORCESTER, Mass. — A Massachusetts man charged with stabbing and dismembering his estranged brother is headed to trial.The Telegram & Gazette reports that opening statements in the first-degree murder trial of 68-year-old Michael Dowjat, of Holden, are scheduled for Monday in Worcester Superior Court.Prosecutors say Dowjat killed his 59-year-old brother, David Alan, in June 2014.Alan's body was found inside a 1960s-style bomb shelter beneath his Rutland home. Prosecutors say he had been stabbed more than 70 times, and his head, arms and legs were severed.

Flames shot through windows at the Quincy home on Harvard Street early yesterday morning when firefighters valiantly pulled a woman, then still clinging to life, to safety, authorities said.“They did the best they could, they got her out. It was just too late, unfortunately,” said Quincy Fire Department Deputy Chief Paul Griffith.“They rescued her. They started doing CPR on her. She lived for a while, but she died at Brigham and Women’s (Hospital).”

City councilors — alarmed by back-to-back storms — will hold a special hearing today on the threat of coastal flooding, after seeing waterborne debris flow through Boston’s harborside streets.

Boston police are searching for a suspect in a deadly stabbing yesterday morning in Dorchester.The stabbing victim, identified only as an adult male in his 20s, was suffering from apparent stab wounds when cops arrived to the area of Cushing Avenue in Dorchester, police said.Cops became aware of the stabbing about 3:01 a.m. and said the victim was suffering from life-threatening injuries.The man was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead, police said.

Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme’s lawyers want a federal judge to green light a trip for the jury on his upcoming federal murder trial to the private home in Sharon where prosecutors say promoter Steven DiSarro was throttled, as well as the site in North Providence, R.I., where his remains were unearthed two decades later.“Mr. Salemme does not seek to attend the jury view,” attorneys Steven Boozang and Elliot Weinstein stressed in the motion they filed Friday with U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs.

James “Whitey” Bulger’s prison commissary ID card sold at auction late Friday night to an anonymous private collector for an astounding $11,197 — but the emotional cost to loved ones of the mobster’s victims is immeasurable, the nation’s top anti-murderabilia crusader fears.“This person has some means to spend that kind of money. ... It’s a trophy — and it’s a trophy born of blood money,” said Andy Kahan, a victims-rights advocate for the city of Houston.

BOSTON — A cannabis convention in Boston isn't actually supposed to have marijuana present.But if you look closely beyond the cacti and other plants brought in by exhibitors to simulate the plant, it's been there all along.More than 250 exhibitors and 100 experts are descending on Boston this weekend to discuss the country's burgeoning marijuana industry at the New England Cannabis Convention.