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Josh Lanier

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jlanier@dailyvoice.com

Josh Lanier started his reporting career in high school for his local newspaper. Many — many — years later, he’s still chasing leads for compelling stories. During his time writing for newspapers, magazines, and online publications, he’s covered everything from murderers to mommy bloggers, but his most interesting story is always the next one.


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Police & Fire
Animal Tranquilizer Mixed Into Worcester Street Drugs Makes Them Deadlier: Police Animal Tranquilizer Mixed Into Worcester Street Drugs Makes Them Deadlier: Police
Animal Tranquilizer Mixed Into Worcester Street Drugs Makes Them Deadlier: Police Police in Worcester said they've seen a spike of a potentially fatal to humans animal tranquilizer being added to street drugs sold in the community.  Xylazine, a sedative, is showing up more often in tests of cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl confiscated in Worcester County, District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. The tranquilizer, sometimes called tranq, intensifies the effects of the drugs, but it's raising serious concerns among law enforcement agencies because of the potential for overdose.  That's because Naloxone and Narcan, the drugs paramedics use to stop an opiate overdose in a patient…

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Police & Fire
Mass Former Fed-Ex Driver Stole Guns From Packages, Illegally Sold Them: Feds Mass Former Fed-Ex Driver Stole Guns From Packages, Illegally Sold Them: Feds
Mass Former Fed-Ex Driver Stole Guns From Packages, Illegally Sold Them: Feds A 39-year-old Middleborough man stole three shipments of guns while he worked as a Fed-Ex  delivery driver and tried to sell them on the black market, the Department of Justice said.  Frank P. O’Toole was arrested on Friday, Aug. 12, and charged with possession of a stolen firearm, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts said.  Investigators said that from October 2021 through June, O'Toole stole three packages meant for gun sellers that had firearms insidee. He then tried to flip them on the black market, the U.S. Attorney said. But his buyers were actually undercover agents, au…

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Sports
WATCH: There's No Strolling For Somerville Dad Who Set World Record Stroller Run WATCH: There's No Strolling For Somerville Dad Who Set World Record Stroller Run
Watch: There's No Strolling For Somerville Dad Who Set World Record Stroller Run What dad bod? Ruben Sança didn't let putting 80 pounds on slow him down. Literally. The 35-year-old recently set a world record for the fastest mile ever mile pushing a stroller.  Sança ran a mile in 4:32.2 minutes during the High Street Mile in Newburyport, Mass., on Aug. 7, all while pushing his son Greyson, 5, in a pram. Click here to watch them break the record.  “[Greyson] is in the 99th percentile for his height [for his age], and he weighs 55 pounds. The stroller that I use is 25 pounds,” Sança told Runner’s World. “When you add that, you have 80 pounds …

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News
Boston Children's Hospital Attacked Over Misleading Video On Transgender Surgery: Fact Checkers Boston Children's Hospital Attacked Over Misleading Video On Transgender Surgery: Fact Checkers
Boston Children's Hospital Attacked Over Misleading Video On Transgender Surgery: Fact Checkers For the past several days, right-wing social media accounts have attacked the Boston Children's Hospital after a misleading video led viewers to believe doctors there perform hysterectomies on children as part of gender reassignment surgery. A fact-checking website says this claim is false, but the world-renowned hospital and its doctors are still under attack online.  On Aug. 11, the popular right-wing social media account Libs of TikTok tweeted a video from a The Children's Hospital video that features a doctor discussing the removal of female sexual organs as part of sexual-reassignment s…

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News
Delta Planes Collide At Logan Airport In Runway 'Fender Bender': Report Delta Planes Collide At Logan Airport In Runway 'Fender Bender': Report
Delta Planes Collide At Logan Airport In Runway 'Fender Bender': Report A Delta Boeing 757 bound for Los Angeles clipped the wing of another plane as it taxied to a runway at Boston Logan International Airport recently, and a passenger live-tweeted the entire event. Samantha Butler, a UCLA professor returning home from a conference on Friday, Aug. 12, told WCVB about the surreal experience after her plane clipped the upper tail wing of another Delta jet parked nearby.  "It was the strangest — like we were in rush hour traffic, and we had a fender bender," Butler said. "It was so strange. ... We’re taxiing out, and there is a crunch — just a crunching sound. An…

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Police & Fire
70-Year-Old Somerville Cyclist Killed After Driver 'Doored' Him: Police 70-Year-Old Somerville Cyclist Killed After Driver 'Doored' Him: Police
70-Year-Old Somerville Cyclist Killed After Driver 'Doored' Him: Police Somerville police identified the 70-year-old cyclist who died over the weekend after a parked driver opened his car door into the bike rider and caused him to crash.  Stephen Conley of Somerville was riding his bike on the Broadway bike lane just before 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 12, when a Land Rover's driver-side door flew open right in front of him, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office said. Conley suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash.  Responders rushed him to Mass General, but doctors could not save his life. Conley died on Saturday, police said.  Cyclist…

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Lifestyle
Author Plans To Walk Every Neighborhood In Boston For Good Causes, You Can Join Him Author Plans To Walk Every Neighborhood In Boston For Good Causes, You Can Join Him
Author Plans To Walk Every Neighborhood In Boston For Good Causes, You Can Join Him We all have those friends we've promised to get coffee and catch up with but can never find the time. Or those places in our cities that we always wanted to visit but just never get around to it.  One Boston author has decided to keep those promises and walk every neighborhood in the city for a good cause. Patrick Maguire will hoof it to raise money for Make-A-Wish Foundation Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Stride for Stride, and you can join him. But if you can't make it and still want to help out, you can donate to his GoFundMe.  "I want to rekindle relationships wi…

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News
Sinkhole Swallows Subaru SUV After Water Main Bursts In Boston: Report Sinkhole Swallows Subaru SUV After Water Main Bursts In Boston: Report
Sinkhole Swallows Subaru SUV After Water Main Bursts In Boston: Report A water main burst in Boston Monday morning, Aug. 15, sending a torrent of water down streets and into buildings in the South End neighborhood. The water caused a sinkhole to open up and swallow an SUV, reports said. This is the second water main leak in the city since Saturday. CBS Boston reported the pipe burst near Tsiremont Street and Northampton Street just before 4 a.m. on Monday. Tremont Street between Massachusetts Avenue and Northampton Street is closed as crews work to clean up the damage., Boston Police said. The water carved out a sinkhole beneath that intersection and caused …

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Police & Fire
40-Year-Old Boston Man Arrested In Chinatown Rape: Police 40-Year-Old Boston Man Arrested In Chinatown Rape: Police
40-Year-Old Boston Man Arrested In Chinatown Rape: Police Police arrested a 40-year-old Boston and charged him with the rape of a woman in Chinatown over the weekend.  Edwin Ramirez was arrested on Sunday night, Aug. 14, in connection with a sexual assault that happened near Hudson Street just before 5 a.m., Boston police said.  A Suffolk County judge was set to arraign Ramirez Monday on charges of aggravated rape and robbery charges, police said. 

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Police & Fire
27-Year-Old Worcester Man Killed In Hit-Run From Multiple Vehicles: Police 27-Year-Old Worcester Man Killed In Hit-Run From Multiple Vehicles: Police
27-Year-Old Worcester Man Killed In Hit-Run From Multiple Vehicles: Police A 27-year-old man died over the weekend, authorities said, after cars struck him several times while he was walking along Route 290 in Worcester.  The man was near Exit 20 around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13, when a vehicle, possibly a tractor-trailer crashed into him and kept driving, Massachusetts State Police said. Several other vehicles ran over his body after that and did not stop. Though it's unclear if those drivers knew they had hit a person or if they believed it was an animal, officials said.  Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene. Police are still…

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