Best of OMG PD: 2012's Strangest Police Calls

We've highlighted some unusual incidents that made their way into police logs this year.

Your local Patch editor spends many hours compiling police logs so you know what's going on in your community. Your editors have also, in many cases, been left scratching their head when reading some of these logs. Public safety news always gives us plenty of fodder for our weekly column, "OMG PD." Short for "oh my gosh," OMG PD highlights the wacky, the funny, the unusual and just plain weird. For your amusement, we've compiled five of the wackiest stories that have arisen from MetroWest area police logs in 2012. In no particular order:  1) The car-fleeing mom and daughter duo A Sherborn resident in September reported that she and her daughter had just been leaving in their car when they heard what they believed to be a person in the …

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Week in Review

Year in Review: Looking Back at Westwood in 2011

A roundup of what went down in Westwood this year.

Welcome to 2012, Westwood Patch readers! What a year 2011 was. From the end of Osama Bin Laden in May to Tropical Storm Irene in August to an unseasonable snow storm in October, there was no shortage of interesting news in Westwood.  And there will be plenty more where that came from in the year ahead.  Instead of the normal Week in Review this week, we've decided to point you to a bunch of recent features highlighting what took place in 2011. Find each feature below, and simply click on the link to learn more:

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