According to a press release by Pembroke police, officers responded to a report just after 4p.m that a teenager walking along Route-139 with two friends was shot by a BB or pellet gun.

The victim is not being identified but police say the victim suffered a wound to the scalp and was treated at a local medical center before being released.

Witnesses told authorities they saw a white or silver pickup truck acting suspicious during the time of the incident.

Police ask that anyone who was in the area of Stop and Shop supermarket and Route-53 during the hours of 4p.m and 6p.m and may have useful information to contact the Pembroke Police Department.

State police became suspicious of two U.S Postal Service Express Mail packages that were sent out of Los Angeles, California to residences in Carver and Plymouth.

According to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s office, a K9 positively identified that both packages contained drugs. State and local police then set up surveillance at the Carver home and at the Plymouth apartment and watched as the Express Mail packages were delivered.

Search warrants were subsequently executed. A search of 28-year-old Joshua Amado’s Carver home resulted in the seizure of 300 oxycodone pills, cocaine and heroin that was packaged for distribution, and a shotgun.

Nolan Navedo,32, was inside the house and was arrested along with Amado.

Police then searched the Plymouth apartment where 26-year-old James Foster lives — a loaded 9mm firearm, a slew of different prescription medications, and cocaine were seized.

Foster, Navedo, and Amado are facing drug trafficking and possession charges.

Troop D Commander Major Anthony Thomas singled out younger drivers  and said they should put their cell phones away when behind the wheel. The few seconds taken to text or read a message can be critical in avoiding a crash, Thomas said.

Last year troopers issued over 3,000 tickets and made more than 100 drunken driving arrests, but Thomas was prouder that it’s been almost a year since the last fatality on Route 24.

In addition to a stepped-up police presence, the Department of Transportation will suspend all construction from Friday through Tuesday to make way for the revelers and vacationers that will flood the roadways.

29-year-old Jessica L. Johnson of Middleboro

Likening her to a “pill fairy” Middleboro Police Chief Bruce D. Gates said a 29-year-old Middleboro woman was busted with over $15,000 worth of drugs and $36,000 in cash after a two-month investigation by Middleboro Det. Kristopher Dees, Taunton police and Bristol County Sheriffs attached to the DEA Task Force.

On Wednesday detectives raided Jessica L. Johnson’s home at 156 Tispaquin Street and her room at Holiday Inn Express on Route 44.

Gates said they seized nearly 500 Percocet pills, cocaine, marijuana and cash. Gates said the raid put a significant squeeze in the spread of illegal pills.

They exchanged ideas to improve and expand on the shared effort already in place in the lead-up to 2020.

Ken Ashby is a consultant to Plymouth 400. He spoke about the growing collaboration:

“Really everyone knows about the sailing of a ship, the Mayflower, but now I see that there’s a bridge that’s being built to connect these two cities.”

And the importance of connecting via social media was emphasized by David Parlby, CEO of the Plymouth, UK Chamber of Commerce.

“Let’s make sure we’ve got a really good social media program set-up as part of the run-up to 2020 so everybody around the world can experience it and get a feel for it.”

Genevieve Jaeger owns the Cold Spring Motel and chairs the Visitor Services Board:

“I think that there were a lot of very practical ideas because they were coming from individuals from the education field, they were coming from the business field and people were really enthusiastic about making a joint effort not just for 2020 from Plymouth to Plymouth but continuing.”

The UK delegation continues their visit Friday at a State House meeting with Senate President Murray and then off to London from there.

Gary Alan Irving was sentenced Thursday in Norfolk Superior Court. He could have faced a possible life sentence.

His attorney says Irving will be eligible for parole in 24 years.

Irving was a teenager when he was convicted of three separate rapes in that took place in July of 1978 in Cohasset, Weymouth, and Holbrook. In one of them, he knocked the victim off of her bike and raped her repeatedly.

Irving, who lived in Rockland, fled Massachusetts in 1979 after a judge allowed him to return home to make final arrangements before sentencing.

When authorities finally caught up with him in Maine in March, he was a 52-year-old man with a wife and two grown children.

He was on Massachusetts’ Top 10 Most Wanted list for decades.

Abington – Parade at 10am starting at The Early Childhood Center

Braintree – SUNDAY Observance, 11am, at Blue Hill Cemetery.

Carver – Parade at 11am at Sons of Veterans Hall.

Cohasset – Ceremony at 1pm at Healing Field. MONDAY Parade at 8am starting at American Legion Post

Duxbury – Ceremony at 8am at Amercian Legion Post

Halifax – Parade at 9:30am starting at Shelby Plaza

Hanover – Parade at 10am starting at St Mary’s Church

Hanson – Parade at 10am at Indian Head School

Hingham – Parade at 11am at Veterans Memorial Park

Holbrook – Parade at 10am from Holbrook High School

Hull – Parade at 9:30am

Kingston – Parade at 10am starting at Kingston Elementary School

Marshfield – Parade at 10:30am starting at Marshalls Parking Lot

Norwell – Parade at 10:30am starting at corner of Main and Lincoln

Pembroke – Parade starting at 12:30pm outside Lucky Dawg restaurant

Plymouth – Parade at 9:30am at Shirley Square

Rockland – Parade at 10am at Summit St

Scituate – Parade at 10:30am at Town Hall

Weymouth – Parade at 10am at Jackson Square

Whitman – Parade at 9am from corner of Court and Whitman

But, there were no takers, so he came up with the concept of three car dealers locating on the property. But for that to occur, special permits will be needed. That process began at the 2011 town meeting when they changed the mixed commerce zoning district in which this property is located to allow car dealerships by special permit. “So we need a special permit from the Plymouth Zoning Board of Appeals for the car dealerships that are proposed. Because the property is in the aquifer protection district, we also need a special permit under the aquifer protection provisions of the bylaw.”

Planning Board members expressed concern about the acres of cars that could possibly occupy the property, based on requirements of three car dealerships. Since this was simply a conceptual plan for review by the Board, no vote was taken.

With Keith Luke sitting inside the courtroom, she was forced to relive a horrific day in January of 2009 when Luke allegedly knocked on the door of her Brockton home and forced his way inside. She thought she was opening the door for a friend but instead she was greeted by Luke, who was 22-years-old at the time.

She said Luke held her at gunpoint, handcuffed her, and then raped her.

When Selma Goncalves arrived at the house and interrupted the assault, she said Luke fatally shot Goncalves and then pointed the gun in her direction.

“I grabbed the teddy bear and I hugged my teddy bear and he was behind the couch [when] he started shooting me. The first shot was in my head. I pretended that he killed me,” said the victim, who’s not being identified in order to protect her privacy.

She was also shot in both arms and chest.

She said that after Luke left the home she watched as he got into his vehicle and gunned down Arlindo Goncalves, a 72-year-old man who was walking down the street.

The trial of Keith Luke started last week and expected to take several more days.

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Murray said his resignation would be effective June 2.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Murray said he had not been looking for a new job and that the chamber approached him a month ago about the opportunity.

Murray said his departure has nothing to do with an ongoing investigation into whether his campaign committee improperly accepted contributions raised by former Chelsea Housing Authority director Michael McLaughlin.

There is no provision in state law to fill a vacancy in the lieutenant governor’s office. Murray announced earlier this year that he would not run for governor in 2014.

Murray is a former mayor of Worcester.