| Penske Truck Leasing Debuts New Facility
READING, Pa. — Penske Truck Leasing opened a new facility recently in Portland, Ore. Officials indicated that the facility is 14,000 square feet and employs 27 associates. It supplies rental services for commercial and consumer interests, offers full-service truck leasing and contract maintenance. The company estimates 50 leasing customers use this facility, with more than 400 vehicles at the site. According to Penske, the new store has such advancements available as wireless technology involved with diagnostic and repair software and General Electric fluorescent light bulbs with electronic ballasts to conserve energy. Additionally, there are three service bays, a truck-washing bay and high-speed fuel pumps. Executives noted the new plant cost $7.6 million to build.
HAVERHILL: Woman who left $1 million in cocaine in rented minivan will ...
LAWRENCE — A Haverhill mother of four will spend the next 15 years in prison, convicted of trafficking more than $1 million worth of cocaine found in a rented minivan. Lawrence Superior Court Judge Leila Kern said it was a tough sentence to impose on Nicole Paquette, 31. Until her 2006 arrest for trafficking cocaine, Paquette only had a car accident on her record. "It's not an understatement to say I spent a sleepless night. I did," Kern said during yesterday's sentencing. Paquette's 2006 arrest led to what police Chief John Romero described then as the largest cocaine bust ever seen in the area. Between the 21 kilos found in Paquette's rental car and another 30 kilos seized from a Methuen home linked to the crime, the drugs had a street value of $2.5 million, Romero said at the time.
Two murders and two life sentences won't alter one convict's ...
I go way back with the now ever-present pop-rockin' guys in the super-clean, Timbaland-tested, mom-approved OneRepublic. I mean, we both rep Colorado Springs, and I've spoken to the members a few times over the phone. OK, so we only spoke once. But it was for a cover story on how the band was pretty much the biggest thing to come out of the Springs since Nikola Tesla and evangelicalism. Very flattering stuff. Their parents even e-mailed and called me to tell me how much they liked it. True story! So you'd think I'd have some pull with OneRepublic's camp. Like maybe some free guest-list tickets to the band's upcoming and, shockingly enough, sold-out House of Blues show? Just so I could stop in and say hi? Nope. Apparently these guys didn't get how much I've done—out of the sheer goodness of my heart, no less—just to help out their careers.
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