LYNN (CBS) — A teacher in Lynn has received an exciting recognition — Tymond Tran was named one of Amazon’s teachers of the year. Tran teaches computer science at Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Lynn. This year, Amazon named him a Future Engineer Teacher of the Year. The award is $30,000, $25,000 goes to the school and the teacher gets to keep $5,000. “I was incredibly surprised. I had no idea it was coming, and it turned out to be really wonderful because it just so happened to be the week that our superintendent of the district was in,” Tran said. “So he was actually the one that came in ..read more

LYNN (CBS) — The suspect who led police on a wild chase from Lynn to Swampscott Friday night is now facing multiple gun and motor vehicle charges. Lynn Police said Saturday that Angel Diaz, 19, from Salem is being charged with carrying a firearm without a license, failure to stop for police, and several motor vehicle charges. He will be arraigned on Monday. According to Lynn Police, officers approached a suspect wanted in a firearm investigation after he pulled over in the area of Pinkham and Violet Street. He started driving away, striking a Lynn cruiser and an officer on foot, police said. T ..read more

SWAMPSCOTT (CBS) – A suspect is in custody after a police chase that started in Lynn ended in Swampscott Friday afternoon. I-Team sources say the suspect had a gun and hit multiple Lynn Police cruisers. According to Lynn Police, officers approached a suspect wanted in a firearm investigation after he pulled over in the area of Pinkham and Violet Street. He started driving away, striking a Lynn cruiser and an officer on foot, police said. That officer was not taken to the hospital. A second Lynn officer was struck by the suspect’s car in Swampscott. That officer was taken to the hospital with m ..read more

LYNN (CBS) — A 20-year-old man is dead after a shooting in Lynn early Sunday morning. Police were called to the Lynn English High School around 12:50 a.m. The victim’s identity has not been released but he is from Salem, sources told the WBZ-TV I-Team. According to sources, the shooting isn’t related to the school. No arrests have been made at this time but police have strong leads. Police and the Essex County District Attorney’s Office are investigating ..read more

LYNN (CBS) – Two people were shot in Lynn early Thursday morning. Police were called to Cedar Street just after 4 a.m. and found a 21-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man wounded. Both were taken to Salem Hospital with what police described as “non-life-threatening injuries.” Bullet holes could seen in an SUV and a home on the street. There were also several shell casings on the ground. A woman who lives on the street said she heard the shooting. “It rang through, it was like pop, pop, pop, pop. That’s how it was,” Terri Smith told reporters. There have been no arrests. There are bullet holes ..read more

LYNN (CBS) — A multi-family home on Broadway Street in Lynn was destroyed by a fire Saturday. Flames could be seen bursting from the home around noon. All of the residents inside the home, which included seven adults and four children, made it out safely. One Lynn firefighter was treated for “exhaustion-type symptoms.” The fire department said the flames also created a multi-acre brush fire behind the building. Lynn Fire Chief Stephen L. Archer told WBZ-TV that low water pressure from the hydrants in the area affected the efforts to put out the fire. “We had initiated a good exterior attack on ..read more

LYNN (CBS) – Two local sisters are honoring their grandfather through food. Vanessa and Casey White grew up with their grandfather’s pierogies in western Massachusetts but as they got older and went to school in Boston, they couldn’t find that same pierogi comfort zone anywhere else, so they did something about it. They started their own business, Jaju Pierogi. “So Jaju is the phonetic spelling of grandfather. So in polish it is Dziadziu,” Vanessa told WBZ-TV. “He had a store since the 50’s. So, when we were young we always had his pierogies. We would go to my grandparents’ house and we would ..read more

LYNN (CBS) — A 19-year-old woman will be charged with several crimes after crashing into three cars at the MBTA bus garage in Lynn. MBTA Police say she was speeding when she tried to pass a car on Western Avenue. The woman apparently lost control, careening into the garage and causing significant damage to three unoccupied cars. Then, investigators discovered that the driver had a falsified license, and they found several unopened alcohol nip bottles in the teen’s car. She will be summoned into court for operating to endanger, speeding, and forging a driver’s license. Her name was not made pub ..read more

BOSTON (CBS) – A Lynn snowplow driver interviewed by WBZ-TV during Saturday’s blizzard is being honored by Thomas’ English Muffins. Andy Barr was describing how easy the snow was to move. “It’s like bread and butter,” Barr said in an interview with WBZ’s Anna Meiler. “Like a Thomas’ English Muffin with some jam. It spreads nice and gets all the nooks and crannies. It’s powder. It’s easy.” Snowplow driver Andy Barr honored by Thomas’s English Muffins (WBZ-TV) Thomas’ named Barr the Official Snowplow of Thomas’ English Muffins. The company promised the city of Boston free English muffins to ke ..read more

LYNN (CBS) — A Lynn man says a snowbank blocked his street so he was unable to get home on Saturday night. Lloyd Leslie Brown, who lives on Beacon Hill Avenue, came home late after working a double shift and was forced to spend the night in his truck. Work crews plowed the main Beacon Hill Avenue but, in the process, blocked in Brown and his four neighbors who also live off of Beacon Hill Avenue, even though the street name does not change. Brown’s road could be mistaken for a driveway. Brown said the snowbank was almost as tall as he is. “It was massive.” “I spent the night in my truck on the ..read more