News Nearby: Winchester Native Killed in Libya Attack

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WINCHESTER—A Winchester native was identified as one of the four Americans killed in Libya Wednesday.

Glen Doherty, 42, was working for a private security company when he was killed with U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens in the American consulate in Benghazi, according to Boston.com.

The family was notified Wednesday afternoon of Doherty's death.

Doherty's sister, Katie Quigly, told Boston.comher brother had previously been a Navy SEAL where he was trained as a sniper and medical corpsman and left the service four years ago to provide security for American officials overseas.

MEDFORD—The Massachusetts Department of Transportation Board of Directors, meeting in Somerville, authorized a $45 million contract for design of the Green Line Extension.

"This is actually beginning to put meat on the bone," said MassDOT Secretary Richard Davey after the vote, speaking about how the design effort will progress with the contract in place. "It's a great step forward for the project today," he said.

The contract, awarded to AECOM Technical Services, Inc. and HNTB Corporation, is for advanced preliminary and final design services on the Green Line Extension.

WAKEFIELD—A warrant article that could have led to the establishment of a medical marijuana dispensary in Wakefield is no longer expected to be on the Nov. 15 town meeting ballot.

Earlier this week, about that initiative and one advanced by her and other town officials, which would re-draw zoning laws to effectively ban medical marijuana dispensaries in town.

SOMERVILLE—Somerville asked the state legislature, which imposes caps the number of liquor licenses each city and town can issue, to do away with the cap in Somerville.

The state legislature said no.

That's according to proceedings from a Somerville Board of Aldermen meeting held Thursday night.

Instead of granting the city unlimited liquor licenses, the legislature asked Somerville to come back with an amended request, known as a home rule petition. Somerville's new home rule petition formally asks the legislature to allow 10 new citywide liquor licenses.