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Woman pistol whipped in Dorchester home invasion

BPDCrimelog reports Boston Police are looking for two men for an incident at 10 Vesta Rd. this evening.

One of the men was described as black, 24, with braids and wearing cargo pants and a white polo shirt.

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 18:40
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When Medford Street in Malden grows up,

it wants to be Storrow Drive.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/24393401/deta...

Saw the aftermath of this incident coming in on the 8:06 commuter train from Wakefield - it was not pretty. And the Haverhill/Reading line commuter rail trains were running 15 to 20 minutes late for a good part of the morning, as they had to go extra slow to avoid hitting any of the engineers inspecting the bridge.


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Yet another Dunkin' Donuts held up at gunpoint

Alleged robberSaugus Police report they are looking for a guy who held up a Dunkin' Donuts in their town on July 23. The robber showed a small gun and got away with an unspecified amount of cash.

Earlier:
Dunkin' Donuts held up at gunpoint in Natick and on Causeway Street.


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E line being re-designated?

Yesterday, I got two alerts about Heath Street service being terminated at Brigham Circle.

Both messages (reporting the incident and the all clear) referred to the service as the "The Green Line H Line". Interesting slip up, given that "E" isn't next to "H" on the keyboard.


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One injured in East Boston gang shooting

Boston Police report a gangbanger's pals deserted him like fleeing rats when officers happened upon him shooting at a rival group around 1 a.m. yesterday at Gove and Havre streets.

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Court says property owners better do an extra good job of clearing snow and ice this winter

The Supreme Judicial Court today threw out a longstanding Massachusetts legal doctrine that protected property owners against injury claims when they could show the slippery white stuff was "a natural accumulation."

The court made its decision in a case involving a man who slipped and fell on some ice outside a Target store at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers in 2002 - and who then sued Target and its snow-removal contractor.

Lower courts had rejected the man's suit, saying Target and the contractor had cleared the path and it wasn't their fault that ice had formed on the path, whether from falling off a load of ice dumped on a median or through melted snow that had refrozen.

But the SJC today overturned the basis of that logic, an 1883 case involving a woman who'd slipped on some ice on her tenement steps, saying the logic used to divide "natural" and "unnatural" accumulations of ice or snow was just too tortured, and flies in the face of rulings on other landlord-liability issues, such as banana peels:

We do not accept this rationale where a property owner knows or has reason to know that a banana peel has been left on a floor by a careless customer; we have long held that the property owner has a duty to keep the property reasonably safe for lawful visitors regardless of the source of the danger.

In sum:

We now discard the distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and ice, which had constituted an exception to the general rule of premises liability that a property owner owes a duty to all lawful visitors to use reasonable care to maintain its property in a reasonably safe condition in view of all the circumstances.

Complete ruling.


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Murder at a Roxbury park

The Globe reports a 19-year-old male was found shot to death near the tennis courts at Washington Park on Martin Luther King Boulevard l

Sat, 07/24/2010 - 22:11
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Pro-life group: Tim Cahill bamboozled us!

With Tim Cahill insisting he hasn't changed his pro-choice stance on abortion, Mass. Citizens for Life is left trying to figure out how its PAC came to endorse him (still, worth noting that Tim hasn't restored abortion rights as one of his core values.).


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Yesterday was make-your-own festival day in Allston

Jillian Sara Santella took some photos at the Allston DIY Fest in Ringer Park.

Via Allston City Limits.


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