Jim Sullivan previews "Viva! Saint Agrippina," a movie about the Saint Agrippina Benefit Society, which holds one of the North End's annual feasts, by a guy better known for his horror movies. Screens July 22 at the Stuart Street Playhouse.

Is somebody to blame for yesterday's flash floods? Where Blue Mass. Group sees a complete failure of local government, Red Mass. Group sees too much rain on too dry land in too short a period.

Twice a year, the president sends a wreath to the Church of the Presidents in Quincy, to commemorate the births of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. David Parsons attended the July 9th celebration of the life of John Quincy Adams. A Naval honor guard and various dignitaries and Adamses also attended.

Copyright David Parsons. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.

A woman who got into an all-out fight with an acquaintance at a Dorchester nail salon on April 10 has been indicted for the death of the acquaintance's six-month-old fetus.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges that after Ayanna Woodhouse and the other woman got into a disagreement while having their nails done at Tulip Nail, 408 Neponset Ave, Woodhouse punched the woman in the face, knocking her to the ground, according to the DA's office. Then, prosecutors say, Woodhouse kicked and punched the woman repeatedly, several times in the stomach.

The mother was later transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where the baby girl was delivered in an emergency Cesarean section. The baby did not survive. After autopsy, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the cause of her death to be placental abruption - a detachment of the placenta from the uterus - due to maternal trauma.

The DA's office says the manslaughter charge is warranted because the baby could have survived if not for the trauma.

Prosecutors say Woodhouse's cousin was the father of the baby.

Woodhouse is expected to be arraigned tomorrow on manslaughter and assault charges in Suffolk Superior Court.

Innocent, etc.