With somebody else's placard, Channel 4 reports.

Samantha Star snapped a photo of some burning Green Line tracks in Coolidge Corner around 6 p.m. today.

Location

Boston Police report that officers responding to a 4:45 a.m. call from Wyvern Street found two guys a couple blocks away on Hyde Park Avenue acting suspiciously.

And now the state loses out on $145 million in federal stimulus funds; money was to have gone to a fancy-shmancy Silver Line extension through Roxbury and Mattapan that state officials tried to foist on the neighborhoods as a fait accompli.

Lawmakers ask state to withdraw 28X proposal (from the Dorchester Reporter a couple weeks ago).

Steve Poftak is sad.

Earlier:
Gloria Fox, Byron Rushing objected to bus cramming.

They put up trees gaily decorated with lobster traps. Good Morning Gloucester is running a completely impartial poll that lets you pick the best one: "The Fantastic Majestic Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree" or "The Crappy Unimaginative Maine Lobster Trap Tree."

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reports a lawyer has filed "the first libel and defamation lawsuit brought on behalf of a herd of goats."

In the suit, filed in federal district court in Springfield, the herd of Nigerian dwarf goats alleges continued baad behavior on the part of two rival breeders - who are also judges at goat shows - including repeatedly bleating out rumors that the goats are "impure." Not for mutton, one of the allegations was that the goats were being bred with larger goats to produce offspring with bigger udders, which apparently judges, if not male goats, find more attractive. The lawsuit also gruffly charges the two butted heads with the herd's breeder at a show in Grafton, accusing him of being a cross dresser.

Photo by Joe Stammers. Used under this Creative Commons license.

Please, Mr. Patrick, get your schedulers to get on the ball so you can see the reporters and editors at GateHouse New England before March 9:

Brian Lee faces life without parole if convicted of the 2006 murder of his father, who had taken out several restraining orders against him in the years before his death. More from Channel 4.

Boston Police report a senior citizen who'd just taken money out of a Bank of America ATM at 221 Mass. Ave. had some guy walk up behind him and grab his cash.

Adam Sawallich, 24, of Boston, was arrested yesterday on Washington Street on a charge of unarmed robbery on a person over 65. He was picked up with a friend who matched the description of another man the victim saw running away, but who was not charged yesterday.

Innocent, etc.

The Globe reports the state will use $30 million in federal stimulus funds - plus another $30 million that's been sitting in a Big Dig account for years - to erect a Colossus-size statue of Kraft bestriding Boston Harbor build long promised footbridges across and near the mouth of the Charles River, by the Zakim Bridge.

The Globe doesn't say if any of that money will go toward the skate park that state planners have been promising is about a year away for roughly 10 years now.

Would I make that up?

Via Geoff Edgers.

Pretty please? With jimmies on top?

Rob Sama expresses disgust for the apparent bloodsucking leech who sucked all the money out of the chain and then dumped its sodden remains on a bankruptcy judge, adds:

... I think that the best hope for the brand is that somebody buys it out of bankruptcy court. I think it's unlikely that a PE firm would emerge to do that, but either a wealthy New Englander might, or the remaining franchisees may want to band together to save the brand. Or maybe even Hood might be convinced to step in. Or a local chef like Barbara Lynch who just opened a high-end restaurant modeled on Brighams. ...

Ed. daydreaming note: What about the hospital? Surely there's some synergy there?

District A-7 reports a man entering his Princeton Street apartment Wednesday night was robbed at gunpoint. He told police:

[A]n unidentified male speaking Spanish stated you just dropped your keys. The victim stated that he replied "no I didn't" and entered his residences' hallway. ... The victim then stated that the suspect followed behind him and pushed him against a wall. He then pushed the suspect away and noticed that the suspect was holding a black gun. The suspect then went into the victim's pockets and took a cell phone charger and fled down Saratoga Street.

District A-7 reports two men were arrested after officers found a man lying on the ground with stab wounds on the Greenway near Gove and Bremen streets around 3 p.m. on Tuesday. The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-fatal injuries. Names of the two men, charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, were not released.

The Herald reports Republican Jack E. Robinson was outside Park Street last night, calling for the feds to pour enough money into the MBTA to eliminate fares and to spend $3 billion on a bullet train to Springfield.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today threw out a New Bedford man's conviction on a charge of illegal gun possession because his similarity to the description of a gun-waving man in an anonymous 911 call was not enough to warrant ordering him out of his car and searching it.

The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports the president of the Jamaica Plain Business and Professional Association got nabbed for using his pen to complain about scooters illegally parked on Centre Street connected to ads for a South Boston scooter company.

Is there a collection for the guy?

On bikes.

The Herald reports, among other things, his court case was continued until next month.

WBUR reports that yesterday's announced drop in statewide unemployment numbers - the first in two years - actually masks a record number of underemployed people, i.e., people who have taken part-time jobs because they can't find full-time work.

Paul Levy notes New York's equivalent of the MTA is emblazoning the word "optimism" on its equivalent of CharlieTickets, wonders what the T could put on our passes:

Still waiting

The Outraged Liberal sums up the current contretemps on Beacon Hill.

More than 40 cool photos of the neighborhood - $18.

Via Jim.

Tall Asian Dude reports on his experiment with turning all those nuts in his yard into flour for pancakes:

... [A]fter investing several hours of selecting, hammering, shelling, sorting, skinning and sorting again and then ending up with maybe a cup of acorn meat is making me reconsider. I may go through one more container of sorted acorns just to have enough to bake or cook something, but I think this is going to be a "learning experience" kind of project. (i.e. I've learned that I never want to do this again, unless maybe if I'm trying to torture some hypothetical future children with their own "learning experience" or something.) ...

I'll be upgrading the software on Sunday (yes, dear regulars, finally), so if you can't connect to the site in the afternoon or parts of the site disappear, that's why - you know how delicate surgery is (and yes, I've learned my lesson: Back up the whole database before I do anything! Not that anything will go wrong, unless, of course, it does).

Tiny taste of the new look: