A couple weeks back, Molly noticed an unusual New England-themed cake at the Stop & Shop on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester. Cake Wrecks posted her photo today. You'll have to scroll a bit for it, but you'll know it when you see it.
File under: Slowly grinding wheels of justice? Several months after the US Supreme Court ruled evidence used against a Boston man was unconstitutional - and after Massachusetts courts began throwing out convictions based on that ruling - the man has finally had his own conviction overturned. Read more
Boston Police report arresting three teenagers - 19, 15 and 14 - on armed-robbery charges following an incident on Harvard Street in Dorchester around 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more
So this guy walks into the BJs in Dedham on Jan. 30 and walks out with an LCD TV - managing to escape the clutches of a pursuing detail cop. Then he returns the next day and does it again.
But he's a crafty fellow: The first day, he got away in white Camry. The next day, he jumped into a waiting green Camry.
Wonder if he's pals with this guy, who pulled the same stunt on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at the Target in Woburn.
The Greenway Conservancy, which oversees the land where the Central Artery used to be, yesterday approved a proposal to build a visitor-center "pavilion" for the Boston Harbor Islands national park on what is now a grassy field near Columbus Park. Read more
Boston Police report workers from the Franklin Park Zoo had to use a tranquilizer gun to subdue a coyote hit by a car on Howard Avenue this morning: Read more
I assume that's what the error message on the pay toilet outside the BPL main branch in Copley Square means. But then, I'm a Web geek, so I would think that. Fortunately, both toilets and WiFi await inside the building.
An East Boston convenience store that wants to sell beer and wine will have a tough job convincing city officials to overturn a longstanding, if informal, policy of limiting licenses to full-fledged packies and a few grandfathered establishments. Read more
254 Newbury St.: Center building, between Fairfield and Gloucester.
Surinder Singh, owner of Mantra on Temple Place, is looking to re-open a bankrupt inn at 254 Newbury St. Read more
Democrat Paul Sullivan of West Roxbury said today he is running for the 10th Suffolk seat being vacated by state-Senate hopeful Mike Rush:
As an ADA, I have fought day after day on behalf of victims of violent crime, parents seeking child support and those battling drug addictions. I have served the people of the Commonwealth with the utmost passion and tended to each individual with the proper focus and effort they deserved. I look forward to utilizing my work ethic and hard working attitude that was required of me at the DA's Office into advocating on behalf of the residents here in the Tenth Suffolk District.
Also declared: Kelly Tynan and Matt Benedetti.
The district includes West Roxbury, South Brookline and a small part of Roslindale.
Boston magazine has a long article on the public-radio war between WBUR and WGBH that I'm sure is just absolutely fascinating, but which I'm having trouble reading because it's just so full of mistakes, starting with the very first paragraph: Read more
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant licenses to three new eateries: Read more
The Boston Licensing Board tomorrow decides whether to let Famous Nick Varano open a bar on the South Boston waterfront. Read more
Pops Retaurant, 560 Tremont St., is seeking city permission to extend its closing hour from midnight to 1 a.m. Read more
Mike Ball appreciated the instant and brief artwork this morning created by his paper guy tossing his morning papers onto a snowy sidewalk.
Local 718 tweets firefighters responded to a fire that broke out around 1:30 a.m. at 8 Destefano Rd..
Its map might look something like this, drawn by a research fellow at Harvard Medical School.
Hat tip to Gin Dumcius.
Lance dissects a Red Mass. Group post.
A Proper Bostonian finds plenty to like in the Brookline neighborhood, but, in the end, decides she still likes her Back Bay more.
Liz Kelleher has some a bit of an idea of what Phoebe Prince went through before she died, but imagines it's much worse now:
... Because today, thanks to the magic of social media, the scrawled-on notebook paper (do kids even have handwriting anymore?) and the lunchroom tray seem like sweet, dull, old-fashioned weapons, like stone knives. Kids Today have cell phones and text messages and Facebook and Twitter to go after one another. The bad ones can jack straight into your brain, more or less. ...
A Suffolk County Superior Court jury today convicted Robert Iacoviello, Jr, of second-degree murder for the death of Revere Police Officer Daniel Talbot on Sept. 27, 2007, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
James Heang was also convicted, as an accessory after the fact to murder, the DA's office says. Both will be sentenced on Friday.
Two other people pleaded guilty last year to being accessories after the fact in the case, in which a group of gang members had a confrontation with off-duty police officers who were drinking beer behind Revere High School. Thinking the cops were rival gang members, Iacoviello fired twice, hitting Talbot in the head.
Dedham Police report a motorist who'd just made a withdrawal at a Dedham Savings Bank ATM on Elm Street was held up at knifepoint Saturday night - by some guy who then fled in a waiting mini-van:
As victim took money from the machine, an unknown suspect approached from the back to the driver side window. Suspect showed a knife and told the driver to give him the money and drive away. Suspect is descrbed as a white male approx. 5'10"-5'11" wearing a black wool stocking hat with yellow spots on the front. The victim did not believe the suspect had facial hair but he did have a black scarf which was covering most of his mouth.
Boston Police report arresting a Charlestown man in Roxbury on charges he tried to hold two people at the Orange Line station shortly after midnight today. According to police: Read more
Boston Police report undercover officers from the gang unit placed two armed teens under arrest at the Charlestown Housing Development around 6 p.m. yesterday as part of an effort to squash a rising number of gun incidents in the neighborhood.
BPD provided this account: Read more
French Toast Alert Level: High. Explanation.
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