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Brecht Palombo attended the auction for 441 Stuart St., an office building that sold for $37.5 million in 2004 with the expectation it would be converted into condos. It wasn't, and when the auctioneer started the bidding at $30 million, nobody offered until the price went way, way down.

A man charged with raping two women in the garage of the Radisson Hotel on Stuart Street was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail following his arraignment today, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

Jose Rivera is charged with raping one woman on April 19 and another early this morning, the DA's office says, adding the April 19 victim was a worker at the hotel going to her job. Rivera's probation on an unrelated assault conviction in West Roxbury District Court was also revoked.

Innocent, etc.

Channel 4 reports fires erupted from manholes this morning when an NStar cable failed a bit catastrophically.

Boston Police report emergency crews first responded to an exploding-manhole report at 5:38 a.m. at Stuart and Tremont streets.

As the Herald reports, Tom Menino is ready to blow his top over recent steam explosions out of pipes owned by Trigen-Boston.

Observations from the Underbelly writes that even when not emulating Vesuvius, the steam just smells bad:

... I happen to work near an especially active stinky steam outlet on Stuart Street. So active, in fact, that a makeshift chimney shoddily constructed of steel barrels has been set in place in the middle of the street. Now, in the winter, I would just stand there smoking my Marb's and complain silently to myself about the ungodly stench, but now that it's warm, i have to wonder, do we really need to be subjected to this? ...