Boston Police report that officers investigating the sound of gunfire at Broad Street and Surface Road around 2:20 a.m. found a man with a gunshot wound a block away at Atlantic Avenue and High Street. The man was taken to Tufts Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Four, John Carroll reports, adding that left the Herald no space at all to cover the Mittstakes out of London.
Steve Annear reports the white coats from DHS are back 'neath the streets of Boston with their fancy monitoring gizmos, takin' measurements and checkin' out the airflow. But don't worry - they're not spritzing people with killed bacteria.
When MBTA Transit Police see something now, they blog something - but so far with fewer puns than their counterparts at BPD.
Andy Metzger notes that the same week the T began collaring large numbers of fare evaders downtown, ads promising "Mischief is back in Boston" began appearing on fare gates.
Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports a man standing in the parking lot of the Brighton Avenue Hess station around 1:40 a.m. on Monday was threatened by a guy with a knife - and that police say they have similar incidents on file involving a man with a possible mental illness in the area.
The Revere Journal reports that during heavy rains, Lynn expunges torrents of sewage into the ocean, where the currents bring it straight to Revere Beach.
Over at Bostonography, Andy Woodruff muses on the Bostonish way we often have to have two sets of directions - one for getting from A to B and one for getting back from B to A:
Boston-area navigation is difficult enough on foot; throw in one-way streets and turn restrictions and you've got a vehicular nightmare. (Don't get me wrong: I'm as hip as the rest of you and almost never drive a car in town, but these problems occur once in a while.)
The Herald catches up with Hizzona, who acknowledges he can't legally stop Chick-fil-A from opening up, say, in the space to be vacated by the Purple Shamrock:
"I can't do that. That would be interference to his rights to go there," Menino said, referring to company president Dan Cathy, who drew the mayor's wrath by going public with his views against same-sex marriage.
The mayor added: "I make mistakes all the time. That's a Menino-ism."
The National Weather Service has issued a flash-flood watch for 4 p.m. this afternoon for eastern Massachusetts:
SUDDEN HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. RAINFALL OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
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Todd J. ELIA-WARNKEN vs. Richard A. ELIA.
SJC-11023.
April 5, 2012. - July 26, 2012.
Marriage. Comity. Statute, Construction.
COMPLAINT for divorce filed in the Worcester Division of the Probate and Family Court Department on April 15, 2009.
A question of law was reported by Ronald W. King, J.
The Supreme Judicial Court on its own initiative transferred the case from the Appeals Court.
Nicholas J. Plante (Russell Schwartz with him) for the plaintiff.
Karen L. Loewy (Bennett H. Klein with her) for the defendant.
Hobart F. Popick, for Susan B. Apel & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.
Present: Ireland, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Gants, Duffly, & Lenk, JJ.
IRELAND, C.J.
Once you start, where do you stop? How about an organization that already has outlets all over town?
David Bernstein, meanwhile, wishes a pox on everybody and everything on every side of the Great Menino Gay Chicken Wars.
The Boston Business Journal reports a variety of factors led to the better rating, but mainly the way the city's been putting away extra money each year to pay off its future pension liabilities.
OK, it's a letter from Pax Centurion editor James Carnell, who can't understand why people would object to the content in the newsletter he edits, except that they must be tofu-eating "cyber terrorists" and "thugs" and that people who object to "jokes" about Egyptian men having sex with the corpses of their dead wives are no better than the people who accused women of being witches in colonial Salem. Really, you need to read the whole thing.
Madonna, followed by Nirvana, with announcements about how other stations have "playlist envy."
Ed. note: They don't actually say "The Hahbah" - that would be an in-joke reflecting some actual awareness of the local market. Instead, they say "The Har-bore."
Over the Monster is, of course, talking about the Red Sox season, wondering whether we've gotten to the point where it's just a bandage-covered scab and it's time to just rip the bandage off in one fell swoop rather than suffering two more months of slow pain.
Cionaodh Mac Pheadair would be the guy to ask. Seems the area teacher is busy turning out memes in Irish.
The Atlantic reports the Boston area has a bigger economy than Greece - and we're not threatening to pull down the entire European economy.
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports on a terror raccoon that took over Hull and Sheafe streets before it died under somebody's porch last week, creating "a nasty, putrid state of air for days."
Dan Kennedy has some of the details on buyouts and layoffs at the Globe.
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