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By adamg - 7/23/12 - 8:19 am

At one point this morning, dead trains and signal problems meant simultaneous delays on the Red, Green and Blue Lines. Ol' Grampa Orange Line, however, confounded the delay gremlins.

By adamg - 7/23/12 - 8:17 am

Barry Burbank prognosticates for today and tomorrow.

By adamg - 7/22/12 - 11:44 pm

Officers in District B-2 were kept busy tonight with gun calls. Shortly after 11 p.m., police responded to Alleghany Street for an armed home invasion. The four suspects were described as between 15 and 17, one armed with a rifle and two more with guns.

By adamg - 7/21/12 - 9:07 am

So all that talk of WFNX becoming a right-wing haven on the FM dial turned out to be just a ruse for Clear Channel's real intentions for the now former alt-rocker. Radio Insight reports Clear Channel on Monday will launch WHBA - the Harbor 101.7 - playing pretty much the same "variety hits" format as the old Mike 93.7. Because the Boston dial can never have too many places to hear "Don't Stop Believin'." Also of note: The format requires no live local DJs.

By adamg - 7/20/12 - 7:52 pm

Promptly at 7 p.m., with "Let's Go to Bed" by the Cure as the last ever song (was also the station's first ever song).

Kay Hanley tweeted:

Goodbye, WFNX. Thank you for teaching me about good music and changing my life.

The happiness + pride I felt when WFNX played Cleo's music still indescribable. You played a HUGE role in me & Greg even starting a band.

J.P. Dowd tweets:

By adamg - 7/20/12 - 2:45 pm

Joshua Rodriguez, familiar to visitors at Faneuil Hall for playing what he calls "junkyard jazz" on old buckets, will face charges for allegedly punching a man out at the Orange Line station on June 16.

By adamg - 7/20/12 - 11:41 am

Driving down the Route Formerly Known as 1 this morning, I noticed there's a new Dunkin' Donuts in the rear of the Vitamin Shoppe across from the Dedham Plaza - so basically on the same site where Krispy Kreme klosed the last of its Massachusetts shops in 2007. The new Dunk's provides welcome relief to people who missed the Dunkin' Donuts a mile back in Westwood, and who can't wait for the next Dunkin' Donuts 1 1/2 miles up at the rotary with Washington Street.

By adamg - 7/19/12 - 4:50 pm

A mother used her body as a shield to try to block a woman waving a large knife at her two young children in the West End yesterday - 19 years after the woman was acquitted by reason of insanity for repeatedly stabbing another mother in a Charlestown supermarket.

Suffolk County prosecutors say that Diane Huggins, 58, approached a 35-year-old Back Bay woman and her children, 1 and 4, as the trio walked along Thoreau Path around 2 p.m. yesterday - and then began swinging a large knife at the children. According to a statement by the Suffolk County District Attorney's office:

By adamg - 7/19/12 - 8:16 am

With the help of Clean Up BPPA, Chris Faraone does some digging into the finances of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association newsletter, which paid $1 million over three years to a fundraiser whose husband has had some issues with the law - and whose fees represent the bulk of the money the union says it was raising through the newsletter for scholarshipsw

By adamg - 7/18/12 - 4:21 pm

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By adamg - 7/18/12 - 2:17 pm

Bad cloud. Photo by Jayne HendryOminous cloud over Cambridge. Photo by Jayne Hendry.

By adamg - 7/18/12 - 11:05 am

Today's the 40th anniversary of a Rolling Stones concert at the Garden that almost didn't happen. On their way to the show, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards got into a scuffle with a photographer at TF Green Airport and wound up in jail. As thousands of hopped-up Stones fans waited at the Garden and Stevie Wonder played on and on, Boston Mayor Kevin White desperately worked the phones, finally convincing Rhode Island State Police that if they didn't release the pair, there'd be rioting in Boston.

By adamg - 7/18/12 - 7:48 am

The Globe reports the MBTA will use federal grants to bolster its camera network with thousands more cameras.

By adamg - 7/17/12 - 9:13 pm

Sure, there were hot trains and stinky people on the Red Line, and no doubt some Blue Line cars had the AC cranked up too high, but for sheer misery, nothing beat the Green and Orange Lines this evening: Dead trains, one rider who wanted to be dead and wandered onto the tracks, Red Sox fans, that single-door policy above ground and, oh, yeah, stations that appeared to stretch straight down to Hades. Herewith a report from what Alison Preston Baldyga dubbed the MBTA Sweat Fest 2012:

By adamg - 7/17/12 - 1:42 pm

The Boylston Street restaurant had to send a manager and a lawyer to the Boston Licensing Board today to explain why police on a routine inspection on June 9 found its various licenses in a binder at the hostess station, rather than prominently posted on a wall as required by law.

By Socializing4Justice - 7/17/12 - 11:40 am

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By adamg - 7/17/12 - 9:57 am

But you knew that. Still, here's the official NWS heat advisory and here are tips from the city of Boston (bonus tip: City Hall has some nice AC).

By adamg - 7/16/12 - 6:59 pm

Boston Police report what began as a hold-up attempt at Check Cashers, 1589 Blue Hill Ave. shortly before 7 a.m. ended with the failed robber firing shots at passersby after he had more luck beating and robbing somebody in the Farmers Market parking lot around the corner.

Police say Maurice Chase, 50, of Mattapan, waved a gun at a Check Cashers employee when she arrived to open the store. As she delayed for time - she told him she didn't have the key to the door - a store security guard showed up.

By bookpop - 7/16/12 - 2:20 pm

Seriously? In addition to paying attention to street cleaning hours, now I need to keep a Red Sox's schedule in my car before I park?

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