The Globe announced today it's hired former WFNX staffers Henry Santoro, Julie Kramer and Adam 12 and former program director Paul Driscoll to build an alt-music streaming service that will be available both through the Web and mobile apps.
A launch date and program details will be announced later this summer.
Boston Police rushed to 5 Devon St. shortly after 9 p.m., Mike Flynn reports.
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Boston PD by Fenway Park kicks over bucket drummer's buckets, tells him to stop. He keeps playing. Crowd cheers. Cops booed.
- Jeff Maker
The Library of Congress has a copy of a short movie taken on July 21, 1904 by Edwin S. Porter, a cameraman working for Thomas Edison:
The Supreme Judicial Court, which last year blasted lenders with shoddy paperwork, ruled today lenders who did not hold all the paperwork on mortgages could still foreclose - but will have to be more careful in the future.
The case involves a Roslindale woman who had a promissory note with one lender, but whose actual mortgage the original lender had sold to a company specializing in mortgage servicing. That company moved to foreclose when she missed payments.
Boston Police report arresting a South Boston woman for an alleged case of domestic violence that sent a man to the hospital in serious condition yesterday afternoon.
NotloB reports WGBH-FM is letting one jazz host go and scaling back the other's hours, possibly as it moves to add even more talk and news, because if there's one thing Boston needs, it's a second talks and news NPR affiliate.
Krol, wigless A Charlestown man who'd held up a Main Street bank yesterday didn't get far, thanks to a customer who ran after him and tackled him in the bank parking lot, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley says.
Krol is charged with walking into the Cooperative Bank - in a wig, sunglasses and ball cap around 8:45 a.m. - immediately attracting the attention of bank workers - and asking for "100s, 50s and 20s no alarm no die packs" and then walking out with the small amount of money a teller gave him.
According to a statement from the DA's office:
Boston's issued its first heat advisory of the year, for the possible triple-digit temps we might get over the next couple of days - and yes, one tip is to "avoid cooking."
The Boston Business Journal reports the T has some space in several stations (Back Bay, Forest Hills, Harvard, Alewife, North Station, South Station, Airport and Malden Center) it's looking to rent for retail use.
The Journal notes there are several prohibited uses, including the sale of tobacco, scratch tickets and popcorn.
Popcorn? T spokesman Joe Pesaturo says the T has had enough with popcorn because it attracts pigeons and "too much of it ends up on seats and floors of subway cars."
Biogen Idec has put together a Boston guide for the gazillions of biotech researchers and executives now exchanging plasmids serious biotech ideas at the convention center.
Ed. note: There are two local museums/exhibits that really should be in the Science Scene section. Can you identify them?
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today Secretary of State Bill Galvin did nothing wrong in 2008 by refusing to print election ballots that listed the actual Libertarian presidential candidate for president that year.
Local Libertarian leader George Phillies had submitted enough signatures to get his own name on the ballot that year, but after he lost the nomination to Bob Barr at the national convention, he asked Galvin to swap in Barr's name on the November ballot.
In a moral, if not practical, victory for Chuck Turner, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that while the Boston City Council has the right to pass rules on the fitness of members, it went too far in kicking the convicted Roxbury councilor out after he was convicted but before he got his three-year federal extortion sentence.
Ryan Sawyer has started a project to map all the streets in the Boston area that are limited to people with resident-only stickers or otherwise restricted. He's set up a map on which you can add restricted streets, says:
I completed the entire city of Medford (since the parking restricted streets were readily available on the MPD's website), but the other towns/neighborhoods like Boston, Allston/Brighton, Cambridge, etc are not as easy to track down.
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