Unfortunately for him, he didn't want to go back. But he lost the Register of Probate Democratic primary race to Patty Campatelli, 51-49. The results also signal, again, that Tom Menino's coattails don't extend very far.
Maura Hennigan staved off Robert Dello Russo rather handily in the angry Criminal Clerk race.
WBUR reports the mayor found the revised district-council map shoehorned too many minority voters into too few districts.
You'll be one of the few and proud, in today's generally low-key Thursday primaries. Some Boston-related races (all Democratic, natch):
Maura Hennigan vs. Robert Dello Russo, Suffolk County Superior Court Criminal Clerk. They hate each other.
Updated: Authorities now say woman was cut by tap handle, not broken mug handle.
A Medford man is due for arraignment today for an incident at last night's Madonna concert, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The Globe reports a federal judge found the "the treatment is the only adequate care for his serious mental illness, gender identity disorder."
Big Red & Shiny is coming back and is using Kickstarter to raise funds to create "a bigger and bolder Blog devoted to New England art & artists and a monthly web-based Journal with perceptive and incisive writing from around the globe." With art/music/dance in the South End on Sept. 29 and panel discussions on art writing and community at MIT on Oct. 27.
Earlier:
We Love Beantown gets ready to launch.
No, not our junior senator. Mike Ball reports on his own honorary-girl moment:
In particular when I chaired the board of a large downtown church, the woman who was senior minister called me that more than once by way of pointing out that my policies and proposals under discussion were female inclusive and aware. I grew up in an equality minded family...and this was a UU church, after all.
The Globe reports on efforts by the school department to prevent the fiascos of the past two years, which led to thousands of students getting to school late - if at all.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a former Superior Court judge is not entitled to a disability pension for the permanent psychiatric problems he says he suffered after receiving cartons of hate mail and death threats after Herald articles and a reporter's comments that were ultimately ruled libelous.
The Herald reports on the sad state of hydrants on roads around the Convention Center in South Boston and north of the Zakim Bridge.
In 1995, the House of Compassion opened its doors taking in people living with HIV and AIDS to live in a welcoming home environment. The House now faces closure, with a looming 30,000 in debt threatening the homes of their ten residents. Find out more about the House of Compassion!
Brian D'Amico reports both police and firefighters responded to Condor and Putnam streets in East Boston around midnight, for both a large outside fire and a slashing victim.
Boston Police report they are looking for two men for a sexual assault early Monday in Jeffries Point.
Police say officers found the woman, with facial injuries, around 6 a.m. in the schoolyard of the McKay School on Cottage Street:
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The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that two adopted brothers have no right to a share of their great-grandmother's estate because the legislature had no right to extend a 1958 law to treat adopted children the same as biological ones to wills written even earlier.
The ruling benefits the two men's sister, who is biologically related to Anna Bird, who wrote her will in 1941. She sued after the Bird trust's executor sent her a notice saying it would start paying her brothers shares of the trust because of a 2009 amendment to the law that applied it to all wills, regardless of when written.
The Track Gals dish on a new reality series that will feature a bunch of chefs including English and "Anna Boiardi, heir to the Chef Boyardee canned pasta empire." But, alas, it will focus on Manhattan - Our Todd is really more of a Nooyawka these days - so probably no dramatic recreations of the end of Kingfisher Hall, which is a shame.
John Carroll notes the emergence of Keep [city name] Weird movements, wonders why there's no Keep Boston Weird.
Isn't that why we have Allston?
The Washington City Paper reports the founders of a site called We Love DC are heading north next week with a new site called We Love Beantown. Think Bostonist (remember them?) but with better design and no icky crime news (don't worry, that's what we're here for).
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