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).
UPDATE: BPS tweets the typo is being corrected today, mere hours after officials learned about it.
The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative has posted a photo of a new sign welcoming visitors to BPS's Dudley Street Neighoborhood Charter School (at BPS, reading is fundomental).
Speaking of BPS, looks like it won't be entering the school year next week with a teacher contract. This just in from the Boston Teachers Union:
Proto-feminist crusader.
Somehow, in the crush of events, we missed the return of the Globe trend story based on no particular trend, in this case, a Wednesday opus on how expensive mixers are now a feminist hallmark. In case you, too, missed it, the Globe alerts us to "the strange allure of the stand mixer:"
A man was shot overnight on Oakhurst Street in Dorchester. John Zaremba at the Herald tweets this morning he's in critical condition at a local hospital.
Boston Police are at Columbia Road and Holden Street, where a man was shot around 12:45 p.m. Police are looking for a man in a red shirt who fired several shots at two men, hitting one.
Tom Menino and City Councilor Rob Consalvo, however, are aghast at a law that overrides the city pit-bull ordinance.
The Globe interviews both candidates for Suffolk County register of probate, but fails to explain why this office, which oversees the filing of papers in divorce, will and adoption cases, still forces voters to decide who should hold an office that has no policy implications whatsoever.
The Dorchester Reporter updates us on the latest action over the city council's new map for the nine district seats, approved today in a 7-6 vote. At issue: Whether the plan packs too many minority voters in too few districts.
Julie Burdan puts the question many have been thinking this summer:
Can someone please explain the phenomenon of people not wearing shoes on the T?
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