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By adamg - 1/7/13 - 3:50 pm

David Bernstein reports Ed Markey could face competition in his bid to replace John Kerry from Rabbi Jonah Pesner of Newton, senior vice president of the national Union of Reform Judaism.

By Anonymous - 1/7/13 - 12:15 pm

[float=right]IMAGE(http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii195/ronslog/Joseph-Kennedy-III.jpg)[/float]WPRI.COM:

By adamg - 1/6/13 - 2:03 pm

This time the Walhberg involved is Donnie and the violence is supposed to be real.

It's probably too much to ask that the cops on this show intersect with the family on Southie Rules, but that would be an awesome crossover.

By Anonymous - 1/5/13 - 7:48 pm

[float=right]IMAGE(http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/dianaroo/scott_lively.jpg)[/float]Scott Lively, the founder of Abiding Truth Ministries, goes on trial Monday at 11AM for 'crimes against humanity' in Massachusetts Federal Court.

New York Times:

The lawsuit alleges that beginning in 2002, Mr. Lively conspired with religious and political leaders in Uganda to whip up anti-gay hysteria with warnings that homosexuals would sodomize African children and corrupt their culture. The Ugandan legislature considered a bill in 2009, proposed by one of Mr. Lively’s Ugandan contacts, that would have imposed the death sentence for homosexual behavior. That bill was at first withdrawn after an outcry from the United States and European nations that are among major aid donors to Uganda, but a revised bill was reintroduced last month.

Mr. Lively is being sued by the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda under the alien tort statute, which allows foreigners to sue in American courts in situations alleging the violation of international law. The suit claims that Mr. Lively’s actions resulted in the persecution, arrest, torture and murder of homosexuals in Uganda.

By adamg - 1/4/13 - 8:00 am

Ladies and gentlemen, your 1941 Stanley Cup winning Boston Bruins!Ladies and gentlemen, your 1941 Stanley Cup winning Boston Bruins!

The Boston Public Library's posted a set of Bruins photos from back in the day by news photographer Leslie Jones. Among them:

By adamg - 1/3/13 - 11:28 pm

Matt Karolian looked at a wall display at the Arlington stop on the Green Line. And then he looked closer.

By adamg - 1/3/13 - 3:10 pm

Boston Police report the Citizens Bank branch at 6 Ave. de Lafayette was held up around 10 a.m. by a man who motioned as if he had a gun and demanded money.

By adamg - 1/3/13 - 10:27 am

Talk 96.9 became Power 96.9 yesterday. And at 10 a.m. today, it became Nova 96.9, which sounds a bit more like Evolution 101.7, only with dance remixes of Ellie Goulding's "Lights" and oh, no, oh, dammnit, that stupid Rihanna "shine bright like a frickin' diamond" song! Good thing I wasn't listening with ear buds, because I would've ripped those things right out and probably punctured something important.

Boston Radio Watch reports:

By adamg - 1/2/13 - 11:39 am

Bob Nelson reports Jim and Margery signed off WTKK and the first thing the new Power 96.9 played was that insufferable Rihanna "Diamonds in the Sky" song (Oh, God, now I've got her gritting out "Shine bright like a diamond!" in my head and I can't get it out, help!).

How ever can Amp 103.3 survive? Oh, noes! Props to 103.3 for grabbing the Power969 Twitter name before Power 96.9, though, those little imps.

By adamg - 1/1/13 - 6:38 pm

David Rothstein reports a man was shot in the leg at 196 Greenfield St. around 6:15 p.m.

By adamg - 1/1/13 - 5:05 pm

So tomorrow's your last chance to listen to Braude and Eagan in the morning, at least at 96.9.

By adamg - 1/1/13 - 3:24 pm

Bicyclist at Back BayThe T did its part to encourage bike riding in 2012.

On a big system like the T (several hundred thousand riders on a weekday), you'd expect a certain amount of weirdness. You'd be right. Some examples from 2012:

By adamg - 1/1/13 - 3:13 pm

A little girl and her stuffed bunny garnered headlines around the world when bunny plunged to the tracks at Green Street and a CSA, dispatcher and train driver teamed up to stop the train and save Nummy the Bunny:

By adamg - 1/1/13 - 3:11 pm

Crash aftermath. Photo by Susan Zalkind.Crash aftermath. Note cluster of meter maids on right. Photo by Susan Zalkind.

A lot of angry people take the T, including a T driver in Kenmore Square, who angrily responded to a BTD supervisor who wanted her to move her bus by flooring the accelerator, hitting the supervisor and several parked cars.

More anger on the T:

By adamg - 1/1/13 - 10:03 am

5 p.m. update: Boston Police report arresting Brian MacDonald, 24, of Allston, for the murder of Tony Spaulding. MacDonald will be arraigned tomorrow in Brighton District Court.

By adamg - 12/31/12 - 4:46 pm

Red Line service was halted when a shirtless guy jumped on the inbound Red Line tracks at Andrew and went for a jog down the tracks underneath South Boston. He was never found.

A man wound up under a Red Line train at North Quincy.

A woman failed to stop walking at Broadway station until she fell onto the tracks:

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