J.L. Bell lays out the evidence that Revere's famous engraving of the Boston Massacre was actually based on the work of another artist.

Brian Christiansen posted this photo at 8 p.m. of the scene on Orchard Street in Medford;

New gas main installed today. Leaking tonight.

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A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Juan Figueroa, 25, of fatally stabbing John Austin following an argument on Austin's parenting skills, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced.

Figueroa and his girlfriend, the mother of Austin's young son, were picking the kid up from a scheduled visitation at Auston's Castle Court apartment on March 11, 2007, when Figueroa said Austin should "be a better father." That led to an argument that ended when:

The 5'11", 205-pound Figueroa grabbed the 5'5", 143-pound Austin around the head, produced a knife, and began to stab him.

Prosecutors showed Figueroa stabbed Austin five times, once through the heart. He then fled and was found in Westfield. He was convicted of second-degree murder.

Johnny Monsarrat, the Somerville guy who answers questions left on this prayer-wheel thing in his garden, today posts an answer to the following:

my mother thinks she has my dad trapped in the basement and paces around the empty house glaring out the windows