SmallCanBeBig lets you read about local folks who need money, then donate to them. Microdonations? John Connors set it up, the Boston Business Journal reports.

Milena Henao now faces deportation to her native Colombia for the hit-and-run death of George Azarian as he tried to cross Ocean Avenue on Dec. 31, 2006, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

Henao was sentenced to two concurrent one-year sentences, which means she would have been free to go since she's been in jail since her arrest on Jan. 18, 2008 in New York. However, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has said not so fast there; she is now being held without bail pending a hearing on her immigration status.

There were no witnesses to Azarian's hit-and-run death, but State Police investigators were able to enhance video from a nearby surveillance camera enough to identify the vehicle's make, model and year. Detectives then applied shoe leather to the case: They went around the area interviewing people who owned that particular model. Ironically, Henao was present during one of these interviews; she fled right after the detectives left.

The moment before George Azarian died:

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The Flaherty campaign Web site is still pretty much content free, but that doesn't stop Michael Pahre from compiling a list of Michael Flaherty's key positions - based on what he was saying when he ran for re-election as a city councilor at large in 2007.