Charlie came to life today, ambling about town to promote Charlie Cards and the new air-conditioned Charlie service center at Downtown Crossing.
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By adamg - 8/22/12 - 12:35 am
Brian D'Amico and Mark Parkinston report a man was shot in the chest and shoulder shortly before midnight at 50 Tufts St. in Charlestown. He was conscious when transported to Mass. General.
By adamg - 8/21/12 - 8:11 pm
Around 11 p.m. on Saturday, police responded to Frazer and Lewiston streets to find three cars with bullet holes. Police found spent shell casings, but no injured people.
By adamg - 8/20/12 - 6:39 pm
Seems Bobby Valentine told ESPN:
I would do anything to change the numbers. I’d sell my soul.
By adamg - 8/18/12 - 11:14 pm
Shortly before 11 p.m. on Logan Way. Suspect is described as a black man, stocky, 5'6" and wearing a red cap and a red-striped shirt. He was seen fleeing toward Andrew Square and might be bleeding himself. Boston Police report the victim is expected to survive.
By adamg - 8/18/12 - 1:03 pm
From the BPL Leslie Jones collection.
Meet Count Gustaf von Frederick zu Brandenburg, of the German ruling class, who'd chosen to settle in Boston after all that unpleasantness with the World War and those Nazis.
Only it turns out the count was no nobleman, let alone one who'd had the bad luck to have his ancestral homeland handed over to Denmark after the war and his family finances tied up by the Hitler regime.
By adamg - 8/17/12 - 5:44 pm
The Dudley Square building is being turned into the new headquarters of the Boston school department.
Via Both Ends of Dudley.
By adamg - 8/17/12 - 3:17 pm
Five men, including a particularly and allegedly hapless South Boston man, were arraigned today on charges they tried to use the Internet to sex up Boston cops posing as either underage or legal-age prostitutes, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
By Anonymous - 8/16/12 - 1:47 am
Romney/Ryan: Reducing the deficit, one 65 year old at a time.
#p2@maddow@mittromney— Joseph J. Santorsa (@Marnus3) August 15, 2012
By adamg - 8/15/12 - 7:52 pm
A disquieted citizen submitted this photo of a toilet on Forbes Street and a question:
"New type of trash can in JP?"
By adamg - 8/15/12 - 8:20 am
The Boston Business Journal reports City Hall is talking about meeting with Uber at some point, now that state officials have said it's breaking state law by using GPSes instead of taxi meters.
By adamg - 8/14/12 - 7:12 pm
Bostonians tuning into NESN to watch the tribute in Baltimore to Johnny Pesky and, oh, yeah, a ballgame, instead got a test pattern tonight, followed by some Rolling Stones, followed by a blank screen.
UPDATE: The signal came back on just in time to hear Jerry Remy say "Buenas noches, amigos!" and watch Mr. Text Message get himself out.
By adamg - 8/14/12 - 10:38 am
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COMMONWEALTH vs. Neil ENTWISTLE.
SJC-10788.
Middlesex. April 6, 2012. -- August 14, 2012.
Homicide. Constitutional Law, Search and seizure, Jury. Search and Seizure, Emergency. Jury and Jurors. Practice, Criminal, Capital case, Motion to suppress, Jury and jurors, Empanelment of jury, Voir dire.
INDICTMENTS found and returned in the Superior Court Department on March 28, 2006.
A pretrial motion to suppress evidence was heard by Diane M. Kottmyer, J., and the cases were tried before her.
Stephen Paul Maidman (Stephanie Page, Committee for Public Counsel Services, with him) for the defendant.
Casey E. Silvia, Assistant District Attorney (Michael L. Fabbri, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.
Present: Ireland, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Gants, & Duffly, JJ.
GANTS, J.
By adamg - 8/13/12 - 11:22 am
The state court system today opened up registration for bloggers who want the same ability as mainstream-media reporters and photographers to record and report in courtrooms.
The court system's new access rule, which goes into effect Sept. 17, will, for the first time, grant citizen journalists the ability to record trials, arraignments and certain other proceedings on a routine basis:
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