Highway toll foes fall short on signatures (Boston Globe)
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:17:23 GMT
Massachusetts voters will not get a chance to decide on a proposed ballot question to eliminate tolls in Massachusetts. The group Citizens Against Road Tolls filed two ballot questions to require the state to eliminate tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike, Tobin Bridge, and Boston Harbor tunnels by Jan. 1, 2012. The group’s spokesman, Michael Kelleher, said the group has fallen ...
Car may be tied to Lowell hit and run (Boston Globe)
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:33:43 GMT
An angry family called for swift justice yesterday in a brazen hit and run that seriously injured a 12-year-old boy as he walked to a friend’s home after school.
Boys soccer: sectional champs (The Weston Town Crier)
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:04:43 GMT
The Weston boys soccer team played its first tournament game of last week in the Division 3 North quarterfinals against Boston International, part of the Boston Public Schools system.
Boston Blotter: Gang Shooting in Dorchester (Bostonist)
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:19:55 GMT
Blotter siren -- A shooting that Boston police called gang-related inside of a Dorchester elementary school has brought massive police and streetworker patrols to the neighborhood. The 22-year-old victim was shot while playing basketball Tuesday at the John Marshall Elementary School. Police say that it was the second time the victim had been shot since leaving prison in May. [ Herald ; BPDNews ...
Boys cross country captures 7th place (The Sudbury Town Crier)
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:28:25 GMT
On Saturday, the Lincoln-Sudbury boys cross country team competed in the Massachusetts Class A State Championship Meet at Franklin Park in Boston. The course was drenched from the day's inclement weather, with puddles close to a foot deep in places.
'Big Brother' champ Adam Jasinski seeks release, claims entrapment (Reality TV World)
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:42:38 GMT
Adam Jasinski is apparently finding life in the big house a bit more difficult than life in the Big Brother house. The Big Brother ninth-season winner has filed court papers asking for his release from prison after he was arrested last month in Massachusetts for attempting to sell 2,000 oxycodone pills as part of a drug trafficking operation he allegedly operated, TMZ reported Wednesday.
Legislation hits brick wall in House (Sentinel & Enterprise)
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:31:02 GMT
BOSTON -- Education reform will have to wait. So will a revamp of the state's criminal-offender records system that has languished in the Legislature for months.
Street designation to honor late firefighter (Boston Globe)
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:02:23 GMT
BOSTON The City Council unanimously passed a resolution yesterday to dedicate a stretch of Huntington Avenue to fallen Boston firefighter Kevin M. Kelley. If approved by the city’s Transportation Department, two blocks of Huntington between Ruggles Street and Longwood Avenue would be designated Lieutenant Kevin M. Kelley Avenue. Kelley died Jan. 9 when a fire engine he was traveling in ...
Drug arrest for UMass-Boston student leader (Boston Globe)
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:38:46 GMT
The student body president at the University of Massachusetts at Boston was arrested and charged as an alleged repeat drug dealer last week after the Boston police Drug Control Unit raided his Dorchester apartment.
Senate nixes Mass. GOP death penalty debate (Boston Globe)
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:48:54 GMT
The Massachusetts Senate is taking a pass on a death penalty debate. Republican lawmakers had hoped to force a vote on a capital penalty amendment as part of a larger crime bill.
