--Cambridge was the scene of a violent attack on a homeless man. Early on January 29, the man was walking with his girlfriend in Central Square on Norfolk when three men attacked him, and one of them stabbed him in the back. [Cambridge Chronicle]
--Although the incident happened in June, Dorchester is still reeling from an online video showing local Vietnamese American teens and young adults brutally beating a teenage boy and a teenage girl at Fields Corner. The video may have been pulled from YouTube, but the BPD is investigating. [Dorchester Reporter]
--Possibly 300 members of the BPD will be taking tomorrow off for the Super Bowl. The Herald worries about the overtime expenses for all the cops not taking time off, not to mention the fact that it might get rowdy after the game, win or lose. But the Pats have been in the big game before, so why should this be a surprise? [Boston Herald]
--Why does the most random stuff happen in Framingham? On Thursday, a man broke into the Greater Framingham Community Church, and ... oh, let's let the MetroWest Daily News explain: "A Framingham man broke into a church yesterday, ate food off the floor, played a piano, threatened to beat cops with a Bible and fought with them for several minutes before he was arrested, police said." [MetroWest Daily News]
--A union protest at the Back Bay Hilton got ugly. Demonstrators went into the lobby, and police were called to disperse them. [Universal Hub]
--Headline: "Hot Pot Comes to Brighton Avenue." People will be mighty disappointed when they discover the pot involved is shabu-shabu, not Mary Jane. [Allston-Brighton TAB]
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