Bite Size News, August 14: Cabs, Kennedy, Skip Gates Edition

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  • Cops and cabbies have something in common. Neither seem very concerned with the new city rule that bans cell-phone use by cabbies while driving. [Boston Herald]
  • US District Court Judge William G. Young ruled Boston exceeded its authority by trying to force cabbies to convert to hybrid cars by 2015. [Boston Globe]
  • Hundreds of people celebrated the life of Eunice Kennedy Shriver at a funeral Mass on Cape Cod Friday. [WCVB]
  • The mugshot of Harvard's Skip Gates is now art in Central Square in Cambridge. [Cambidge Chronicle]
  • A Watertown resident was found dead in a Conway, New Hampshire holding cell after an apparent suicide. [WCVB]
  • Later this month, the first Sonic Drive-In in New England will open in Peabody. [Boston Herald]
  • Bostonist would love to know who actually believed that the pure craziness of the latest YouTube scam video was real. [MyFoxBoston.com]

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