Bite Size News, August 18: Hot In The City Today Edition

Today may be the hottest day of the summer. How are Bay Staters reacting to it? Well, earlier today, Bostonist happily wrote about city pools staying open so we can beat the heat. Mayor Thomas Menino knows how to keep voters residents happy during a heat emergency. Everyone is not as lucky. After Cambridge struggled to keep Veterans Memorial Pool at Magazine Beach open longer, the pool was closed today after a chlorine spill. Across the state, 21 of 27 pools run by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation are closed for the summer due to a lifeguard shortage.

In other news...

• The FBI's top cop in Boston said Boston Police officers need to carry assault rifles. Just in case. [Boston Globe]

• Boston ranked ninth in total personal income in 2008. [Boston Business Journal]

• The Feds said 28-year old uberhacker Albert Gonzalez and two others stole 130 million credit and debit cards from Hannaford, 7-11 and Heartland Payment Systems of New Jersey. The same thing happened in 2006 to TJX, BJs and other companies and affected 40 million credit card numbers. Gonzalez faces life in prison for the TJX hack. [AP via Boston Herald]

• Teenagers who were arrested in Foxboro at the New England Country Music Festival on Saturday spent a day in court. Some whined and some accepted it, but they all got their names in the paper. All for Kenny Chesney? [Attleboro Sun Chronicle]

• The Quincy 911 operators missed a call from a woman in labor. [WCVB]

• The Coast Guard rescued two Marshfield residents after their boat capsized today. [Boston Globe]