News: Mass: September 2007 Archives

--Update: A little more on the death of Revere police officer Dan Talbot, who was shot behind Revere High. The DA's office just released a statement saying "Rumors of an arrest in connection with Officer Talbot's death are patently false." --A woman died yesterday of injuries she sustained when someone broke into her Malden apartment. A neighbor found Zhen Q. Xie, 62, lying "just inside the doorway" of her first-floor residence on Friday afternoon. The......

--Don't mess with the elderly in this city. They are not easy targets. A guy found that out when he tried to steal an old woman's purse at the Downtown Crossing T stop. On Wednesday night, Christopher Linehan, 29, of Dorchester, tried to snatch the purse of the unidentified 79-year-old woman. Neither party would let go of the purse, so Linehan tried dragging the woman to one of the black turnstiles. Good Samaritans started blocking......