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A bomb scare emptied out the Alewife T, a daycare, and a restaurant yesterday morning. David Toomey, a librarian at the Harvard College Library, lost it and said he had a bomb in his backpack. He said, "You might want to check the backpack." And, boy, did they ever! A daycare and a restaurant were also evacuated. Judging from transit police's comments at WHDH, the law went after Toomey's backpack: "We responded, we found... more ›

Bostonist first reported a few weeks ago about the rapist on the loose, who was posing as some sort of cabbie. After picking up two young women separately in Faneuil Hall, the "cabbie" took them each to the Alewife T station and raped them. Well, Boston women were put on edge after these two attacks, but now police have made an arrest. Kevin Bennett, a 33-year-old of Arlington, Mass., was picked up by police in Augusta, Maine this past weekend on a warrant unrelated to this case. After Bennett's DNA matched the rapist's, police brought him down to Massachusetts, where he was arraigned today in Cambridge District Court. Bennett has been charged with the rapes, kidnapping, and intent to murder. Bostonist would like to thank the men in blue for making our city streets a little safer with Bennett behind bars (and calming our nerves a bit). more ›

For many women in Boston, an evening of drinking with friends ends with hailing a cab and heading home for the night. Yet, no matter what inebriated state one might be in, police are telling all women to keep their guard up as a man posing as a cab driver has picked up two women separately in the Faneuil Hall area, driven them to Cambridge, and sexually assaulted them. In one case, the man picked up a woman in a dark-colored SUV, drove her to the Alewife T station, assaulted her and left her there. The second assault was almost exactly the same but the man was driving a white car that looked like a Boston cab. more ›