--The city of Boston is lawyering up big-time for an expected suit from Shawn Drumgold, a man wrongly convicted of the 1989 murder of a 12-year-old. Drumgold spent 15 years behind bars. [Boston Globe] --An elderly woman died of cardiac arrest in an overnight house fire in Newton that also sent three residents and two firefighters to the hospital. [WCVB] --It's official. Mike Huckabee is in the Boston Marathon, and he'll run as part......

--It's warm out. And it's heavenly, but it's a little scary at the same time. --John Tibbs pled guilty to the 1995 murder of Tennyson Drakes. He was sentenced to "9-10 years in state prison that will run concurrent with the 27-year federal prison sentence he is currently serving for another slaying." Another man, Marlon Passley, had been wrongly convicted for the crime and served four years. [DA's Office] --An 87-year-old man has died from......

--The recent toll hikes just keep on giving. Your cab ride from the airport into Boston just got more expensive. Now that the Big Dig no longer seems to be swallowing people (at least not at the moment), it is content with swallowing our money. [Boston Globe] --What the hell is up with trucks and Everett? First a truck tanker tips over, and now a dump truck plows into an overpass. [Boston Herald] --Investigators......

--What would happen if you threw a Christmas mass and the priest never came? [Boston Herald] --Looks like City Councilor Maureen Feeney (aka "MoFee") will be elected City Council president for another term. [Boston Globe] --Even though the family that owns the stores skipped the country, Alpha Omega stores reopened. [WBZ] --Since Filene's is undergoing reconstruction, the annual "Running of the Brides" is moving to Hynes Convention Center and will be held February 22. [Boston......

--The Office of Health and Human Services has allowed the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center to use skin-shock treatments for another year, even after the incident in which a prank caller caused staff members to shock two of the center's residents. [WBZ] --Yankee Swap turns Yankee Scrooge when two ex-friends fight over a lotto ticket. [Boston Herald] --The Paradise might be sold to the same guy who owns Lir and Live Nation. [Boston Globe] --Speaking......

--Former Boston City Councilor, Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, who probably enjoyed the best nickname bestowed up on a councilor, passed away at age 87. The Globe used many adjectives to describe him, all of which can be freely interpreted, such as "irascible" and "colorful." He opposed desegregation and, in the words of the Globe, "railed against feminists, gays, and immigrants." [Boston Globe] --In a piece from 1997, Yvonne Abraham reflects on Dapper O'Neil's unusual appeal to......