--The Turnpike Authority is giving you a choice: Bitch about traffic during the day while they do roadwork, or pay up for it if it gets done at night. [WBZ] --If you were feeling icky about horse racing after the gruesome death of Kentucky Derby runner-up Eight Belles, you're not going to like this: Horse manure from Suffolk Downs has been running into a Boston Harbor tributary. [Boston Herald] --The Federal Aviation Administration is......

--Manholes are demanding attention! Two workers were injured in an explosion today in Quincy. [WBZ] --A comprehensive wrapup of the mess the Herald found itself in after its writer John Tomase popped the cork on VideoTapeGate. [Media Nation] --If you get luxury seats at Gillette Stadium, you better make sure you can actually pay up because the stadium will get that money from you somehow. [AP/Boston Globe] --Massachusetts high schoolers are flunking physical fitness.......

--Green Line B train goes on a rampage! [Boston Herald, WBZ] --Remember how last week the MBTA put out an alert after a passenger became concerned about a child's welfare on the bus? And how it turns out that everything was OK? Well, the family is considering suing the MBTA. These people clearly don't realize that the MBTA is broke. [WBZ] --If they can retire, MBTA employees are taking the money and running. [Boston......

--Mayor Menino hops on a bike in honor of Bike Week. [Boston Globe] --Local residents with family in China react to the news of the recent earthquake. [Boston Herald] --House Speaker Sal Di Masi is mad as hell at the suggestion that his ethics are a little shady, and he's not taking it anymore. [Boston Globe] --Two recipients of kidneys from a homeless man infected with LMCV, a rodent virus, have died. [Boston Globe] --Parts......

--They don't call him "The Cheeseman" for nothing. Carmen DiNunzio really wants to get out of jail and has offered a long list of conditions he'd comply to, including a promise to "conduct no non-cheese-related business in the North End." [Boston Herald] --A 3-year-old was found wandering the streets of Roxbury on early Sunday morning. The child told police he had forgotten to get a Mother's Day card. [MyFoxBoston] --Have you ever wanted to......

LeBron James may be on his way to joining the list of worst performances ever by a superstar vs. a Boston team. [Barstool Sports] Brookline police are offering a Rape Aggression Defense course in May. [Brookline TAB] New buses are rollin' out on the South Shore. [Quincy Patriot Ledger] Pulitzer-winning Globe reporter Charlie Savage defects to the New York Times. [Media Nation] We always knew those MIT kids were up to something. Two seniors were......

The weather forecast makes us cry, cry, cry. [Weather.com] If you're using tricky methods to avoid tolls, watch yourself--because the police are watching you. [WBZTV] Pangea Day works to promote unity and tolerance. [Pangea Day] Ooooooh oooh oooh oooooh ooh ooh oooooooh--Liv Tyler and Spacehog rocker hubby separate. We're just glad to have been reminded of "In the Meantime." [Boston Channel] Crazy Vermonters race around contiguous U.S. in just 106 hours. No word number of......

O Holy Condo, your fees are so expensive: Concord Baptist Church in the South End may be turned into some condos. We ask, where would Jesus live? [Boston Real Estate Blog] Madonna will be getting Boston all sticky with her candy on October 15. Ew? Yum? You decide. [Madonna.com] Women are getting more jobs. The only problem is the pay--still less than what men earn. [Business Week via Jezebel] After a crash on Comm Ave......

--Boston 911 operators are under scrutiny again because a call taker's error led to a delay in the arrival of police as a 76-year-old man was being beaten. [Boston Globe] --Smokers aren't too happy about the Senate's approval of a $1 rise in cigarette taxes. [Boston Herald] --Speaking of tax increases, Brookline voters approved a tax override. [Boston Globe] --In the "brass balls" department, the mayor of Newton, David Cohen, wants a pay raise.......

--House speaker Sal DiMasi has put the Ethics Committee to the task of investigating the alleged threat against Rep. Jennifer Callahan. The words "State House" and "Ethics Committee" sound funny when put together, don't they? [Boston Globe] --If the counter at the gas pump starts moving before gas comes out, you should complain. [WBZ] --A pug who had been doggie-napped in East Boston has been reunited with its owner. If you kidnap a dog......

--If you don't want to pay outrageous gasoline prices, take the T. MBTA ridership in the first quarter of 2008 is up 6.2%. [Boston Globe] --A Terrier goes rabid before finals? When the Mugar Library staff wouldn't accept her boxes of weird stuff as a donation, a BU student caused an evacuation by declaring she had a bomb. [BU Daily Free Press] --Another reason why we don't need to taunt Yankees fans anymore. A......

--Why are so many bats dying mysteriously in New England? No one can figure out why, which doesn't bode well. [Boston Globe] --The Natick Collection appears to be in trouble. Perhaps it's because no one realizes that "Collection" actually means "fancy mall." And the attitude of some of the owners, including one who said "We have to educate our customers on style" isn't helping. [Boston Globe] --At least one local blog is shocked after......

--The Greater Boston Food Bank needs your help. [Boston Globe, Greater Boston Food Bank] --Welcome back members of the 181st infantry regiment! [WCVB] --The JFK library received $2 million dollars to expand from the Irish government, as part of Bertie Ahern's visit. [Boston Herald] --Gas service in the North End and Financial District has been restored after the water main mess. [Boston Globe] --Some Harvard students decorated Dunster House with dead meat. Aren't Harvard......

--Carl Stanley McGee, the Patrick aide who was cleared of charges that he sexually assaulted a teen boy in Florida, is back at work, but the governor isn't taking his donations. [Boston Herald] --Find out which restaurants are open after the water main/natural gas mess downtown. [Boston Globe/fidoboston] --Stop the presses! Someone in New England is showing off a "MILF" license plate. [Barstool Sports] --Are wild turkeys gracing South Boston with their presence? [Platinum......

--Boston is a city that plays fast and loose with traffic laws, but the city needs money, so that's about to stop. The City Council is considering increasing fines for jaywalking and actually enforcing the rules. [WCVB] --After Caddygate and Drapegate and the casino mess, Governor Deval Patrick probably thought the media was going easy on his nemesis, House Speaker Sal DiMasi. But the free ride might be over. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald] --Norman......

--Were you affected by the water main burst and the subsequent natural gas problems? There's an emergency center open at City Hall. [WBZ] --Do you still have some champagne left in your Globe Buyout Bottle? Pour another one for Carol Beggy, who worked on the "Names" column. [Boston Phoenix Media Log] --A woman from West Roxbury allegedly encountered sorority hazing from hell at Hofstra University, which is in New York. [WCVB] --Harvard professor Walter......

--The Department of Social Services, whose name has come up more than once in investigations of the deaths of children in this state, received a D minus from the watchdog group the Children's Advocacy Institute. [Boston Herald, DSS in Bostonist] --Bad: A water main broke on Devonshire Street. Worse: The damage was so bad that repairs will continue through the summer. Worst: No hot water or heat until THURSDAY. [WBZ, Boston Globe] --Pour one out......

--Did any official-looking person root around in your bag today while you rode the T? [WCVB] --More reasons to panic while crossing a bridge. A chunk of concrete fell from the Long Island Bridge yesterday. [Boston Herald] --After freezing our buns off this winter, the weather tables have turned, and we're under a brush fire risk. [WBZ] --Marilyn Devaney, the Watertown City Councilor who was embroiled in The Case of the Curling Iron, got......

--For once, you might actually want to drink the local water, if you're passing through Southampton. [WBZ] --Take a look at your checking account. The state might have billed you not once, but twice, for your taxes. [WCVB] --Governor Deval Patrick has an Earth Day present for us: "Patrick highlighted a planned $5 million park along the Neponset River between Mattapan Square and Hyde Park." [Boston Herald] --WHDH General Manager Randi Goldklank was placed......

--Logan Airport is going greener by buying renewable energy credits, right in time for Earth Day. [Boston Globe] --When newsmakers become news: Local news stations are aiming their schadenfreude squarely at WHDH, whose GM, Randi Goldklank, got arrested for disorderly conduct at Logan Airport over the weekend. The police report indicates that Goldklank was, for lack of a better term, allegedly shitfaced. [WCVB, WBZ, Boston Herald] --Here's why you smelled a lot of pot......

--Leaks into tunnels may not endanger cars or trains, but Back Bay & South End buildings might collapse. [Boston Globe] --Investment dollars in New England from venture capitalists have reached their lowest level in a decade. [Mass High Tech] --The bidding for a slightly-jackhammered David Ortiz jersey has reached $69,500. Proceeds to benefit the Jimmy Fund. [eBay] --"If you feel something, say something." A man was arrested for groping a woman at the Dudley......

Mystic River is more muddy than mystic, receiving a "D" grade from the EPA at the Mystic Watershed Summit. [Somerville News] Traffic cameras might soon catch traffic offenders in Somerville, bringing in money and freeing up police to concentrate on other duties. Still, privacy rights proponents are uncomfortable with the idea. [Somerville Blog] The Sox are green with envy environmentalism. Players will wear green recycling logos (pictured) on their jerseys for Earth Day. [Boston Globe]......

--Meet the allegedly worst colleague ever: Revere police officer Evan Franklin may be fired because he is accused of running away after Officer Dan Talbot was shot in the head and killed behind Revere High School. He is also accused of lying to investigators after the incident. The officers were off-duty but had been drinking before the incident. [WBZ, background: Bostonist] --Yesterday, a fire broke out in a Brookline home on Harrison Street, and......

--Thanks to the recession we're not in, teens will have fewer summer jobs. And bored teens sometimes become restless teens whom no one wants in their yards. [Boston Globe] --Mayor Menino testified before congress yesterday that there needs to be "common sense federal action" to keep illegal guns off the streets. [Boston Globe] --The game of chess between Governor Deval Patrick and House Speaker Sal DiMasi continues. DiMasi wants to cut the $213 million......

--Total commuter hell broke out today with a tractor rollover that blocked the Mass Pike, along with dodginess on the Blue Line that left, according to one individual, "hundreds of people" stranded at the Airport T stop. [WHDH, b0st0n LiveJournal] --Speaking of transportation, an engineering firm has recommended the installation of 900 support anchors in the Ted Williams Tunnel to make up for the fact that some parts of the ceiling can't be inspected.......

--If you stop to help people on the side of the road, they might steal your car and leave it in Mattapan. [WCVB] --Parking space shortages and torpor converge in the suburbs where more dining & shopping spots are offering valet service. [Boston Globe] --A Brockton businessman Googled the graffiti on his building and found the taggers on MySpace. [WHDH] --PBS is getting on the "Car Talk" wagon with an animated sitcom to debut......

--150 members of Anonymous, the group that wears Guy Fawkes masks and opposes Scientology, was back yesterday to protest. [Boston Herald] --Welcome back, Army Reserve's 719th Movement Control Battalion! [Boston Globe, WCVB] --The Herald is launching a series on the mortgage mess. Today it focuses on an allegedly shady man, Dwight Jenkins, who was taking investors money in the hopes that fixer-uppers would be profitable when "flipped." [Background from Boston Herald, Jenkins profile from Boston......

--A three-alarm fire broke out at an apartment complex in Framingham yesterday afternoon. Three firefighters and three residents of the complex went to the hospital for minor injuries. [Boston Globe] --Two children died in a tragic fire in Holyoke on Thursday. Allegedly, a 6-year-old boy was playing with a lighter in his home, starting a fire that killed his 4-year-old brother and 9-month-old sister. [Boston Globe] --The pilot who was grounded after breaking away from......

--Bye-bye, Filene. The legendary store saw some "major destruction" today. [More photos at On Common Ground] --The Department of Social Services (DSS) is on the hot seat because they removed Acia Johnson and Sophia Johnson, the children who died in a fire in their South Boston home, from the home and their mother--Anna Reisopoulos, who had a record with DSS--a while ago. Yet the children still lived with their mother when the deadly fire......

--Everyone needs money, so it's not a surprise that Mayor Menino wants to increase fines for illegal parking in the city: "The largest increase will be for parking in a fire lane, which would rise from $40 to $100 under the mayor’s plan. Parking in front of a handicapped ramp would go from $50 to $100, while parking in front of a hydrant would rise from $75 to $100." [Boston Herald] --Former House speaker......