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The USS Constitution will continue its traditional cannon salutes to the chagrin of Charlestown's sensitive newcomers. [Boston Herald]
Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day will still be Suffolk County holidays next year. [Boston Channel]
One million H1N1 vaccine doses have arrived in the Bay State. "Please, sir, we want some more." [Boston Globe]
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In one week, two whales have died at the same Rhode Island beach. [Providence Journal]
Cape Wind opponents continue to drag their feet -- into a courtroom. [Cape Cod Times]
Uh, oh. Genzyme's contaminated Allston factory may endanger some that count on their drug treatments. [Boston Globe]
A soldier from Chicopee has died from wounds inflicted by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. [Worcester Telegram]
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An SJC ruling could void thousands of foreclosures. Mass. has lots of bald eagles. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
- Real human bodies preserved by plastination are on display at the Atrium Mall in Chestnut Hill. [WCVB]
- The U.S. Coast Guard found two male Palestinian stowaways were found on a Liberian-flagged freighter heading to New Bedford. [South Coast Today.com]
Attorney General Martha Coakley wants Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Ally Bank’s GMAC to stop all foreclosure-related activities in Massachusetts. Coakley is concerned about the practice of “robo-signing," where employees simply sign mortgage documents without reviewing them.
- Tim Cahill left the Democratic party to run for governor as an Independent candidate. He still plans to vote in the Democratic primary next week. [Boston Herald]
- Karyn Polito is a Republican candidate for treasurer in Massachusetts. She supports a ballot question to cut the state sales tax to 3%. If it passes, Polito wants to raise it back to 5%. For and against tax cuts all at once. [Boston Herald]
-- The FBI, Weymouth police, and a state police SWAT team arrested two Bay State men who were allegedly preparing to rob an East Weymouth bank. Police got a tip about the planned heist and set up surveillance around 7 a.m. Police observed the suspects watching the bank, and watched them go to a nearby store to buy disguises. The suspects were arrested without incident. Police found a sledgehammer and crowbars in the car. Both men were charged with attempting to commit armed robbery while masked, receiving a stolen motor vehicle, conspiracy to commit a crime and possession of burglarious tools. They are being held at Weymouth Police headquarters on $100,000 bail until a Tuesday arraignment in Quincy District Court. [patriotledger]
This morning, the Globe redeemed its week of snow coverage with a story about the perils of renting a foreclosed property. Apparently, banks, which spent so much time earlier in the decade making lousy mortgage loans, can't be trusted to fix the plumbing. This, despite a city P.R. campaign that reminds lenders, in rhyming municipal speak, to "Clean it or Lien it." [Globe]
--150 members of Anonymous, the group that wears Guy Fawkes masks and opposes Scientology, was back yesterday to protest. [Boston Herald]
--Someone found violent messages in women's bathrooms, along with the date of February 28 (tomorrow), at Bridgewater State. Given recent violent incidents on college campuses nationwide, the school boosted security. Police are offering a $500 reward to find out who did it. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald]
--Hendry Street isn't the only place suffering from the home-foreclosure crisis. In fact, so many areas are suffering that real estate agents are taking possible buyers on bus tours of other people's property. As if someone losing a home doesn't have enough misery, now they have to have complete strangers tramping about on the front yard. [Boston Globe]
--A truck making an illegal left turn near the BU East Green Line Stop hit a Green Line train yesterday morning. One Green Line passenger went to the hospital, and the truck driver has a date with the courts. [Boston Globe]
-- Call him Governor Patrick-agressive. Deval Patrick unveiled his 2009 budget, and it had a little surprise. $300 million of revenue is set to come from taxes on three casinos that do not yet exist. Patrick wants to license casino gambling in Massachusetts but faces heavy opposition in the legislature. It's a battle he has already won in his own mind. Nearly half -- $124 million -- of the speculative funds will shore up a projected lottery shortfall. [Boston Herald]
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