Photo tagged Bostonist by iMatthew on Flickr North Korea agrees to submit information about its nuclear testing; gets removed from axis of evil. [NYT] The BBC is accused of thinking there are "too many Blacks and Asians" on TV, when they're actually trying to point out that there aren't enough blacks and Asians in executive positions. [Guardian] Five billion, 500 million... what's the diff? Exxon fine cut drastically in Valdez case. [NYT] Spain thinks......

-- Christopher Gardner Beaman, a descendant of Henry Cabot Lodge and a prolific organizer on Meetup.com, was sentenced last week for the brutal assault of his girlfriend. The victim, a 30-year-old Cambridge woman, described the crime as a culmination of the pattern of violence that marred their relationship. Beaman's assault left the victim hospitalized, in a wheelchair, with a lacerated liver last October. Beaman, 24, has a troubled history and a long rap sheet. His......

--Nancy Pelosi is coming into town on April 4 to speak at the inauguration of former US Rep Marty Meehan as he becomes chancellor of UMass-Lowell. [Boston Globe] --More people than the state expected chose state-subsidized insurance with the new Massachusetts health care plan, and now the state is wondering how to pay for it all. [Boston Globe] --Voters in Natick declared overwhelmingly that they want to keep the name "Redmen" for their school......

--A truck crashed on the Revere Beach Parkway last night. No one was hurt, but the incident shut down the parkway in both directions. According to WBZ, "State police officials said a truck went under the overpass on Route 107 North heading toward Chelsea and smashed into the top of the Route 16 bridge, bringing concrete down onto the roadway and damaging Route 16." The road has since been reopened. [WBZ, WHDH] --Two suspects......

Upon realizing that large chunks of Boston neighborhoods were left unmapped by Google Street View, Bostonist e-mailed Google HQ to find out why. We received a fairly standard response that the neglected areas would be mapped soon: We generally start collecting imagery at the metropolitan center (in this case Boston) and move out from there, which explains why the more outlying areas you mentioned are not covered in as much detail. However, we plan on......

So many big court cases went down this week, so we're wrapping up the latest. --The first witness testified Tuesday in the Franklin Park Zoo Amok Ape Trial, which will determine the amount that will be awarded to a 2-year-old girl was attacked by an ape in 2003. The girl's mother, Terrasita Duarte-Scott, is suing Zoo New England because her daughter was injured and probably has a flood of nightmares thanks to the episode. Courtney......

I've been hearing about a tapir named Seamus on the news. What's a tapir? Yes, Franklin Park Zoo has a baby tapir newly named "Seamus." "Seamus" just received his name after recovering from a bout with pneumonia, and he's ready to make his debut. While "Seamus" is a properly Irish name for Boston, a tapir is actually a mammal originating from South America or Malaysia. It resembles an anteater with hooves. Seamus is a Baird's......