Results tagged “giraffe”

Bite Size News, September 17: Things That Make You Go "Hmm" Edition

  • There are conflict-of-interest concerns regarding the firm hired to recover City Hall's deleted emails. Hmm... [Boston Globe]
  • Did Tweet the Giraffe die from something he ate on a movie set? Or did Kevin James murder him? Hmm... [Boston Herald]
  • A clever kid didn't want to be in kindergarten, so he walked home by himself. Hmm! [Somerville Journal]
  • Zoo Funding May Return, a New Giraffe, and the Globe Being the Globe

    The Globe's Metro Desk reports Mass. lawmakers are about to create a spending plan torestore funding to the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and Stone Zoo in Stoneham that was cut earlier this year. A vote on the bill, which also restores $40 million to cover health care costs for legal immigrants, may happen Wednesday. ZooNE should get $2.5 million of the $4 million that was cut back, which may or may not be enough to keep both zoos open. Regardless of the funding, there will be no animals killed.

    Bite Size News, May 4: Truancy, War, Influence Edition

  • Revere City Council freaks out after teens swarmed the beach last Tuesday. [Boston Herald]
  • A Massachusetts sailor has been in killed in Iraq. [South Coast Today]
  • Filene's Basement files for bankruptcy, and some stores will remain open. [Boston Business Journal]
  • This year's "Most Influential People" included New Englanders like...
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