Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'girlsgonewild'
February 26, 2008
--The Executive Director of the Turnpike Authority wants to CharlieCard everything so that you can use your card at the tolls. While we're all for not having to save spare change, automation might make it easier to miss fare hikes. [Boston Herald] --Massachusetts Bay Community College has been accused of spending money like a drunken sailor. While $450,000 may sound like peanuts in a city whose private schools roll in money, some staff aren't......
Continue Reading "Bite Size News"February 25, 2008
--Revere police arrived to a crime scene today at 3:15 p.m. They reported a fatal stabbing and a non-fatal shooting. There aren't many details available at this point, but a source tells the Herald that the victim was attacked by her son. [Boston Herald] --A Brookline teen was charged with drunken driving after hitting a 21-year-old pedestrian on Comm Ave between Exeter and Fairfield in the Back Bay at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday. He......
Continue Reading "Boston Blotter: Breaking Story--A Murder in Revere"February 24, 2008
--Violent revelers turned a party for "Girls Gone Wild" at Aria on Tremont Street into a full-on fracas early this morning: "Two people were shot, a state trooper broke his arm and a Boston police officer was in a cruiser crash." A brawl involving 20 to 35 people swinging champagne bottles broke out, and then one armed man started firing into the crowd. [Boston Herald, BPD News] --Police are looking for a former student at......
Continue Reading "Boston Blotter: Party Gone Wild"December 4, 2007
--Framingham Police had to deal with a perp so drunk and unruly on Sunday that they had to hold his head still when they snapped him for his mugshot. According to the MetroWest Daily News, Sandro Romero's wild night started when police happened upon Romero's friends, who were trying to take him home. Even though they got him home, the officer involved got called back due to reports of a "screaming man." While being booked,......
Continue Reading "Boston Blotter: How's This for a Mugshot?"October 17, 2007
--A level 3 sex offender with some serious impulse-control issues got busted in Cambridge District Court yesterday. According to the Herald, he went to the ladies' restroom, exposed himself, and masturbated in front of women in the restroom. Police arrested 48-year-old Malcolm Maker, who apparently really wanted to get caught. Far as we can tell, he had no other reason for being at the courthouse. He was already on the radar for incidents at Mohegan......
Continue Reading "Oddblotter: New England's Busiest Peeping Tom, Mini-Mardi Gras"April 20, 2005
For almost two weeks Boston Herald employees have been wearing little black ribbons in a show of solidarity trying to keep their jobs. This weekend the Herald announced that they would be scraping the Barnicles off the ship in order to save some money. To hit the $7 million budget reduction the paper’s top brass proposed a one-quarter staff reduction, Bostonist has gotten word that the Newspaper Guild says agreement has been reached and a......
Continue Reading "Free the Herald"March 7, 2005
The Headline "Wellesley Girls Gone Wild" emblazed on your front page, bigger and bolder than anything we could hope to get out of the Boston Globe—or even the Metro. The subtext even informed Bostonist that you were going to discuss a lesbian party. This seems to be well worth the quarter we’d have to drop. But shame on you Herald, with further investigation Bostonist found the same story that the Globe reported and was more......
Continue Reading "Oh Herald, How You Tease."