--A woman from Blackstone was hit and killed by a snowplow. 50-year-old Rita Plante had to walk on the road after parking her car and heading to her home. According to O'Ryan Johnson, "Plante carried groceries and walked with her back to traffic when authorities said a white Ford extended-cab pick-up truck with a plow struck her from behind about 5:30 p.m." The snowplow hit her and kept going. Another car hit her after the......

--Police might be getting closer to tracking down the individual who attacked two women on the Esplanade on June 16 and July 29. The DA and the State Police put out a release saying they want to talk to five people who may have seen the man before the attacks happened. On June 16, one of the victims spotted a man by an Esplanade footbridge at 11:15. On July 29, the other victim saw two......

A night after Sox pitcher Kason Gabbard completed a Cinderella-esque nine innings at Fenway Park, the spotlight fell on a different belle of the ball for a fairy tale turn on the mound. The story didn't play out the way we would have written it - it was Leo Nunez, not Tim Wakefield, who was able to celebrate on Tuesday night. Nunez bounced back from a Fenway disaster two years ago to lead Kansas City......

--Early this morning, a man was found dead at 50 Archdale Road in Roslindale. That spot is, in BPD lingo, "known to police" - five young men were arrested for illegal firearms back in 2006. --In an instance of incredibly bad timing, a man got shot last night after a Dorchester peace rally at Dudley Street Park. Apparently the shooters didn't get the memo about that whole peace thing. The shooters haven't been caught, but......

Can you have a proper blotter if you can't report a crime? Yesterday afternoon, residents of East Boston lost 911 service briefly thanks to what the BPD described as "Verizon technical issues." In this world of iPhones and camera phones and phones that could butter your bread, not being able to call 911 because of "technical issues" is unacceptable. If you ever have 911 issues, the BPD website says you can call a BPD operator......

Back in December the Boston Herald ran a front page story that two had been arrested in the Dorchester quadruple murder case. The Boston Police Department was quick to rebut the claims by the Herald, but after the announcements this weekend we're wondering if their tipster was credible after all. Calvin Carnes Jr. and Robert Turner, both 19, have been arrested and arraigned on charges relating to the murders on December 13, 2005. Each of......

In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies. In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries. One moviegoer who can be in three places at once. Tuesday 3/21 Open Screen Like an open mic, but for filmmakers. Bring your movie and the Coolidge Corner Theatre will show anything that's under ten minutes long and screen it all in order of submission until they run out of time. Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:30......

If Bostonist were the Middlesex County DA's office, trying to find a man accused of beating a woman nearly to death with a rock in Stoneham in July, we would be pretty peeved at the Globe right now. The suspect, Joseph Simpson of Dorchester, was indicted by a grand jury on Friday for armed assault with intent to murder, but he remains at large. The Globe today reports this under the headline "Public's help sought......