Gloucester's Homeland Security camera on Rogers Street caught a 27-year old Gloucester man throwing snowballs at city police officers outside of Latitude 43 on Saturday morning. He's charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct after throwing snowballs near an officer in the "head and shoulder area." WHDH reported police saying the incident happened as "the bars were getting out."
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Microsoft opened a new research facility in Cambridge. Perhaps they'll eventually get "Obama" into Word's spell-check. [Mass High Tech]
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The Transportation Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC, is a biometric credential for transportation workers in major U.S. ports. Created as a result of The Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA), the TWIC program is handled by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the U.S. Coast Guard. It launched in Delaware in October 2007 and came to Boston shortly thereafter.
Questions are still swirling around the death of Keith Ryan, son of Globe sportswriter Bob Ryan. The younger Ryan was an attache in Pakistan, and it was believed that he had shot himself. However, suspicions arose that foul play was involved, the Globe reports.
At this time of year, all the local colleges are settling in to contemplate who is in and who is out. Kids with stars in their eyes are hoping to go to the school of their choice so they can go on to lucrative careers as doctors, lawyers, and Internet entrepreneurs. An entrance to Harvard might lead to Facebook-esque fame.
After the Mooninite Menace and Star Simpson's light-up sweatshirt, we were starting to think that the entire city of Boston was afraid of its own shadow. But Toronto just made us feel better by having its own experience of homeland security gone awry in the face of art. Torontoist has an interview up with a gentleman who just scared the holy shit out of the city. And this is Canada, people, aka America's Hat. They're...
UPDATE: From the AP: "US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday his agency will seek to "terminate" the deportation case against the wife of a Massachusetts soldier missing in Iraq so she can stay in the country and apply for permanent resident status." Unless we're mistaken, that sounds like Yaderlin Jimenez will be able to get her green card. Yesterday, word spread all over the Web that Yaderlin Jimenez, wife of missing...
The US government is considering deporting the wife of Alex Jimenez, the soldier from Lawrence who has been missing in Iraq since May 12. Jimenez is a citizen of the United States. His wife, Yaderlin, is not. She came here illegally from the Dominican Republic, and they married. She was in the process of getting a green card, but, according to WBZ, an immigration judge stopped the process when Alex Jimenez went missing. Her lawyer...
It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like...
Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today that the Boston area cut a deal with Turner Broadcasting and Interference, Inc., the brains behind the marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres that made life in Boston a little nutty last week. Boston will receive $2 million dollars for its trouble. In return, Turner Broadcasting and Interference won't face charges. Here's the basic breakdown - $1 million goes to reimbursing state and...
Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend...
Deval's hours old administration has stepped up and already thrown the switch quick putting the updated website live. It has only been a matter of hours since the Patrick administration has officially been the "Patrick administration" and the mass.gov website is dripping with the new governor and lieutenant governor's names. The top news story on mass.gov is an announcement of the inauguration providing a link to the new page devoted to Patrick/Murray, no longer Romney/Healey. Changing over the names emblazoned on fixtures is one of the things we're always curious about. If Menino is ever voted out of office how long will it take to remove his name from all of those signs and websites it adorns – he's even got a placard on the Zamboni that smoothes the ice on the Frog Pond. One thing that can be done quickly these days is changing the name on a website. Patrick's team has done just that.
Yesterday the City of Boston and surrounding communities participated in their latest homeland security sponsored drill, Operation Poseidon. The details of the drill had been leaked released to the press a few weeks ago. We knew what would happen, when it would happen, and where. Local blogger Eeka took part in the drill as a volunteer victim and gives her own recount of the dayThe simulation was very poorly done. We all had name...
September 17 terrorism comes to the Hub. The Boston Globe got hold of a memo outlining the plans for an upcoming terrorism drill to be conducted by federal officials and the City's office of homeland security. There is great value in staging drills, but there is a bit of complacency that comes along with knowing that a drill will happen. When the fire alarm goes off in the building it's a slow stroll out to...
All local and national news outfits have their eyes turned to London this morning. A terrorism plot has been uncovered in the UK which would apparently have resulted in planes on international routes from the UK to the US blowing up mid-flight. At least twenty-one persons have been taken into custody by British authorities so far, and they're still following leads stemming from the arrests. Here in the United States the Department of Homeland Security...
Trains are safe. That's the declaration from Michael Chertoff, head of the US Department of Homeland Security, after he took a ride on the MBTA Green Line. Perhaps malicious individuals looking to cause harm to Boston's subway system have also been thwarted by the introduction of the CharlieTicket system. If regular riders of the T, occasional patrons, and tourists are finding the new fare system a little cumbersome there maybe a built-in safety factor preventing...
We're not talking about any newly imposed fees, we don't know of any. On a recent trip to the Navy Yard we followed the red brick trail out of the National Park Service site only to come up against a blockade. Because we don't make a habit of following the Freedom Trail through Boston (really, how many times can you do it?) we were surprised to find that Gate 1 of Charleston Navy Yard was closed. Not only closed but closed off using Jersey barriers. We present this ironic image of how the Freedom Trail has been cut off by the likes of Homeland Security.
Update: Life is unfair. Bostonist wanted a regional or local story that would give us an excuse to gripe about the President, and we thought we'd found it (see below). Turns out, it was a hoax. So everything reported below about the U. Mass. student is not true. But President Bush is definitely still a disaster. Bostonist, like the Governor, has lately been checking out of local affairs and focusing on the presidency. But in...
In this post election edition of Kerry Watch Bostonist follows a popular theme of the Kerry camp. from 2004. In an act of faith Kerry has been keeping the fight alive, even if he's conceded. No, conceded, not conceited (though he might be that too). Kerry has kept open presidential aspirations by reaching out to his national email base from the 2004 election to keep up the message.
Fenway High teacher Obain Attouoman, scheduled to be deported March 11, can now stay in the US until at least 2007. Fenway students have been fighting on behalf of Attouoman all week, including a march at City Hall. Yesterday, six students went to Washington to meet with John Kerry, and even Mitt Romney wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security supporting Obain.
Remember about a couple weeks ago when Boston went into a panic about the dirty-bomb that might be coming our way with the Chinese Nationals that had been smuggled into the US from Mexico? Bostonist breathed a sigh of relief when they told us it was all a buzz and no substance. There had been reports of people downtown with Geiger counters (hence the dirty bomb rumors), maybe they were just looking for the radioactive material that showed up in Chelsea yesterday. The city, people, and environment are all reportedly safe and the radioactive material did not pose any threat.
Bostonist feels much safer knowing that Gov. Romney will be sleeping in his own bed tonight and not in DC. The most recent terror threat to Boston was breaking news this afternoon and evening. An anonymous tip was made to the FBI and Chicken Little, Goosey-Poosey, Cocky-Locky, and Ducky-Lucky (Boston’s Fox, CBS, NBC, and ABC affiliates) were all on their way to tell the King. The story, ahem, not fairytale, unfolded to reveal sketchy passport photo’s of four Chinese citizens who were reportedly smuggled across the U.S. border with Mexico with an intended destination of New York, or possibly Boston. There have been all sorts of 'uncorroborated' reports, including one from ABC that teams equipped with radiological sensors were patrolling Boston. Bostonist seems to think this could have just been some MIT students having fun, no? The moral to this story isn’t anything about Foxy-Loxy. Chicken Little is still camped out in Framingham at the homeland security bunker.
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