--Former Boston City Councilor, Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, who probably enjoyed the best nickname bestowed up on a councilor, passed away at age 87. The Globe used many adjectives to describe him, all of which can be freely interpreted, such as "irascible" and "colorful." He opposed desegregation and, in the words of the Globe, "railed against feminists, gays, and immigrants." [Boston Globe]
Results tagged “mabelrojas”
--Now, this didn't happen in Boston, but, as the Sports Redux mentioned earlier, a Massachusetts man and Red Sox fan was attacked by two men in New York. The men had asked him if he was loyal to the Red Sox. Carlos Ortez, 25, of Quincy, is now in the intensive care unit at Westchester Medical Center with multiple facial fractures. He was in New York to work on a construction project for a Manhattan...
--A man was set free after being held 44 days for a crime he didn't commit. After a 3-month-old girl was slashed at a party in July, police arrested Andrew Vaughn. Investigation revealed that a woman at the party, 19-year-old Mabel Rojas, committed the crime. What went wrong? Suspicions fell upon Vaughn, who was attending a party at the house with Rojas and the baby's mother. He saw the baby injured in the bedroom and...
