The clerk shot during an attempted robbery of a Fitchburg liquor store on Wednesday died this morning. Scott E. Person of Ashby was 40. Earlier today, police arrested Rafael Garcia-Concepcion, 32, in connection with the shooting. He will now be charged with murder. [WCVB]
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Three out of four gubernatorial candidates participated in a youth forum, and Charlie Baker realized there wouldn't be many actual voters there. [Boston Globe]
Registration for the Boston Marathon opens on Monday, but you needed to run qualifying races before last September. [WBZ]
A Medford church has found a Koran in their 18th-century pastor's collection. [Medford Transcript]
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Worcester police may have a break in several decades-old cases although the suspect is dead. [Telegram & Gazette]
Dozens of nonviolent offenders with outstanding warrants surrendered in Mattapan on the first of a 4-day leniency program. [Dorchester Reporter]
A long-forgotten collection of colonial artifacts from the Lexington house of John Hancock's grandfather was found in one of its closets. [Boston Globe]
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Oink! H1N1 Flu is a pandemic, and there are more than 1,000 cases in Mass. [WBZ]
Governor Patrick announced a contest for IT startups. [Xconomy]
A Boston College grad from New Bedford is on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" today. [New Bedford Standard-Times]
Help a former Pats cheerleader get married on the "Today" show. [Boston Herald]
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- Hurricane Earl finished off Gene Ratner's Nantucket home. [Nantucket Island Inquirer]
- Wayne Johnson of Marblehead has to destroy his $1 million home because it blocks his neighbors view. [WBZ]
-- The 2-year-old Rehoboth child allegedly beaten by his mother died early Friday morning. On Thursday, Kim Peno, 38, was held without bail and charged with "assault to murder and assault and battery of a child, causing substantial injury" at an arraignment in Taunton Thursday. The charges could be upgraded. Peno faces a competency hearing Monday. [Herald]
-- State Senator Anthony Galluccio avoided jail time by pleading guilty today to fleeing the scene of an October car crash. He was sentenced to six months home confinement. [Globe]
-- Two sisters and one phone led to a fight and an assault and battery charge. [Herald]
-- A Marblehead lawyer is being charged with attempted larceny and uttering for an alleged million-dollar mortgage scheme. [Globe]
-- Police found a storage unit in Hingham loaded with loot from recent break-ins on the South Shore. A suspect was arrested and charged with various counts of larceny and forgery. [WickedLocal/The Patriot Ledger]
All charges alleged until proven under law.
- Budget Cut Redux: Gov. Deval Patrick plans to save the state's new film-industry tax credit while advocates for residents of Massachusetts with mental illnesses are concerned about cuts to social services. [Boston Herald]
- The father of the Boston special officer who shot and killed the man who stabbed the psychiatrist discussed his son with the media. [Boston Globe]
- The Somerville Journal accuses the Somerville News of plagiarism. It's MoDo/TPM all over again! [Somerville Journal]
- New traffic tools may help you avoid an awful weekend of driving this Memorial Day. [Commonwealth Conversations]
- An MGH employee left patient records on the T; now the hospital is being sued. [Globe]
--A man from Marblehead was arrested in connection with Wednesday's killing of 21-year-old Wesleyan University student Johanna Justin-Jinich. Stephen P. Morgan was taken into custody outside a convenience store in south Meriden without incident after asking a store clerk to call police. Morgan was reportedly targeting Jewish people. [WCVB]
me_ram, like many of us, is enjoying the warmer days this week and in his own words, "It's Spring time baby!" This shot was taken on a recent trip to Marblehead and does a good job freezing the power of the ocean. The blue/pink sky and green water are a nice change from the greys and whites of a New England winter.
-- Police charged three women with abducting a 24-year old man and leaving him to die in a burning apartment building early Sunday. Investigators discovered the man's plight when his brother, whom the women had allegedly attempted to extort, contacted police in Brighton. Farrah Girault, 29, of Roxbury, Cheerley Chevalier, 30, of Taunton and Jillian Jacques, 23, of Allston allegedly kidnapped the victim, bound him with a hair dryer, and beat him until he vomited blood. Things got worse when the women allegedly set fire to a 9-pack of toilet paper and a mattress and left the victim to die in Jacques's Allston apartment. The crime was described as drug-related. [Herald]
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