The problems at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner haven't gone away with the departure of Mark Flomenbaum. In December, someone at the office picked up the wrong body from a Brockton hospital. While the incident didn't go quite as far as the wrong body winding up in someone else's grave, the employee was clearly confused. Luckily, someone at the South Boston office realized they had the wrong person and returned the body to......

--Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of Ted Kennedy and JFK, mother to Maria Shriver, and mother-in-law to Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been hospitalized at Mass General, although no one is saying why. She is 86. [Boston Globe] --Today marks the last day of Bob's Southern Bistro and the opening of some generic swanky watering hole. [WBZ] --With the departure of the infamous Mark Flomenbaum, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is disinfecting its hazardous practices by......

Former state Senate president-turned-lobbyist Robert Travaglini, fondly known around here as "T-Vag," tried to save the hide of the recently fired state medical examiner, Mark Flomenbaum. Last week, T-Vag went to the Flomenbaum's disciplinary hearing, which the Globe notes isn't the norm. T-Vag's partner, who was defending Flomenbaum at the hearing, summed up what T-Vag was trying to communicate: "There is a genuine desire by Dr. Flomenbaum to complete the mission." T-Vag & Co. apparently......

Chief medical examiner Mark Flomenbaum has been given the official heave. Governor Deval Patrick has apparently had enough with the swapped bodies, bloody floors, and decomposing corpses. The Herald summed up the Flomenbaum Era at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in three words: "severe management breakdowns." If all reports are true, that's an understatement. An independent report outlines all the breakdowns in gory detail. Perhaps the last straw for Patrick wasn't the independent......

Mark Flomenbaum might be breathing a little easier tonight. State police figured out what happened to the body of Thomas Brissette. Even though the body was found, the results are still embarrassing for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Brissette's body went to a funeral home and was buried under someone else's name. Oops! During their investigation, state police realized the corpse mixup and went to the grave intended for that corpse. They found......

The Chief Medical Examiner whose South End morgue was an absolute nightmare of health hazards was finally suspended from office yesterday. Mark Flomenbaum and his office pushed the Patrick administration over the edge by losing a body. Patrick said, "There is some explaining that is owed us and owed the family." That's an understatement (of which Deval is a master!). A source told the Globe that the body belongs to Thomas E. Brissette, who was......