Attention criminals! Don't ask cops to smoke crack and don't tell them you have crack on you to smoke with them. Last week in Central Square, two undercover detectives arrested a Medford man who allegedly asked them to go get “get some beers and smoke some crack.” The suspect also asked for a crack pipe and showed the officers the cocaine. They walked with the suspect across Mass. Ave to Essex Street where they displayed badges and identified themselves as Cambridge Police detectives. The suspect had to be told what he did wrong. He was arrested for possession of cocaine. [Wicked Local Cambridge]
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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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Drop that KFC Double Down. A new study claims that Boston is the second fittest city in America after Washington DC. [USA Today]
They probably know how to save people, although a couple hundred EMT's in Mass and New Hampshire falsified various recertification training. [Boston Globe]
Former Supreme Court Justice Souter, who is speaking at Harvard's commencement today, has a part-time gig at an appeals court in Boston. [Boston Herald]
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Huggers will continue to find trees in Massachusetts as the Commonwealth is moving to protect more of its forests from logging, etc. [Berkshire Eagle]
Although there is resistance to Cape wind power, a Boston Harbor island may be a successful location. [Patriot Ledger]
Earth Day activists are in hot (clean?) water for camping overnight in Boston Common. [Boston Globe]
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A suspicious package was found floating near a Massport facility. Early reports suggest it was smaller than an Aqua Teen Hunger Force lite-brite. [Boston Channel]
Senatorial candidate (and male model) Scott Brown can't stand the idea of people driving around while hopped-up on "the reefer." [Boston Herald]
A freshman from Hingham has died after contracting H1N1 at Miami University. [Boston Globe]
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The starfish population is booming, and that's probably not be good news. [Boston Globe]
A beaver is dividing a Medford brook and members of the neighborhood. [Boston Globe]
The 88-year-old woman who ran over a 4-year-old Stoughton girl won't be driving again. [Boston Channel]
Don't expect to see same-sex marriage in Rhode Island for at least another year. [The Advocate]
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It's been a big week for marijuana in Massachusetts. A pizza guy was caught trafficking pot via pizzas in Medford. He had 250 pounds of marijuana enclosed in 11 pizza boxes. He pleaded not guilty. Now it's pot in Arlington, and it's homegrown. Police found 46 pounds of pot, worth at least $120,000, in an apartment on Cleveland Street.
A Medford woman allegedly killed her husband with a cooking knife after she found a hickey on his neck. Police found Troy Burston shirtless with a stab wound, allegedly inflicted by his wife Shawntina Burston, in the chest outside of his home on Exchange Avenue last night. The couple, who have two children, fought after returning home from a party. Burston pleaded not guilty on Monday in Somerville District Court. She was held without bail. All charges alleged until proven under law. [WBZ], [Globe]
Massachusetts has had a tragic two days with seven people getting killed in multiple incidents.
A new biography of Michael Bloomberg apparently paints Medford as an anti-Semitic small town too dull to handle the fiery spirit of the future mayor of New York (who was born in Brighton). The book also describes how Bloomberg's family had to enlist an Irish middleman to buy a home in Medford when the seller wouldn't deal with Jewish people. Bloomberg buddy Paul Theroux piles on the hate, calling Medford "a place you want to leave, to escape from." Does Medford deserve these harsh words? Based on our inability to find anything interesting to do there thus far, perhaps. But at least it doesn't have as many strollers as Brookline... or if it does, they just stay inside the SUVs. And much of Medford even knows how to use doors.
-- A Medford couple was arrested in connection with a series of armed robberies that had targeted women in Somerville. Police say that Vincent Anthony Primo, 40, robbed three women using a screwdriver. Primo allegedly stabbed two of the women, one of whom sustained life threatening injuries but has since recovered. Primo's alleged accomplice, Kim Marie Szathmary, a 41-year-old Somerville woman, used credit cards stolen in the robbery at the Somerville Target, according to police. [Somerville Journal]
The Somerville Journal keeps getting older while the naked butts stay the same age. The paper sparked a kerfluffle last year when it ran a basically unedited video of the 2007 Tufts Naked Quad Run on its website, featuring hundreds of naked butts and little else. This year, with the number of runners reduced by temperatures that threatened to inflict permanent shrinkage on any naked person, the Somerville Journal turned its camera on the clothed and practiced something bordering on journalism. The naked butts are still there, but in reduced number, and the video has been edited to more closely resemble a news story.
-- A 7-year-old boy was shot last night amid the crossfire between warring youths. The child had been playing kickball near Smith Street on the Mission Hill end of Roxbury when he was apparently struck by ricocheting bullets. He remains hospitalized with multiple injuries.
--Are you a smoker? House Speaker Sal DiMasi and Senate President Therese Murray are considering raising the cigarette tax. [Boston Globe]
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