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......

Mark A. Flomenbaum, the former Chief Medical Examiner who was dismissed after the office of the Chief Medical Examiner was revealed to be an unsanitary hellhole, is suing because he feels "Governor Deval Patrick lacked grounds to dismiss him." Okay, okay, all charges alleged. But a body went missing. The Herald reported blood on the floor and a "constant stench of decomposition." If that's not grounds for dismissal, then what is? In terms of sheer......

--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......

Last night, word broke out that firefighters Warren Payne and Paul Cahill, who perished in a blaze at the Tai Ho Restaurant, had drugs and/or alcohol in their system. This morning, many citizens are expressing outrage at the smear on their memories on the local news. Several outlets are reporting that Warren Payne had cocaine in his system, and Paul Cahill was legally intoxicated. However, the report comes from, in the Globe's words, "A......

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......

--Since we got accused of having dirty minds with yesterday's post about the "penis for lunch" sign in Dedham, we wondered what you would think of a post about "illegal dumping." No, it's not that kind of dumping. Geez! We're not that bad. Two men were caught dumping "carpeting, trash, and metal debris" in East Boston. The mayor announced that the city put surveillance cameras near the Chelsea Creek when it got too messy. If......

--We're starting with the comic relief because, well, the rest ain't pretty. The Northeastern University Crime Log reports a man who up and peed all over a stack of onions at the Symphony Market. What did the onions do to him? Naturally, the manager took umbrage, and the offender happened to leave his Northeastern ID behind. NUPD tracked the peeing perp down at his residence hall. The Symphony Market manager must be a nice guy......

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......

--Sure, a little disorderly is expected on St. Patrick's Day. But some Dropkick Murphys fans took it to the limit at the band's show yesterday. The BPD rounded up six fans who had been ejected and weren't very happy about it. One of the guys, a Belmont resident, got so upset that he "punched and kicked several security guards." --More disorderly took place early this morning when two Dorchester guys got into it in front......

Judging by the terrible conditions of the state medical examiner's office in the South End, CSI: Boston would be more like the Keystone Cops than a riveting nighttime drama. It's amazing that the employees could solve any crime given the fact that bodies are piling up like cordwood. According to the Herald, a bunch of dead bodies jammed up in one place results in truly nauseating conditions such as "a half-dozen infants stored on shelves,"......

As you probably guessed from Bostonist's comment thread, there are many fans of the late Boston singer Brad Delp, who died last Friday. Non-Boston papers are offering their evaluation of Delp's contribution to music. The LA Weekly offered a perfect analysis of Delp's skills, which somehow managed to be distinct and anonymous at the same time: Most of us wouldn’t recognize Delp from a photo, yet his vocal frequencies have been burned into the American......