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-- More details have emerged in Sunday morning's triple killing outside a Dorchester party. The three victims were friends who were leaving the party when they were detained by a group of men looking to get phone numbers from the women. After their advances were rebuffed, the men allegedly opened fire on the victims' car, killing Anthony Peoples, Chantal Palmer, and Shacora Gaines, and leaving a fourth, unidentified woman, unharmed. Cops brought more than two dozen partygoers in for questioning, but have not made any arrests. [Globe; Herald]

Seth McFarlane, creator of Family Guy and voice of Griffins - Stewey, Brian (the dog), and patriarch Peter as well as Quagmire, spoke at Harvard's Class Day yesterday. Today the Exercises of Commencement clog most of Cambridge and hoard the sheriff of Middlesex County. There's a choice of what to watch: Larry Summers' final charge to graduates at the helm of Harvard University, Jim Lehrer of News Hour on PBS, or the Family Guy. Academics...

While some parts of the country saw massive marches and demonstrations during yesterday's "Day Without Immigrants," Boston's turnout was relatively modest. (The Hi-Spot Deli downtown was totally closed, though.) Nevertheless, the Bostonist team diligently snapped a few photos of events downtown, in Harvard Yard, and at Cambridge City Hall (yeah, we know we have too many pictures of Middlesex County. We're working on it.), and here they are. You can see links to more pictures at Universal Hub.

Bostonist understands that actual, real-life news outlets like newspapers necessarily move more slowly than lithe, web-based outfits like our own, especially since we're so light on reporting and heavy on snark analysis. But could whoever is in charge of the Herald's website make even a little bit of an effort to pull the outdated Entwistle stories as more facts become available?

For whatever reason, nothing captures the national imagination like the trials of handsome young men who kill their families. So expect Massachusetts to be propelled into the national spotlight for a while now that Neil Entwistle, the British man whose wife and infant child were found shot to death in the family's Hopkinton home a few weeks ago, has finally been arrested and is being brought back to the United States from England. Entwistle turned...

If Bostonist were the Middlesex County DA's office, trying to find a man accused of beating a woman nearly to death with a rock in Stoneham in July, we would be pretty peeved at the Globe right now. The suspect, Joseph Simpson of Dorchester, was indicted by a grand jury on Friday for armed assault with intent to murder, but he remains at large. The Globe today reports this under the headline "Public's help sought in search for suspect." But the public may find it hard to render help since the story (or the on-line version, at least) contains neither a photo nor a description. Luckily, the good folks at Channel 4 and the Stoneham Sun are on the case: Simpson, 34, is black, 5'11", and heavyset. His picture is above.

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After 20 years on the run after escaping from Norfolk County Jail, Norman A. Porter, Jr., was arrested in the Windy City of Chicago yesterday. Massachusetts' authorities have been searching for Porter, who's rap sheet began in 1960 with executing a clerk at a Saugus store, helping to kill a jailer at Middlesex County Jail, and then escaping another jail in 1985; police were only tipped off recently when Porter's finger prints came up as a match in an FBI search. This case is a little different from others in the past, with Porter being a well-known poet in the Chicago area. After changing his name to "J.J. Jameson," he has been performing all over the city, focusing on antiwar poetry, writing two books, and being named "Poet of the Month" last March. He was also a leader at a Unitarian congregation in Chicago's West Side. Porter has also been arrested a few times since his escape in 1985, but Massachusetts police were never contacted; he is now in police custody and will be coming back to Massachusetts to face charges tonight. Porter has been on the Top 12 Fugitive list for the state since 1985.