Results tagged “nantucket”

--Nantucket antique dealer David Place was charged with the alleged illegal importing and trafficking of sperm whale teeth on Friday. Place was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston on multiple counts of conspiracy and violating a federal law that prohibits trading in illegally captured wildlife.[Boston.com]

-- A Nantucket house painter allegedly killed a fellow painter after a drunken argument turned bloody last night. The slaying was the first homicide on the island since 2004. [Globe]

Lyme disease cases are up 39% over last year in Nantucket. The island's rate of Lyme infection is abnormally high, almost on par with the island's other unspeakable affliction: opposition to the Cape Wind project. If only there were a way to coordinate the two epidemics.

TMZ has some exclusive photos of John Kerry getting down with taking photos with college students in Nantucket. We hope he wore his flip-flops. At the "political" party, a girl clad in a green dress buddied up to Kerry and hogged the Bud Light, while her friends made excellent use of penis straws.

--It seems like the only time news from Brockton reaches Boston outlets is when someone gets killed. That's true today as the Globe reports that a 15-year-old male was killed there when his 18-year-old friend's gun discharged. The Globe notes that the shooting, "...took place about an hour after Gov. Deval Patrick came to Brockton to laud local and state police for a surge of officers that had prevented any shootings since mid-February." [original report from the Boston Globe, more here]

--Have you shopped at Hannaford recently? You might want to check your past credit card bills. They just had a huge data breach. Is the series of tubes on which we rely secure? [WBZ]