-- Neil Entwistle was convicted on two counts of first degree murder today. He shot his wife and 9-month-old daughter. The defense, and Entwistle's surviving family, maintain that he is innocent. The minimum sentence in Massachusetts for first degree murder is life imprisonment without parole. Luckily for the Herald and Globe, who can't seem to find any other juicy crime story, Entwistle's case will undergo an automatic review by the Supreme Judicial Court. [Globe] --......

Teen killed by commuter rail train identified. [WBZTV] Woman injured in Green Line crash sues MBTA. [WBZTV] If you didn't hear, Entwistle's guilty. [Guardian Nstar helps clean up the ducks it oiled up accidentally. [Somerville Blog] Teen sends 15,000 text messages a month. We think we hit 100 once. [WCVB] Root beer is the new... uh... beer? [NYT] If we can't kill child rapists, who can we kill? [CNN] Bus stop sign tagged Bostonist......

Natick (but not Doug Flutie) just says no to racism. Good for Natick. [Boston Channel] Mickey D's is expanding remote ordering systems. So much for eating locally? [Consumerist/KITV] Entwistle mess gets messier, grosser. Wake us when it's over. [Globe] There's talk about opening a restaurant in Boston Common. Will it serve rat on a stick? [Beantown Bloggery] Quick, friend Dan Grabauskas on Facebook before it's too late! [Boston Daily] L.A. tries "cloud-seeding" with silver......

From the "bad taste in our mouth" department: Prosecutors in the Neil Entwistle murder case want to enter nude pictures of him from a swingers website as evidence. [Boston Herald] After showing his family pride on Saturday, Gov. Patrick appeared on MSNBC this morning to hype the biotech stimulus bill to be signed today. Is someone trying to raise their national profile? [Boston Globe] What happens when child porn is found on a state......

--A building was evacuated today in Worcester after employees became sick due to what was apparently carbon monoxide poisoning. [Worcester Telegram & Gazette] --Paul Shanley, a former priest who was convicted for molesting a boy during the church sex scandal and who is now doing time, wants a new trial. [Boston Herald] --A blaze in Cambridge yesterday resulted in a fireball and left an officer and firefighter "slightly injured." [Cambridge Chronicle] --A victory for......

--Erwin Hirsch, chief of trauma surgery at Boston Medical Center, died yesterday when his boat capsized off the coast of Maine. Hirsch also did tours in Vietnam and Iraq. He was 72 years old. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe] --A lawyer for Neil Entwistle, the man who allegedly killed his wife and 9-month-old daughter in Hopkinton in 2006, has summoned ex-Herald reporter Michele McPhee and current Herald reporter Laurel Sweet for a story they did......

A judge informed Neil Entwistle, who is accused of murdering his wife and 9-month-old daughter in their home in Hopkinton in 2006, that evidence gathered in that home can be used in court. Entwistle and his lawyer were trying to throw out evidence gathered at the Entwistle home because the police didn't have a search warrant. Superior Court Judge Diane Kottmyer disagreed, saying that police were acting out of concerns for Rachel Entwistle's safety since......

In its end-of-year retrospective, The Boston Phoenix has produced one of the most scathing cultural critiques that strikes on a local and national level. David S. Bernstein asks hard questions about the public's fascination with brutalized, abused, missing, and murdered women. With a cover image of a battered woman, it seems that the Phoenix is exploiting the women-in-peril theme just like the Herald does. But the whole article asks why, if there are so many......

Neil Entwistle, who has captured the media’s attention on two continents, has arrived back in Massachusetts where he’s set to appear in Framingham District Court this afternoon at 2p.m. to be arraigned on charges of murdering his wife and baby daughter in late January. After being arrested at London’s Royal Oak tube stop on February 9, Entwistle has remained in British custody until yesterday when he was handed over to U.S. Marshals at Gatwick Airport.......

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......

Bostonist first caught wind of the alleged groping incident at Brookline High School on the evening TV news teasers. It appeared in the local newsprint yesterday. We actually were surprises the story didn't get some real estate on the Herald's front page. (Instead Simon Cowell shared top billing with the search for Neil Entwistle, whose wife and daughter were found dead over the weekend.) We learned from both local papers that Jonathon Alsop, the now......