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Several North Shore towns are dealing with severe damage a day after heavy rain caused flash floods on Tuesday. [WBZ] Bundle up! Parts of the Bay State are getting freeze warnings and frost advisories on Thursday. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. more ›

Utilities trimmed the number of powerless Bay Staters to about 25,000 today. That's down from 500,000 on Sunday. People are frustrated, obviously, with National Grid or NSTAR for their response to Hurricane Irene. Attorney General Martha Coakley wrote to both companies for an explanation and legislators want answers, too, and punishment. more ›

As of about 6:30 p.m. tonight, 112,000 Massachusetts electric customers were still without power. There are 83,000 National Grid clients in the dark, mostly in the Attleboro and Scituate areas, along with 29,000 NSTAR customers in South Shore, Cape Cod, and the Metro West towns. National Grid's website has estimates for every city or town with outages. more ›

Attorney General Martha Coakley is working with National Grid on a settlemnt over the power outages caused by the December blizzard. A fisherman spotted a great white shark off the coast off Martha's Vineyard. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. more ›

Our winter of wacky weather has now turned to lightning and wind, after snow and cold and hot temperatures. The wind caused almost 15,000 homes in Massachusetts to have no electricity around noon today. Two JetBlue planes headed to Logan Airport from Tampa and Baltimore were struck by lightning Friday. Both flights landed without incident. more ›

A second carbon monoxide related incident happened in Massachusetts last night. Firefighters evacuated four single-family homes on Bolton Street in South Boston because of high CO readings. The Boston Fire Department reached the scene at 9:15 p.m. and learned NStar traced the problem to a burning underground cable. Nobody was injured. An eight-year old Quincy boy died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. [Globe] more ›

We read about Northeast Utilities' acquisition of NStar on Monday. Today, Universal Hub reported that the first stockholder lawsuit has already been filed. That was quick. We scanned the complaint and found lots of references to "fiduciary" and some latin-type words in it. more ›

Business is happening all over Boston: more ›

• Target is battling Stop & Shop for the right to open a store at Trinity Financial's One Canal project. [Boston Herald]

• The Houghs Neck Community Council in Quincy is hosting their 6th Annual Chowdafest Saturday 2-6 p.m. [Patriot Ledger]

• Hub bartenders will garnish your drinks with almost anything in 2010. [Boston Herald]

-- A criminal assault and battery charge will be filed against an Arlington Catholic High School football player after he allegedly headbutted a player from Abington High School in a game in September. There is no arraignment date set yet. The victim's lawyer said the Arlington Catholic player "took his helmet off and headbutted him." The suspect's lawyer, Ronald A. Martignetti, said Arlington Catholic suspended his client for two games. [Herald] more ›