--In Suffolk Superior Court today, Masha Badinter testified against Eliezer Falcon, who allegedly set her on fire after she was bullied at a 2005 party in Allston. The case is baffling and gruesome. According to a release from the DA's Office, Badinter had "second- and third-degree burns from the base of her spine to the nape of her neck," and Falcon may have threatened her to keep her from talking to police. The Herald adds......

What would Massachusetts be without some sort of infrastructure improvement? Today, the MBTA announced that it will overhaul the Columbia Road, Quincy Street, and Massachusetts Avenue commuter rail bridges. Here's the details from the release on how the construction might affect you--it's basically a lot of switching from inbound to outbound platforms: Work requires a temporary one track operation at Uphams Corner station which will continue throughout the entire project slated for completion Summer......

--The BPD arrested two people in the South End for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm. The gun wouldn't have been discovered if it hadn't accidentally gone off in the bathroom. The Herald reported that the woman who was arrested was the mother of Dontel Jeffers, the child who died at the hands of his foster mother, who was recently sentenced for the crime. Laurel Sweet writes, "Crystal Claiborn [Jeffers' mother] claimed that while aiming the......

--Some alleged bonehead from North Carolina got arrested after he tried to take a loaded gun on a plane at Logan. The lawyer for John C. Megelich says the guy didn't realize he had it in his bag. We don't know how you wouldn't notice a loaded gun. The DA's Office released some more details. Megelich, who was flying from Boston to Detroit, dared to put the gun through security in his briefcase, and security......

--As Bostonist reported last night, two young men were stabbed and one left in critical condition at the Back Bay T stop. The incident shut down the station for almost two hours. When this happened last time at the same T stop, Bostonist asked, "What's the MBTA going to do to follow up? And what will the BPD do?" Whatever they did, it didn't work. What really struck us was the fact that no one......

On Monday the Globe reported that "Antiterror cameras capturing crime on T" and Boston is safe. On Wednesday the Globe reported that " T's searches turn up only false alarms" and Boston is safe. Wednesday afternoon pretty much every media outlet reported on the breaking story that "Holy f*ing sh*t lite-brite is going to blow up our city." Mac Daniel's article on Monday touted the cameras installed in T stations as crime solving machines that......

Someone out there thinks he's too good to pick up his dog's poop. On Saturday night, a woman called the BPD after getting into an altercation with a guy who didn't clean up after his dog. He then went on to declare that he lives in a home valued above $1 million, and that he was offended at the apparent lack of a Resident Parking Sticker on the victim’s vehicle. Caller states that he then......

Why are Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and his wife, Shonda, going on a publicity rampage? On Monday, Shonda Schilling did a cameo as an "ordinary citizen" when she asked a question during the gubernatorial candidate debate. The Globe referred to her as a "golden-haired society-page star." Turns out that Mrs. Schilling really was playing a part since, according to the Phoenix, she's not even registered to vote in the state of Massachusetts. Shonda wasn't......

"Michael Moore's films are great," Randy Olson has told the Kansas City Star, "but I've never seen a debate afterward." Olson's documentary, Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus, aims to provoke discussion through the filmmaker's encounters with inarticulate, media-shy evolutionary biologists and with advocates of intelligent design, a Totally Legitimate Scientific Theory that species were created miraculously appeared suddenly, designed by the Lord an intelligent entity with the power to do that kind of......

On Monday night Bostonist had a chance to see Happy Endings, the latest film from writer/director Don Roos (Bounce, the Opposite of Sex), at the Landmark Kendall theater, and also stuck around after the film for a Q+A with actor Jason Ritter. Usually the title Happy Endings would allude to something a bit more lascivious or perverted, but in this case there were no lecherous old men being "fully serviced". The rather convoluted basis......

With a three day weekend on tap, Bostonist took a minute to give out the choicest selections (and some free tickets!!). So after enjoying the weather all day, there will be no reason to stay in at night. If your planning to drink yourself into oblivion on Monday, Bostonist salutes you. Boston metal/hardcore stalwards, Converge play Harpers Ferry on Saturday and Sunday, should be a head walking good time. On Monday, Great Scott is......

Can a daily newspaper's mood be affected by uncertain spring weather? Recent events at the Globe suggest the answer is yes. The fluctuating temperatures have certainly made Bostonist a little bit manic: when our town is bathed in balmy, 70-degree sunlight, we feel the exuberance of a schoolkid at 3:00 on a Friday, the notion that anything and everything is possible, that any passing glance from an attractive stranger might really be a lascivious come-hither.......