Due to red tape, the Vamoose bus, which Bostonist had written about recently, is no longer allowed to run from Cambridge to New York City. Vamoose didn't get a jitney license that lets them pick up and drop off passengers, the Crimson reports. This is such a letdown when it comes to cheap buses, especially now that the Peter Pan drivers are earning a reputation for douchebaggery. Vamoose was even supposed to have wireless. The......

--One would think that Boston would be prepared to handle snow. But it isn't a good sign when headlines read "what went wrong." [Boston Globe] --It also isn't a good sign when kids don't get home until 11:30 pm because of the weather. [Boston Globe] --A mistrial has been declared in the second trial for Alexander Pring-Wilson, who was convicted of manslaughter for the 2003 stabbing of Michael Colono in Cambridge, but who was granted......

--Maybe Fung Wah isn't so bad after all. The local press picked up on a b0st0n LiveJournal story that a Peter Pan bus driver felt that his passengers on a trip to Boston should be punished and forced to stay on the bus in Framingham because one of them called the company about his poor driving. The driver's sorry ass is about to get fired. [WBZ, Globe, b0st0n Live Journal] --Female parking enforcement officers......

--Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of Ted Kennedy and JFK, mother to Maria Shriver, and mother-in-law to Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been hospitalized at Mass General, although no one is saying why. She is 86. [Boston Globe] --Today marks the last day of Bob's Southern Bistro and the opening of some generic swanky watering hole. [WBZ] --With the departure of the infamous Mark Flomenbaum, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is disinfecting its hazardous practices by......

You know that somewhere in your freezer lurks a pot pie covered in frost. Well, now you've got a reason to clean out the freezer because five people in Massachusetts suffered from salmonella that's been linked to Banquet Pot Pies. Do not eat any Banquet Pot Pies with the code or plant number 5009 or P9. WBZ quotes ConAgra, maker of the pies, as saying "the pies are safe if they're cooked properly." But do......

Crime seems to have gone down because a) no one feels like going outdoors and making trouble or b) the news stations are so busy reporting on the endless road accidents that they don't notice any trouble. Fung Wah remains the superstar of the blotter, as the driver of the bus that crashed into a guardrail on the Pike got busted with a fake log book. For once, Fung Wah could have blamed it on......

Many buildings around the Hub are grandfathered, but those with new construction must comply with the American with Disabilities Act. The Act, signed fifteen years ago today by President Bush the elder, requires new and public facilities to be accessible by disabled persons. After spending a couple months in a wheelchair following a car accident, Bostonist became aware of all the challenges to getting that around people with disabilities face day in and day out,......

Recently Bostonist noticed the influx of JetBlue ads around the MBTA stations in Boston. We also observed the changes that are set to take place at Logan Airport in the coming months when Terminal A, finally, comes online. Delta will move operations over to Terminal A and JetBlue will take on many of the gates currently occupied by Delta in Terminal C. JetBlue has been sparking some rumors for the last couple of days about......