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Four Westford Academy students were infected with MRSA and staph infections. [WCVB] Prosecutors may bring additional charges against Whitey Bulger's girlfriend, Catherine Greig. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. more ›

-- The Revere Fire Department and the state police bomb squad responded to the Broadway Convenience Mart after a reported bomb threat on Thursday. A suspicious device - a soda bottle wrapped with duct tape - was detonated by a robot. Someone called the store to instruct a clerk to check a bag containg the device allegedly said, "If you do anything stupid, I'll blow the place up." [Lynn Item] more ›

-- The story of Haleigh Poutre, the 14-year-old girl who, in 2005, was brought by her parents to a Westfield hospital in a vegetative state could not be more crushing. The girl has finally emerged from her coma, defying predictions that she would never reawake. (The Massachusetts Department of Social Services, for one, wanted to shut off her feeding tube.) Police interviewed her from her pediatric unit bed yesterday and have revealed a story of longstanding and brutal domestic abuse. Poutre's adoptive mother, Holli Strickland, was accused of the worst abuse, according to authorities, but her stepfather, Jason Strickland, was not left off the hook. more ›