--The police repeat that they don't want any post-Super Bowl shenanigans. [WBZ] --The BPD called in a SWAT team to round up an 18-year-old who was spotted on Fowler Street with a gun Friday afternoon. [BPD News] --Some home-robbers used a van with the words "Tiny's Flowers" emblazoned on the side to cover up their burglar bungling. Too bad for them that a victim pulled up to her house just as they were taking her......

--While the BPD's attempt to round up the city's criminal element was noble, it didn't work. Someone shot two brothers, a 12-year-old and an 18-year-old, through the window of their own home last night in Roslindale. They are in critical condition but improving. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald] --Two female Boston University students were assaulted in their beds and in their own dorm rooms early Sunday morning. [WBZ] --In Lowell early yesterday morning, a man......

Attempt at Largest Gathering of Halloween Witches (Reciting Poetry) With Lesley Bannatyne Saturday, October 27 Book signing at 7:00 pm McIntyre & Moore Booksellers, Davis Square, Somerville Record-breaking at 7:30 pm Davis Square, Somerville Do the past few Halloweens seem to go by, leaving nothing more than a little tummyache after eating too much candy corn? Well, Somerville author and Halloween expert Lesley Bannatyne is aims to leave a mark this Halloween by attempting to......

We sure hope Josh Beckett found time during yesterday's off-day to watch High Noon. If you haven't seen it, the plot is that Sheriff Gary Cooper has one day left until retirement, and a pack of mean outlaws are coming to town to wreak havoc. He tries to round up a posse to meet them, but everyone in town has a dentist appointment, or their hair is drying, or they don't roll on Shabbos, or......

--Police picked up Mark Leaston because, according to the DA's office, "Evidence suggests that Leaston forced a 22-year-old woman into his U-Haul, drove her to nearby Kineo Street, and touched her against her will before ordering her out of the truck." Leaston's lawyer is saying that it wasn't kidnapping but that the woman was a prostitute, and Leaston was fighting with her. According to the Globe, the lawyer, Richard Doyle, dropped the words "pounding the......

--We thought all we had to worry about was guns! Well, the BPD had to round up a machete-wielding man yesterday. In Maverick Square, this person raced after his victim in public and actually made contact several times before police got there. The victim got lucky and is now in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. --A news bit we skipped in light of the meltdown at the Good Time Emporium: The BPD had to intervene......

How about you leash your damn dog? Police at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Howes Street came upon a fracas in which a Rottweiler had attacked two smaller dogs and was in the process of trying to have a human as the main course. The officer shot the dog dead. While we imagine the owner will be pissed at losing his Rottweiler, we don't have much pity for owners who can't mind their dogs......

Last night, the BPD busted seven people who were breaking into a church on Smith Street. The post didn't say that they were attempting to steal, but they definitely weren't there to join the choir. Yesterday a person was found shot at Talbot Avenue in Dorchester. The BPD calls the injuries "serious to life-threatening." On Friday afternoon, a woman became offended that a tow-truck driver dared to ask her to move her car. She started......

A man was shot and killed yesterday afternoon on Columbia Road in Dorchester. The killer ran off and got away, which absolutely floors us because this happened in the daytime before witnesses. We don't like to say anything disparaging about police officers, but you'd think that, given the circumstances, they could have rounded up the killer quickly unless the guy had a jetpack strapped to him. If the Globe is writing about how many people......

Our law-enforcement figures were successful in rounding up escape artists of all sorts, including a cow. That's right – not only did police have to deal with a man attempting a daring courthouse escape, but on Sunday morning some other officers had to round up a cow on the loose in Upton. We desperately wanted to title the post "Boston Blotter: Raging Bull," but no such luck. The loose animal was female. And she was......

Bostonist is still recovering from that one-hour loss of sleep due to Daylight’s Savings Time yesterday, so please be kind as we slowly enter into the world of blogging this week. Here’s a round up of the top stories here in the city today…with a couple of highlights in what is turning out to be a gloomy news day. Breaking News: A crane that was working on an Emerson College building at 136 Boylston Street......

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......

Bostonist had good intentions of writing a full-bodied concert round up to feature the wonder, whimsy and rock of The Decemberists and Franz Ferdinand, both gracing Boston with their presence last week. Quite unfortunately, review of the latter was prevented by a dramatic series of events on Saturday night, including the slam of a guest list against the Orpheum will call window, the insensitive throw of an Ohio drivers' license back through the copper ticket......

Today is Valentine's Day, welcomed by Hallmark stores and dreaded by all singletons in the city. Bostonist won't be spending it with anyone special this year, except for Jack Bauer, so we looked into some other options than a romantic candlelit dinner for one. Here's what we came up for those of you looking to go out tonight: The Boston Young Professionals Association has planned a "My Tie Valentine's Day Event" for those looking......