--Someone found a man in his 20s who had been killed by a gunshot wound to the head this morning on Westville Street. The Herald is reporting that the man was a relative of Andre Stoner, who was killed on October 17. Whoever killed Stoner's relative left him for dead in the John Marshall Elementary School parking lot. --Speaking of Andre Stoner and his family, Jessica Fargen of the Herald reports that the family has......

--Melvin Heard was once an Assistant DA working for Dan Conley. Now he faces charges of beating his own fiancée. The charges have cost Heard his job. DA Dan Conley said in a statement: "On the morning of Monday, Aug. 20, immediately upon hearing of Melvin Heard’s arrest, I ordered him placed on unpaid leave. Our office undertook its own inquiry into the matter and four days later, on Aug. 24, he was terminated." Heard's......

As if the Charlie Weis gastric-bypass malpractice trial weren't close enough to an episode of Boston Legal, the judge declared a mistrial following a dramatic courtroom scene. No, the scene didn't involve Tom Brady. A juror became ill and collapsed. Since the doctors Weis was suing were present, along with other doctors acting as witnesses, the juror didn't lack for medical attention. The mistrial resulted because the other jurors saw the defendants helping the man.......

The Brattle is screening Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at 5:00, 7:30, and 10:00 tonight. It's one of the Brattle's 2007 staff picks, and the choice proves the Brattle's impeccable taste in cult classics. How can you possibly resist this sci-fi treat with the Dream Team of William Shatner and Ricardo Montalban? The Dig expressed its excitement best by simply writing: "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" (did we get in enough "A"s?) To accompany that sentiment, Bostonist......

The MBTA made a bold marketing move in branding the new fare cards. Bold, but perhaps brilliant. Before the CharlieCard, before the CharlieTicket, all passengers have is the MBTA to blame. Now riders simply raise their fists and curse Charlie (think Shatner screaming "Khaaan!") the MBTA isn't scapegoat - it's the new cartooned mascot. A mascot who was taken from the verse of a song about a guy who was stuck on the T because......

Eight Days a Week. The music scene is hot, and we realize that we're not giving you enough lead time on some of the best way to cure a case of the Mondays – with a Monday evening show. This week we're putting eight days into our weekly music picks. Starting on Monday and running through the following week. This week we're eating locally – and listening locally. Several local acts find prominence on......

Forget what everyone else says. Bostonist loves the new Old Navy tunic ads (pictured at right), and not just because they use "Bust a Move," that classic rap song from our youth. We may be crazy, but we think the lyrics include a subtle, Boston-friendly bit of vocabulary. Bostonist has a complex relationship with mass-media offerings that try to pander to our fair city: most attempts to play up Boston-ness feel heavy-handed and contrived to......