-- Boston cops responding this morning to reports of trespassing teens at English High School in Jamaica Plain nabbed one trespasser, a 17-year-old from Dorchester, with a gun in his napsack, according to authorities. Four others were arrested on lesser charges. [BPDNews] -- A man held up a store in Brighton with a sawed-off shotgun in Brighton yesterday. [BPDNews] -- A man was stabbed outside of the Dorchester Courthouse Monday morning, receiving a slash to......

-- 23-year-old Daniel Harris, one of four injured during last week's shooting on Dorchester's Elder Street was held without bail today in the murder of Alexandra Gomes. Gomes' and Harris' families co-own a moving company. Harris was injured after one of his alleged victims returned fire. Prosecutors have not advanced a motive in the killing. [Herald] -- Robert Finnerty, a 26-year-old Charlestown man, pleaded not guilty today to charges that he killed a man while......

-- Rodolfo Bonilla, who stands accused of a twisted scheme to defraud a 91-year-old man, was ordered held on a $100,000 cash bail today, according to the Suffolk County DA. The 48-year-old Jamaica Plain man and Tammy Lewis, his 39-year-old girlfriend, allegedly forged a document that gave the victim's power of attorney to Lewis, which they used to cash checks from the victim's accounts. -- A pair of alleged thugs in Somerville may have been......

Somerville catches Obama Fever, since the President-elect spent his Harvard Law days in Winter Hill. [Boston Herald] Dianne Wilkerson's resignation will presumably occur before Sonia Chang-Díaz is sworn in. [Boston Globe] Obama's Southie auntie might have gone into hiding. [Boston Herald] How will cops measure an ounce of pot? How many running dogs does it take to make a race? [Somerville Journal] A techie loses personal info of more than 8,000 clients of a......

-- A man was shot dead this morning inside of the residence at 110 Greenbrier St. in Dorchester. The victim was a 24-year-old black man. No arrests have been made and no motive has been advanced, but police believe that two assailants broke into the victim's home and murdered him. 110 Greenbrier St. was the address of a man convicted in February of dealing drugs. [BPDNews] -- A brawl between teenagers turned serious October......

A soldier from Beverly has died in Afghanistan. [The Salem News] Soccer has more than a foot in Somerville's door. The Krafts are thinking about building a new home for the Revolution. [Boston Globe] Parents of autistic children are pissed off about Denis Leary's new book, and not surprisingly he doesn't care. [WHDH] The City of Lynn is prosecuting an old lady for feeding the animals around Flax Pond, because there's no other criminal......

-- A pair of young louts in tight, black jeans were arrested on Medford St. in Somerville Friday morning, after a drunken car break-in, police say. The alleged booty: a $300 iPod, Arcade Fire and ironic 90s dance music presumably included. [Somerville Journal] -- A 43-year-old Somerville man was beaten to a pulp by gang members when he refused to sell drugs for them. Three of the four suspects, reputed members of the Mara 18......

-- Somerville cops bagged an alleged car burglar Monday only to discover that he was armed with a sword, according to reports. No word on whether he was being pursued by an oversized Russian. [Somerville Journal] -- A tenacious Northeastern student tracked down his stolen bike three weeks after the theft and recovered it with the help of Boston police, according to authorities. The alleged thief, a 23-year-old from Jamaica Plain had repainted the bike,......

-- Two men were found shot last night in Dorchester, one fatally. The dead man was found slumped over a steering wheel; the other victim was found outside the car, with a gunshot wound to the head that sent him to Boston Medical Center, where he remains in critical condition. Both victims were in their 40s. [BPDNews, Globe] -- In an unrelated incident, police found two men, also in their 40s, suffering from multiple gunshot......

-- The Alleged Criminal Formerly Known as Clark Rockefeller was denied bail today in Suffolk Superior Court. The German national had previously been offered a $50 million cash bond. [Herald] -- Somerville police nabbed two suspects, one a minor, yesterday for last week's daylight shooting at Foss Park. [Somerville Journal] -- An argument with tenants sent an Allston maintenance man into a rage yesterday afternoon, according to police. The 31-year-old man was arrested for breaking......

Governor Patrick proposes broad budget cuts to offset sagging tax revenue. [Boston Channel] Traffic is already worsening as cash-strapped state agencies can't afford nighttime road repairs. [Boston Globe] Yes, traffic lights have been adjusted in Back Bay to save you time and reduce emissions. [WBZ-TV] Black Mass, Part II? A Pentecostal church will soon be at the site of Whitey's Winter Hill hangout. [Boston Globe] One little "Sarah Palin gang-rape" joke gets Sandra Bernhard......

-- Christian Morgenson, a 61-year-old man, shot and killed his wife Sunday night before calling the police and killing himself, according to authorities. In a chilling twist, Morgenson posted a notice of the couple's deaths on his website prior to carrying out the apparent murder-suicide. [Globe] -- A man was arrested outside of the Jackson Square T station in Jamaica Plain Sunday night after he allegedly pulled a knife on a passerby and tried to......

Neither postponement nor insects nor continued precipitation could keep Somerville, the Birthplace of Marshmallow Fluff, from celebrating its most famous and peanutbutter-compatible of culinary inventions at the Third Annual What The Fluff? Festival.......

The federal bailout of the financial industry fails to pass the House. Wall Street and the nation gulp loudly. [NY Times] The Alleged Criminal Formerly Known as Clark Rockefeller was held on a breathtaking $50 million bail; his lawyer offered a breathtaking lesson in tortured logic while denying a kidnapping charge. [USA Today] Sonia Chang-Diaz wins the recount in the contested state Senate primary, but incumbent Dianne Wilkerson will still run to keep her......

The Fluff Festival, a celebration of that delicious Marshmallow Fluff spread, was postponed yesterday. However, the event will happen this afternoon, complete with a surely-exquisite performance by a burlesque troupe, The Flufferettes. Be not worried by the rain! The Somerville Arts Festival has set up tents! The Fluff Festival is Fangela Fangula's favorite Boston-metro event. Be there.......

Each week Bostonist brings you the most contagious of Boston-based viral videos from around the interwebs. To get you pumped for of tomorrow's 3rd Annual What the Fluff? Festival in Somerville, this week Boston Viral Video takes you into the kitchen with Cammy for some creative Fluffernutter cooking. Bon appetit!......

The 3rd Annual What the Fluff? Festival was delayed until Sunday, but will go on tomorrow, rain or shine, from 4pm-7pm. Inspired by state legislature that proposed to ban Fluffernutters from school lunches in 2006, the Fluff festival began as a call to arms for personal freedom and choice of lunch sandwich. The fluffed up bill did not pass, and Somerville, home to the invention of Fluff, continues to rejoice. The question remains, will former......

-- A 23-year-old man was shot in broad daylight yesterday on Mystic Ave. in Somerville. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and no arrests have been made. [Somerville Journal] -- John Hinds, a 66-year-old Cambridge man who was convicted in 2000 of killing two relatives, lost again at trial. His previous conviction had been overturned by the Supreme Judicial Court. [Globe] -- A man was held up delivering Chinese food last night in Jamaica Plain. The assailant's......

-- Boston police arrested a 30-year-old Dorchester man yesterday for the afternoon shooting of a man in the South End. The victim suffered life-threatening injuries. [BPDNews] -- A New Hampshire man was beaten to a bloody pulp by alleged friends in Somerville, authorities say. [Somerville Journal] -- A pair of teenage robbers pulled off a nighttime robbery at a gas station using a stun gun, according to police. One teen, a 19-year-old from Somerville, has......

-- A road rage altercation ended in bloodshed in a Union Square parking lot when a 35-year-old Jamaica Plain man was stabbed by an unknown assailant who escaped the scene. The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries. [Somerville Journal] -- A 28-year-old woman was assaulted on Sacramento Street near Porter Square as she jogged down the stairs of a pedestrian underpass. [Somerville Journal] -- Boston police nabbed a pair of male alleged common nightwalkers during a vice......

-- Charles Cherry, the 66-year-old Roxbury man who was arrested in connection with Friday's murder of a 56-year-old neighbor is a disabled man who suffers from a neurological disorder that keeps him from walking unaided. Police, who originally believed that he had stabbed Elvia McField to death, now say that he shot her with a high-powered rifle after a dispute in his apartment over money. Cherry pleaded not guilty to the charge. [Herald] -- The......

Well, now you know how to get around and where to drink. How about where to get some cheap grub? There's lots of great food in this city, it just takes some exploring to find it. Want some pizza? Try Pizzeria Regina, one of the cornerstones of the North End since 1926. Order a Formaggio Bianco pizza and ask the waitress for some extra garlic olive oil. For Sicilian-style slices, visit Pinocchio's Pizza in......

-- Boston police have DNA evidence linking three sexual assaults that have taken place in Charlestown since August 2007. In each case, the victim had been kidnapped after accepting a ride from the suspect, who drove her to Charlestown and assaulted her, according to police. [BPDNews] -- Manuel Spencer of Cambridge pleaded guilty in August of manslaughter in connection with the 2004 killing of a 25-year-old Lynn man in the parking lot of the former......

-- A high-caliber shooting near Donnelly field left a pair of Cambridge houses riddled by bullets. A pedestrian, who remains at large, fired a .45 caliber pistol at a moving car, according to police. [Cambridge Chronicle] -- A man suspected of shooting a teen in the knee in Union Square last Wednesday was collared by Somerville cops on Friday. The 21-year-old, whom police accuse of shooting the teen after a confrontation at a party, was......

-- Early Sunday morning, police arrested a man in connection with a quadruple stabbing in the North End. The four teenage victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries. [BPDNews] -- A day earlier, on Saturday morning, an unrelated quadruple stabbing sent a quartet of East Boston teens to the hospital, two with life-threatening injuries. Police say that the victims were sitting on a stoop at 85 Trenton St. when they got into a shouting match with a group......

-- Who needs MIT hackers when the MBTA Charlie system can fail on it's own? [Zeroday] -- World-record-breaking attempt or largest scale chain mail scam of all time? Send your business card to this Somerville teen and find out! [Wicked Local Blog] -- Gov. Patrick sat down at the keyboard in Denver for about 40 minutes of live-blogging to answer questions. [Blue Mass Group] -- Abraham Lincoln's version of the afterlife involves riding a......

-- The gruesome June kidnapping that left an Allston man tied to a chair in his burning apartment and bleeding from his eyes was an attempt to steal pounds of pot from a small-time dealer, according to prosecutors. [Universal Hub] -- The marijuana that was found in the car of a Newton fire chief belonged to his grandson. [WBZTV] -- Harvard police might be racists. [WBZTV] -- A man was stabbed in the neck today......

-- A car chase and gun battle ended yesterday evening in Cambridge when a man toting a .45-caliber handgun slipped out of his bullet-perforated car and into the waiting arms of police. The man was allegedly involved in a series of shootings that twisted through the streets of East Cambridge, stretching down Pine St. and up Main St. to Bishop Allen Dr. Three different crime scenes were established, and authorities believe that somebody fired upon......

The sign is from Somerville, not the 80s, but we, like blue socks, still think of Eddy Grant.......

-- An independent panel released a report today that accuses the Boston Police Department of shoddy police work, when it comes to policing itself. The panel ruled that five police misconduct cases out of 19 that it reviewed had been mishandled. Witnesses had been intimidated or ignored and leaps of logic had been used to clear cops in those cases, which the panel recommends be reexamined. The panel was formed after a 2004 incident in......