Results tagged “sovereignbank”

• Four new cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Mass.; as many as nine Harvard students may have H1N1. [Globe]
• Some kind of horse race tomorrow. [NYT]
• A flight from Munich to Washington was diverted to Boston due to a passenger's flu symptoms. The passenger was deplaned and taken to MGH; the plane continued on to DC. [WBZ]

• White flakes are falling from the sky. They are wet and cold. What is this strange substance, surely never before seen in New England? One theory: "snow." And we might get 10 inches of it. [Globe]
• James Aloisi is our new transportation secretary. [Herald]
• Sovereign Bank, recently bought by Banco Santander, is going to cut over 100 jobs. [WBZTV]

-- The Roxbury man found shot in Mattapan on July 4 died from his injuries on Tuesday. Michael Wiggins was 22 years old and found near Arbutus and Ashton streets before he was rushed to Boston Medical Center. Police have upgraded the investigation to a murder investigation as a result. -- Banks are becoming the new candy shoppes: The Bank of America on Cambridge Street was robbed at gunpoint at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, the...

-- It appears that the Bonbon Bandit's list of suspected crimes is growing longer by the day. A Dunkin Donuts on Brookline Street was held up on Saturday afternoon (yep, middle of the day on a Saturday - how 'bout that for brazen?) and the suspect matches the description of the man police have been searching for in possible connection to more than 20 commercial robberies. That's right, the possible total is now up to...

--Tempers flared with the temperature last night in Dorchester and East Boston. As three men stood across the street from the Dorchester YMCA, shots were fired, leaving two people wounded and one in critical condition. A little later in East Boston, one man got shot, and another got hit "in the back of the head with a blunt object, reportedly a hatchet." A hatchet?!? We're getting nervous with all these sharp weapons like machetes and...