A man died and another was seriously injured when their speedboat capsized in Boston Harbor and broke up on Saturday. Michael Spirito was pronounced dead at the scene. In a second incident, another man is missing after falling overboard in Marshfield harbor on Saturday night. The Coast Guard and Marshfield emergency workers are looking for the boater. The driver was charged with operating under the influence. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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RIP, Billy Ruane, a giant of the Boston music scene who died of a heart attack. [Boston Herald]
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The state Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to cut unrestricted general government state aid by 7%. Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy said baseball must keep ticket prices affordable. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Firefighters in Taunton used water from a fire truck to fight a Sunday fire as hydrants didn't work.
Three Seekonk High School students were arrested today in connection with the death of Jacob Mayo in a hit-and-run crash on I-195 last month. A 20-year old woman from Warren was charged with leaving the scene of an accident after causing personal injury. The Seekonk teens are charged with "three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, trespassing on a state highway, throwing an object onto a state highway, malicious destruction of personal property over $250, and attempt to commit a crime." [Globe]
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Former President Bill Clinton came to Massachusetts to campaign for two Democrats.
For the first time in recent memory, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank is working hard at getting reelected.
-- Framingham police made multiple arrests recently involving possible drug deals. A 32-year old Worcester man was arrested for allegedly selling crack cocaine; A 15-year old from Framingham faces several drug charges after police found marijuana in his possession; A 45-year old Framingham man was arrested for allegedly stealing a motorized scooter on Saturday and was in possession of prescription medications he had no prescription for; A Framingham man was robbed at gunpoint while trying to buy marijuana Tuesday. [MetroWest Daily News]
The summer-long rash of injuries continues to hit the Massachusettts State Police. An accident on Saturday in Taunton marked the fourth time in the past month that a state trooper has been struck by a car while on duty. Trooper Corey Rose had stopped a vehicle when another car crashed into Rose's car. The driver of the third car who allegedly struck Rose was charged with drunk driving, released on bail, and faced an arraigment in Taunton District Court on Monday. Both drivers and Rose suffered minor injuries. Two troopers were injured July 4th weekend in Cambridge and Peabody. State Police Sgt. Doug Weddleton of Brockton was killed in a drunk-driving accident in June. All charges alleged until proven under law.
- Six employees of the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad have been suspended without pay after a clandestine entertainment room was discovered at the Boston Engine Terminal in Somerville. The entertainment room featured three TVs, two DVD players, a video game system, and some of pornographic DVDs. [Boston Globe]
- Christmas broke out in Gloucester when a Disney toy was mistaken for a dangerous device. [Boston Globe]
-- Tormu Prall, the fugitive wanted in connection with a New Jersey arson-homicide, and whom Boston police unwittingly released, is now wanted in connection with a case of suspected arson in Cambridge. Police believe that Prall may have set fire to a Broadway apartment building to smoke out a former girlfriend. Prall is said to frequent Boston and Cambridge homeless shelters as well as the streets of Central Square. [Cambridge Chronicle; Globe]
-- A man killed himself after shooting a co-worker at the Alloy Fabricators of New England in Randolph this morning. Howard Trang, 48 of Dorchester, allegedly barged into the factory with a .45 caliber pistol, shot 52 year-old Gene Dure in the arm and abdomen, and turned the weapon on himself. Police have not advanced a motive. Dure was taken to Caritas Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton. No word on his condition. [Herald; Globe]
After a man texting behind the wheel struck and killed a Taunton teenager, some legislators would like to introduce a bill that bans texting while driving.
--Craig Bigos, who hit a teenager while driving in Taunton, took off, and later surrendered to police, admitted that he was texting while driving. He initially thought the 13-year-old he hit was a mailbox. [Boston Globe]
-- A pair of shootings remain mysteries. At 10:13 Friday, police responding to calls in Roxbury found a black male in his 20s suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. And at 2:45 this morning, police found a man shot multiple times on Torrey Street in Dorchester. Both victims are at Boston Medical Center being treated. No suspects have been arrested in either case. -- A Taunton man was found by police shot dead inside a parked...
--Twenty-five enterprising members of the BPD found a way to make over $200,000 last year. 121 police officers make more money than Commish Ed Davis. This information goes to show how much money goes into the police details, and how much it would save if the state went with Governor Deval Patrick's plan to use flagmen instead of details at construction sites. --WBZ' I-Team found that Massachusetts State Troopers caused "nearly 500 crashes in their...
--After a lengthy undercover operation called "Operation Roadkill," the feds took down 15 alleged members of the Outlaws, a biker gang based in Taunton. In the raid, they picked up large quantities of drugs and, as Boston NOW gleefully noted, a stripper pole. We're not sure how the feds took the stripper pole from the house without leaving significant damage behind, but, by golly, the feds were going to take that stripper pole as evidence!...
How can your resist a headline like "Panty Thieves Hit Victoria's Secret"? Someone with a hardcore drawers fetish swiped over 100 pairs of undies at a mall in Taunton. But the AP really dropped the ball because they didn't say if the thieves preferred thongs, briefs, high-thighs, or Granny panties.
Now, Bostonist doesn't like to make light of serious matters that could, potentially, have led to tragedy, but damn, this is amusing. A woman from Brockton, formerly a waitress at a strip club there and another in Stoughton, was so fed up with mistreatment by men that she mailed condoms containing drano and gasoline (an almost-but-not-quite-explosive combination) to various locations she apparently felt were good representatives of male wrongdoing: Bridgewater State College (?!), the Taunton...
If you have ever played the popular game, Jenga, you have experienced the feeling of waiting for something to fall. Well, the big news story in Massachusetts today kind of has that same feeling. Some 2,000 residents in Taunton have been told to evacuate their homes while the 173-year-old Whittenton Pond Dam is on the verge of breaking, which would allow the Mill River to flow through the downtown. Since the New England area got dumped on with that lovely rain-storm-cold air mass that seemed to make itself at home for a week, the river started to overflow, causing stress on the dam, which if it breaks, could send a six foot way through the city's downtown area. The city's mayor declared that the water level has indeed dropped today and of course, Mitt has gotten the state involved by having all the "high risk" state dams inspected.
The Globe reports today on moves taken by the Boston Licensing commission to put the kibosh on an "ultimate fighting" event scheduled for this Saturday at the Roxy. Apparently, the sport -- in which fighters in caged rings face off kicking and punching each other -- "is not something the city of Boston is going to sanction" according to the Globe:
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