-- A pair of teenagers from Newton are being held without bail after pleading not guilty today to murder, armed robbery, and firearms charges in Superior Court in Woburn. in the fatal shooting of a Waltham man. The teens allegedly killed a man they planned to steal drugs from. Two other suspects were indicted by a grand jury Tuesday. [Globe]
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A Pearl Harbor Day memorial service took place today at the Charlestown Navy Yard. [Boston Herald]
Tonight's Weezer concert at Agganis Arena has been cancelled after Rivers Cuomo has been injured in a bus crash. [CNN]
Boston City Council is looking to ban texting behind the wheel. [Boston Globe]
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Three of four men have survived a boat crash near the Merrimack River, and the causes are under investigation. [Boston Channel]
As expected, the next overpriced Fenway concert will be Paul McCartney in August. [Boston Music Spotlight]
Construction workers at the MFA find an letter from construction worker that was written in 1926. [Boston Globe]
When treasurer and legislature don't communicate, it can be a $25 million budget gaffe. [Boston Herald]
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There might a bunch of issues after you crash a green line trolley on Friday while texting your soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend, but it must really suck to have a goofy MySpace photo too. [Boston Globe]
"Clark Rockefeller" is going to have his trial in Boston, but everyone knows he's a creep in every jurisdiction. [Boston Herald]
The Duckling Parade made its way across the Common and Charles Street without a texting accident. [Magic Cookie]
Mothers and families went to see lilacs at the Arboretum. [The Babies B]
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Texting while driving is illegal. At least one survey debated its effectiveness and some think it's not enforceable. Regardless, 37 drivers were ticketed for texting while driving during the first week the law was in effect. [WBZ]
- Bay State hospitals like Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Children’s Hospital issued bonuses to thousands of workers as both institutions had good years. [Boston Herald]
- Details on the sale of Caritas Christi Health Care are still being ironed out. [Boston Globe]
- A gubernatorial debate will be moved from Tuesday, October 26 to Monday, October 25 to avoid conflict with the Boston Celtics' season-opening game against the Miami Heat. [Boston Globe]
- The Boston public schools will offer extra help to the 8,300 students in Boston who don't fully speak English. [Boston Globe]
- Can you get a "green" phone? [WBZ]
- Some Natick High School students want the school to allow iPods in the library and during study hall periods depite a school ban on iPods. [WBZ]
- As the texting-while-driving ban takes effect on Thursday, a new study says it won't help. [Boston Globe]
Bostonist loves using technology and gadgets. Except while driving cars or T vehicles. We also know people like companies who tweet.
- Why did two homeowners decide to paint their home in old Chatham Village lime green and yellow? [WBZ]
- President Obama’s aunt was granted asylum in May. The text of the decision was released Monday, and her case being leaked to the media had a lot to do with the ruling. [Boston Globe]
Now that texting while driving is on its way to being banned, there's a service that can help you report bad drivers, including texters... possibly by texting (or something similar)! CarPong is a service that allows you to post information about cars by license plate number, providing a way to alert assholes of their sucky driving, compliment nice rides, muse about your own vehicle, or fling insults. Over the weekend, this Bostonist was wishing for a way to alert a car owner of his/her vehicle's incessant car alarm; this might've been an apt method. The service currently seems to be based online rather than through text messaging, even featuring email instead of SMS alerts, but that doesn't mean folks won't access it through their cell phones, or that it won't have a texting component soon. So is this a good way to dis on bad drivers, or just another dangerous driving activity (not to mention a possible privacy threat for those wary about connecting license plate and personal data)? Time will tell if it catches on and develops more useful components.
- Voters appear disinterested in today's special primary election as the turnout is reportedly very light. [Boston Globe]
- Vicki Kennedy is now on the board of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., thanks to an appointment from President Obama. [PoliticsDaily.com]
Transportation is a big problem in Massachusetts. Let's recap, shall we?
We have traffic, of course, texting trolley drivers, tunnels that kill people, government officials more interested in a feud than what commuters pay for public transportation, near collisions at the airport, a rash of crashes with older drivers.
Before there was texting, we lived in a world filled with proper grammar and safety in public transportation. Now, in 2009, the Wall Street Journal - of all places - is giving us a primer on the correct terminology to use while texting. Well, the advice on investing gig didn't end well, did it? The article suggests the increasing prominence of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook has made texting ubiqutous. Kids use abbreviations to talk in a code parents don't get. Parents are learning terms kids use in order to keep tabs on kids. Texting shorthand is also seeping into work communication more and more. The Journal refers to sites like NetLingo.com that define terms like HBASTD (Hitting Bottom And Starting To Dig) for texters. Merriam-Webster Dictionary is now defining a term like OMG.
On June 1st last year, the National Transportation Safety Board recreated last May's green line crash in order to gain more insight into what happened that fateful day. More than a year later, the board has released its report, which indicates that the car's driver ran through a properly functioning signal en route to the crash. While driver Terrese Edmonds' train did run a working signal, the crash was caused by hitting a train stopped at a malfunctioning signal. This broken signal had been stuck on red for some time; investigators found that broken track section connections were the cause of the perpetual stop sign.
After Friday night's texting-caused crash and yesterday's investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, the Green Line is back in business at Government Center. As of this morning, trains were running as normal through the station.
The Globe reports that the driver in today's Green Line crash at Government Center was texting while driving, or T operating. Texting, or at least cell phone use, was also blamed in last summer's Green Line crash on the D line that killed the driver.
Bostonist can't resist the lingo of the BPD Blotter!
As it becomes more likely that the use of handheld gadgets while driving will be banned, the Globe tossed out a thought worth debating--if drivers are still allowed to use headsets, will they drive better? Or is the mere act of talking the problem?
The House voted 107-47 to ban the use of handheld gadgets while driving. Using a headset is OK, but anyone caught with a gadget in hand will be fined $100.
The Joint Committee on Transportation has approved a bill that bans the use of using a handheld gadget while driving, and the Massachusetts House of Representatives will vote on the bill next, the Globe reports.
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]
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