Rumor has it that Burlington's own Amy Poehler may soon leave Saturday Night Live to join Massachusetts natives Steve Carell, B.J. Novak, and John Krasinski on "The Office." A Boston College alum, Poehler is known for (wo)manning the SNL newsdesk, imitating HRC, and playing that incredibly terrible one-legged farting character. (We really hope that's not who--or what--she's going to be on "The Office.") Might Conan forego his upcoming Tonight Show gig to become the next......

Bostonist couldn't help but get misty-eyed when we read on Boston.com of how Newton teen Nathan Alden Robinson was posthumously honored during NBC's mini-marathon of "The Office" on Thursday night. Robinson, 15, died in March of of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, pneumonia, and influenza; the youth was a budding piano talent and a huge fan of the NBC television show. As the Globe noted in its obituary, Robinson learned the show's theme song a few weeks......

Given our current state of divisive affairs - debate about the war, the ever-intensifying drama between presidential candidates, New York versus Boston - it's somewhat nice to know that there's one thing the vast majority of the American people can agree on: we're in The Office withdrawal. It's unclear at the present how long we will remain unified as one nation missing Michael Scott, given that the Writers Guild of America and the majors are......

The problems at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner haven't gone away with the departure of Mark Flomenbaum. In December, someone at the office picked up the wrong body from a Brockton hospital. While the incident didn't go quite as far as the wrong body winding up in someone else's grave, the employee was clearly confused. Luckily, someone at the South Boston office realized they had the wrong person and returned the body to......

What is it about Boston and bomb threats? This afternoon, someone allegedly brought a package into a post office, set it on the counter, and said it was a bomb, WCVB reports. The man took the package into the office on Avenue DeLafayette and gave the clerk a note that said, "This is a bomb. Put your 20s and 50s in the box or I'll blow this place up." She gave him $40. In its......

Mark A. Flomenbaum, the former Chief Medical Examiner who was dismissed after the office of the Chief Medical Examiner was revealed to be an unsanitary hellhole, is suing because he feels "Governor Deval Patrick lacked grounds to dismiss him." Okay, okay, all charges alleged. But a body went missing. The Herald reported blood on the floor and a "constant stench of decomposition." If that's not grounds for dismissal, then what is? In terms of sheer......

--The Office of Health and Human Services has allowed the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center to use skin-shock treatments for another year, even after the incident in which a prank caller caused staff members to shock two of the center's residents. [WBZ] --Yankee Swap turns Yankee Scrooge when two ex-friends fight over a lotto ticket. [Boston Herald] --The Paradise might be sold to the same guy who owns Lir and Live Nation. [Boston Globe] --Speaking......

Mayor Thomas Menino probably won't be happy with today's Boston Herald. The lead story paints a picture of Menino as a master player of the blame game. The article seems to be the result of Menino's rage after the snowstorm mess. Jessica Van Sack writes that people noticed Menino didn't step up and admit that any of those problems were his fault. It's old-school "you smelt it, you dealt it" politics. The piece suggests that......

Roger Clemens is an unhappy man today. At least, his lawyer is. Attorney Rusty Hardin responded to Roger's prominence in the Mitchell Report by saying, "He is left with no meaningful way to combat what he strongly contends are false allegations." We remember something in the report about Mitchell requesting an interview with Clemens and being turned down. Perhaps that was a mistake. For Clemens and the rest of the names on the list, it's......

Sunday's BPD Blotter described a woman who had a little too much to drink at an office Christmas party. Police found Kimberly M. Simon, 28, of Newton, sleeping at the wheel of her car, which was running. Further investigation revealed that she was plowed and that she got plowed at the office party. It got weird when police took Simon to the station: On arrival to the station, the suspect urinated on the floor of......

--Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of Ted Kennedy and JFK, mother to Maria Shriver, and mother-in-law to Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been hospitalized at Mass General, although no one is saying why. She is 86. [Boston Globe] --Today marks the last day of Bob's Southern Bistro and the opening of some generic swanky watering hole. [WBZ] --With the departure of the infamous Mark Flomenbaum, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is disinfecting its hazardous practices by......

MBTA employees are not endearing themselves to the public this week. First there was the driver on the C Line who injured a passenger by hitting the brakes at a bad time. She expressed her concern by going out for a smoke. Then there's the creep who made fake passes for the blind, which he sold to people who could see. Now there's the bonehead who wore a noose to the MBTA office for Halloween.......

Did you need another reason to grow a mustache for Movember? Well, if you're a fan of The Office, we think Jim, Dwight, and Michael gave you three pretty good reasons last night: We especially like Dwight's dapper upturned 'stache, but we definitely recommend avoiding the, uh, backseat activity he attempted in the show. At least have the decency to warn/ask your fellow passengers if you're desperate enough to give it a try. And though......

Sit back and imagine that you're with the Massachusetts Division of Professional Licensure, and it's your job to distribute disks chock-full of names and addresses for those who have professional licenses in the state of Massachusetts. You distribute these disks because marketing firms want them thanks to the public records law. That doesn't sound so hard. So you use the office's new software to gather and generate this information. Then you let it run and......

--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......

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Three people were shot yesterday afternoon in Dorchester on Morse Street. One of them was shot in the chest, and the other two have "non-life-threatening" injuries. Police commissioner Ed Davis referred to a "gang motivation" behind the shooting and that the incident might be tied to guns that the police seized on Wednesday night. The Herald interviewed people in the neighborhood who were more specific, and they said it had something to do with a......

Clay Buchholz is coming! The Red Sox have groomed and nurtured their up-and-coming phenom, and will turn him loose on an unsuspecting American Leage this afternoon. Well, not entirely unsuspecting, since it's been pretty widely reported. He has explosive stuff (if no gyroball), good command, and a great attitude, says everyone who's worked with him in the farm system. And he gets his first crack in the bigs today against the [Your Municipality Here] Angels.......

Former state Senate president-turned-lobbyist Robert Travaglini, fondly known around here as "T-Vag," tried to save the hide of the recently fired state medical examiner, Mark Flomenbaum. Last week, T-Vag went to the Flomenbaum's disciplinary hearing, which the Globe notes isn't the norm. T-Vag's partner, who was defending Flomenbaum at the hearing, summed up what T-Vag was trying to communicate: "There is a genuine desire by Dr. Flomenbaum to complete the mission." T-Vag & Co. apparently......

Chief medical examiner Mark Flomenbaum has been given the official heave. Governor Deval Patrick has apparently had enough with the swapped bodies, bloody floors, and decomposing corpses. The Herald summed up the Flomenbaum Era at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in three words: "severe management breakdowns." If all reports are true, that's an understatement. An independent report outlines all the breakdowns in gory detail. Perhaps the last straw for Patrick wasn't the independent......

--We're not saying Northeastern University students like to urinate on stuff. But first it was the onions, and then it was the time-honored closet of the roommate. The NU crime log says, An intoxicated 20-year-old male student walked into his roommate's bedroom in West Village A, urinated in his closet and returned to his own bed. He will be reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution. We just find it interesting......

We're wondering if Romney asks a higher power to smite his enemies. Rudy Giuliani's campaign stoked Mormon Fear by sending out a release linking the Mormon's candidacy to a weird prophecy about a Mormon riding in on a white horse. During the Republican debate, lightning struck and cut out the sound while Giuliani was speaking. The photo above shows Romney aiming a finger at Giuliani 'cuz he probably thought the Lord was pulling through.......

This time, it's personal. Sean Linehan, the son of brand-new City Council member Bill Linehan, has told police he was the victim of random violence. He said that, after a late-night meal at Teriyaki House following his dad's victory party, he "accidentally walked into a brawl on the sidewalk." He was stabbed in the upper back, which "pierced his lung and broke a rib." And his father is starting his City Council term royally pissed......

Mark Flomenbaum might be breathing a little easier tonight. State police figured out what happened to the body of Thomas Brissette. Even though the body was found, the results are still embarrassing for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Brissette's body went to a funeral home and was buried under someone else's name. Oops! During their investigation, state police realized the corpse mixup and went to the grave intended for that corpse. They found......

Two men have been arrested for the murder of Chiara Levin in March. 34-year-old Manuel Andrade of Dorchester and 21-year-old Casimiro Barros of Roxbury will be arraigned on Monday in Dorchester District Court. A press release from the office of Suffolk DA Daniel Conley describes how the events leading up to Levin's murder unfolded: "[At the Caprice Lounge] she and her friends met Manuel Andrade and two other men. Levin and her friends went with......

What do two guys from the greater Boston area talk about on late night television? Easter candy of course. Last week B.J. Novak, a Newton native and star of the office, was on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Conan's from Brookline and is a Harvard alum.) B.J. was on Conan to promote his new movie Rain Over Me but like many late night TV interviews it took a little while to get there. They started......

--Sure, a little disorderly is expected on St. Patrick's Day. But some Dropkick Murphys fans took it to the limit at the band's show yesterday. The BPD rounded up six fans who had been ejected and weren't very happy about it. One of the guys, a Belmont resident, got so upset that he "punched and kicked several security guards." --More disorderly took place early this morning when two Dorchester guys got into it in front......

Judging by the terrible conditions of the state medical examiner's office in the South End, CSI: Boston would be more like the Keystone Cops than a riveting nighttime drama. It's amazing that the employees could solve any crime given the fact that bodies are piling up like cordwood. According to the Herald, a bunch of dead bodies jammed up in one place results in truly nauseating conditions such as "a half-dozen infants stored on shelves,"......

--A man blew up himself and his estranged girlfriend in an elevator in Lynn. It was a terrible, senseless act. The woman took out a restraining order, but then she had it lifted. But, given this guy's extreme behavior, who knows if it would have made a difference? The AP reports through the Daily Item: "Court records showed a restraining order had been issued against Echevairria [the alleged attacker] on Jan. 8 after his girlfriend,......

The chatter is swelling this week about St. Patrick's Day. On a sunny day with temperatures nearing 70 around Boston it is a wonderful day to think about the parade in South Boston on Saturday. Unfortunately the weather isn't looking so hot for the end of this week – so we've got to plan on how we're going to wear our green (if it's going to be a rain slicker or winter parka - the......