--So, just how many new construction jobs will the casinos proposed by Governor Deval Patrick create? He said 30,000. An independent analyst says no way: "... building three casinos at a cost of $1 billion each in Massachusetts would create a total of 4,000 to 5,000 new construction jobs for the duration of the building period, probably three years." [Boston Globe] --Now this is cool--A look at BNN's studios in an old Roxbury substation.......

--A judge set the bail for Damion Jamaal-Anthony Haley, the man who allegedly fired a gun into a crowd of brawling partygoers at Aria over the weekend, at $1 million. [WBZ] --Four people sustained injuries after trying to get off a train before it stopped at Whitman Station yesterday afternoon. [MetroWest Daily News] --Looks like people are getting the Baby Safe Haven message. Last year, people delivered five newborns (two stillborn) to hospitals. Baby......

Update: At least someone found humor in the hoodie. Let the finger-pointing begin. Whose fault was it that the New England Patriots lost to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl? Tom Brady? Bill Belichick? Or was it ... Bill Belichick's new hoodie? Bostonist blames the hoodie. Belichick came out in a hoodie with the sleeves cut off at three quarters, but the hoodie was in a hot-red shade that no one could miss.......

We are optimistic about many things. We're optimistic about the Bruins' chances when it comes to the Stanley Cup. We're optimistic that the Red Sox will manage to land Johan Santana while keeping Jacoby Ellsbury on the roster. We're optimistic that the San Diego Charges will, after being defeated soundly at Gillette on Sunday, line up as a team at the 50-yard-line and bow down before Brady and Moss. We can be optimistic all we......

One can imagine that San Diego sports writers and fans are gleefully rubbing their hands together now that Patriot Randy Moss is distracted by accusations that he injured a woman. San Diego Union-Tribune writer Chris Jenkins has a piece titled, "Moss Has Switched to Playing Defense." However, Bostonist is happy to say that Jenkins reined in the schadenfreude and pretty much reported the incident straight, other than the defense pun. Like the Herald, which has......

The Pentagon has announced that Army Specialist Christine M. Ndururi, 21, of Dracut, died on Tuesday. The military has stated the cause of death was an "unspecified illness." Her family wants to know what happened now because it was the first day of her first overseas mission. Her father told the Eagle-Tribune that she hadn't been sick: "I’m waiting for them to tell me what happened. She was not ill, unless she was ill after......

This post has been reprinted courtesy ofBrock Keeling at SFist. Yes, this is Bostonist, but, if you want to send help to Southern California, this is a place to start. As of now, six people have died and more than 500,000 people are in "mass migration" over the mind-numbingly destructive wildfires happening all throughout Southern California. It is, for lack of a better word, heartbreaking. All of it. (Map of San Diego fires) But......

First, the good news for Yaderlin Hiraldo Jimenez, the wife of missing American soldier and Lawrence resident Alex Jimenez - after all the sturm und drang und red tape, she got her green card! The Eagle Tribune, which has been running a series on Jimenez and his family spoke with her about how she's feeling. She said, " "I feel relieved and thankful for those who supported me." She also discussed the pain of not......

Troops found the ID cards of two of the missing men, including Sgt. Alex Jimenez of Lawrence. The cards were located in an "al-Qaeda safe house." Jimenez was captured on May 12. A group had claimed that Jimenez and another soldier who went missing on the same day were dead, but no bodies have been found. Three soldiers were taken in the original May 12 ambush. One of them was killed, and his body was......

Until May 21, representative Jim McGovern is seeing how some of his constituents live by taking the Food Stamps Challenge. He and his wife, Lisa, are living on food stamps and blogging about the simple fact that living on a food-stamp budget sucks. The challenge started on the 15th, and CNN aired coverage of the representative involved in the challenge forlornly picking at iceberg lettuce and lentils. But these meals haven't prompted McGovern to cheat.......

The Ron Borges been-caught-stealin' story ain't over. The Globe reporter who was suspended for two months without pay for taking content from the Tacoma News Tribune has stirred up quite the ethical debate over at Deadspin. Deadspin has drawn the line between "pooling" content and stealing content, and Borges definitely did the latter. One reporter offered the "we did this in the '80s" defense. Well, not everything from the '80s was a good idea. Exhibit......

The initials "GM" have taken on an entirely new meaning for the Red Sox of late. "Gigantic Mess" seems appropriate. It's been two weeks since the press conference where we saw Theo Epstein depart the position everyone assumed he'd hold until at least his twenty-year reunion at Yale. It's been two weeks since we saw principal owner John Henry, at the very same press conference, speak in a manner of disbelief usually reserved for those......

Ever since Patriots owner Robert Kraft gave Russian President Vladimir Putin his Super Bowl Championship Ring, to look at, Bostonist has been resorting to our childhood phrase: "see with your eyes not with your hands." Kraft made a statement on patriots.com yesterday afternoon that the ring was, in fact, a gift to the Russian President, and not a misinterpreted gesture. No word from Vladi on how he might return the favor to Kraft. Perhaps with......