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A 5.8 earthquake hit 83 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., in Mineral, Virginia around 2 p.m. on Tuesday and was felt up-and-down the Eastern Seaboard, even in Boston. The quake was felt in Boston and forced the evacuation of US District Court in South Boston and the UMass Boston campus in Dorchester. Despite those and other lower-scale evacuations, no real damage was found in Boston. more ›

With labor unions at odds with state government's around the country, the Dorchester Speaker’s Forum presentation on Friday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. involving Labor Historian James Green is an exceptionally timely and informative event. Green, also a UMass Boston professor, can provide more context to the news. The lecture is free to the public and is scheduled for Peabody Hall at All Saints Church, 209 Ashmont St. in Dorchester, adjacent to Ashmont Station. The church parking lot offers free parking. Green will take questions after the lecture. He runs the graduate program in public history, teaches a course on the history of Boston, and is the research director for the PBS series The Great Depression. more ›

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is the commencement speaker at Babson College this year. Thre graduation ceremony is set for May 14 in Wellesley. Stone dropped out of Northeastern and UMass Boston. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. more ›

At least three men broke into the Dorchester apartment of a UMass-Boston student Wednesday looking for marijuana they believed her roommate had. The suspects were reportedly looking for "Josh" and asked twice "Where’s the weed?" The victim was tied up with a cellphone charger cord. [Globe] more ›

• The Boston area, including Cambridge and Quincy, is the eighth-most congested traffic region in the country. Boston has ranked eight for three years straight. [Boston Business Journal]

• After two students were expelled for bullying a South Hadley High School freshman, the town is developing an anti-bullying task force to find something good in the midst of a tragedy. [WCVB]

Some major-league punkings went down today. One of them included a gag from the Weekly Dig, which proclaimed in its Daily Dig that Radiohead would be doing a free benefit for the Oxfam Cafe. They even threw in a must-see video promo. more ›

--Nancy Pelosi is coming into town on April 4 to speak at the inauguration of former US Rep Marty Meehan as he becomes chancellor of UMass-Lowell. [Boston Globe] more ›

--BPD News was still down the last time we checked. We feel adrift. But we saw a few entries on Wicked Local … --Police arrested individuals involved in a "cutting party" in Sudbury on Tuesday. Norman Miller of the MetroWest Daily News described the incident as "booze-fueled." The cutting also enters a gray legal area because the cutting may have been consensual. The lawyer said that Sarah Handy, 23, cut Meagan Hauff, 21, both of... more ›

--The man shot yesterday on Harvard Street in Dorchester was leaving a funeral when he was hit. The man, 17, is in critical condition. According to the Globe, the funeral was for Charles Bunch, who died on October 14, possibly as a result of gang activity. Michele McPhee's sources ID'd the victim as David Johnson. She also noted that Johnson and the person who shot him were both wearing memorial buttons for Charles Bunch. --On... more ›

Election Commissioner Geraldine Cuddyer faces an expensive election to eliminate one candidate before the next City Council elections. The Election Commission is required by law to hold a primary election to winnow the field when the number of candidates is more than double the available seats. There are currently nine names to appear on the ballot for four available at-large City Council seats, the nine needs to become eight by the city's election law. Cuddyer... more ›

Since McGrory took over the Metro Editor post at the Globe, we've only got Alex Beam's column to look forward to for our dose of ridiculous controversy on Wednesdays. Today we took the hook and got excited that he'd be giving us the scoop about Boston University rebranding as Boston's University. With the controversy, and imminent no confidence vote, at UMass Boston we thought he had some juice to share. We were wrong about the... more ›

Last week UMass-Amherst faculty and librarians got together and took a vote. 214 stood, one remained sitting. The resounding message was that the faculty of the flagship campus in the university system was none too pleased with the recently released plan by system president Jack Wilson. The hometown team, UMass-Boston faculty, had scheduled their at bat against Wilson and the Trustees for today – but that vote has been postponed. The Globe reports that after... more ›

Gail Mazur, Robert Pinsky, Lloyd Schwartz, and Rosanna Warren will be reading at the ICA on the HarborWalk at 6:30 pm tomorrow, Thursday, May 3. Free first-come, first-serve tickets will be available an hour before the reading. The ICA and UMass Boston are celebrating Emily Dickinson - the ultimate Massachusetts literary institution - tomorrow night. The ICA is installing a visual display of Dickinson's 695 (As if the Sea should part), and four poets will... more ›

Public Radio Talent Quest is live and taking submissions and your vote. Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have teamed up and are giving away $70,000 and a shot at creating your very own radio show. The contest opened on Monday and is taking entries from radio wannabes. They host the entries and feed them to the team of judges. Oh, wait, did we say team? We meant everyone who visits... more ›