New York and Washington, D.C., are facing a terror threat related to Sunday's 9/11 anniversary. While there is no specific threat to Boston, we're panicking being extremely cautious and increasing police patrols anyway. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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State Trooper Randy Enos and his dog, Chipp, were struck by lightning Friday on Perimeter Road at Logan Airport. [WCVB] Three Suffolk Superior Court judges barred striking Verizon workers from blocking access to company buildings and offices. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Delays in telephone lines, Internet and television service for Verizon customers were allegedly caused by sabotge to cables in the Northeast. Almost 6,000 Bay State Verizon workersare on strike, along with 800 in Rhode Island. Service was disrupted in Tewksbury and Billerica as a result of one such cut cable. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Barnstable native Kevin Houston, 36, of Chesapeake, Virginia was one of the 30 Americans killed Saturday in Afghanistan when a military helicopter was shot down. Houston was one of 22 Navy SEALs killed. The helicopter was on a mission to help Army Rangers in an ongoing battle. [WCVB] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Niketown Boston has no official agreement with the Boston Marathon. The Newbury Street store is still planning a series of events to prep runners for the April 18 race. Look for expert training, weekly runs on Wednesdays evenings, free shoe tests, and more before race day. Winning brews in the 2011 Samuel Adams LongShot American Homebrew Contest - Category 23 are being sold in a six-pack. The pack includes two bottles of Richard Roper's Friar Hop Ale, Rodney Kibzey's Blackened Hops, and Caitlin DeClercq's Honey B's Lavender Wheat. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Verizon telephone and Internet customers in the Back Bay and at Boston University lost service after a cable was accidentally cut last night. Verizon doesn't know how many clients were affected. The service should be back today. Hopefully, it won't affect fantasy football picks at BU. [Globe]
- State Rep. David Torrisi (D) showed off his potty mouth in an e-mail to WTKK's host Michael Graham’s producer yesterday over an appearance about illegal immigration. [Boston Herald]
- Siobhan Magnus of Cape Cod appeared on the "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" today after she was eliminated from American Idol on Wednesday. She said she is okay. [Cape Cod Times]
- Forty kids from King Philip Regional High School will be in Boston today to take part in Oprah Winfrey's No Phone Zone safety campaign. [Attleboro Sun Chronicle]
NYC is going all FiOS, but Boston's getting left in the fiber-optic wayside. ArsTechnica opines that Mayor Menino's desire (which the Globe supports) to tax telecom companies like Verizon for the infrastructures they establish here may be keeping the city a few steps behind when it comes to connectedness. There may be other factors at work, too: though you'd think a city would be easy to wire due to its density, the Globe points out that cities also have a lot more problems to deal with: faulty or outdated infrastructure is common, as is landlord resistance. Verizon media relations dude Phil Santoro confirms that the company is committed to bringing FiOS to Boston, but couldn't give a timeline. We imagine FiOs will eventually make it up here, but whether its arrival will be affordable remains to be seen. In the meantime, we'll have plenty of opportunities to eat donuts (ordered in semi-high-tech fashion) while we wait.
Today, "internet safety experts" will train law enforcement officers about sexting, which apparently refers to "the sending of sexually explicit photographs over cell phones," though we mistakenly thought it just referred to sending dirty texts. Guess we're behind the times, and have never sexted ourselves! Rats. Regardless, internet safety seminars covering sext-ed, online bullying, and identity theft will be offered throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island this week. It seems silly, in some ways, but young people do need to know how to protect themselves—and behave properly—online and on cell phones. Let's hope the seminars are actually helpful and not just a waste of students' time.
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