-- Benjamin L. Makinen stabbed a stranger to death yesterday in Worcester, according to police. The 23-year-old Worcester man, whom his attorneys claim suffers from mental illness, walked into a triple decker, knocked on a second floor door and allegedly stabbed Shelleigh Wilcox to death before calling 911 to turn himself in. [Worcester Telegram Gazette] -- The Herald is leading the charge to capture Massachusetts's most wanted sex offenders. [Herald] -- Woburn, already the by-word......

-- Neil Entwistle was convicted on two counts of first degree murder today. He shot his wife and 9-month-old daughter. The defense, and Entwistle's surviving family, maintain that he is innocent. The minimum sentence in Massachusetts for first degree murder is life imprisonment without parole. Luckily for the Herald and Globe, who can't seem to find any other juicy crime story, Entwistle's case will undergo an automatic review by the Supreme Judicial Court. [Globe] --......

--What is going on with all these tanker accidents? Another tanker crashed this morning in Woburn. It appears that injuries were minor, but I-93 South was shut down. [WBZ] --Brookline resident Yang Jianli will walk 500 miles from Boston to Washington DC to draw attention to human rights violations in China. The subject is close to his heart--he survived a Chinese prison camp and the Tiananmen Square massacre. [BU Daily Free Press] --It's going......

A story about hookers would usually be part of the Boston Blotter, but the sudden burst of coverage in the Suburban Hooker Plague deserves its own post. Bostonist is underwhelmed by the Suburban Hooker Plague because prostitution happens all the time in the city, and prostitution-related incidents are so common that they rarely rank on the Blotter. That is, unless the BPD's ongoing "Operation Squeeze" nets a lot of people or particularly old or young......