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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Pol ramps up Southie war on drugs

?THE MORE THE
MERRIER: U.S. Rep.
Stephen Lynch, above, is bringing
in the feds to help
fight the drug war in South Boston in the wake of the slaying of a 67-year-old
grandmother, allegedly at the hands of Timothy Kostka.

By Dave Wedge

U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch is ramping up the drug war in South Boston, bringing in...

Greenway open to forgoing public money

By Erin Smith

Officials at the embattled Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy — under political...

‘Surreal’ tragedy rocks Saugus, Lynn

CRIME SCENE: State Police investigate the grounds at the Lynnhurst Elementary School after two bodies were discovered behind the building yesterday.

By John Zaremba and Matt Stout

A janitor’s grisly early-morning discovery of two dead women in a Saugus...

Man busted having a cow over hungry hawk

FEATHERS FLY: George McKenzie, 64, above, was arrested after Springfield police detectives say they saw him attack a red tail hawk while it was eating a pigeon.

By Renee Nadeau Algarin

Two Springfield detectives who had taken time to photograph a red tail hawk devouring...

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Victim on road to changing his future

The scene of a fatal shooting at 132 Hyde Park Ave.

By Richard Weir

A 25-year-old man gunned down in his Jamaica Plain apartment Friday had just begun...

T chief demands to know why Amtrak sent train down wrong tracks

By Richard Weir

The MBTA chief wants Amtrak to explain why one of its dispatchers sent an Attleboro-bound commuter train down the wrong tracks,...

Murder suspect who threatened Cumberland Farms execs captured

By Arelis R. Hernández / The Orlando Sentinel

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- The man accused of killing his wife, his daughter’s boyfriend and wounding his pregnant daughter...

Commish to address cops after month delay

By O’Ryan Johnson

Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis is finally set to make his state of the...

Police: Child locked inside Westport preschool

By Associated Press

WESTPORT -- Police and state child welfare officials are investigating after a 3-year-old girl was locked inside a Westport day care center after staff left...

Father, son, plead guilty to killing bear

By Associated Press

GARDNER — A father and son have lost the right to hunt in Massachusetts for five years after pleading guilty to illegally...

Harvard, MIT to announce online learning project

By Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE — Harvard and MIT are announcing a new partnership in online education. Harvard President Drew Faust and MIT President Susan Hockfield are...

Salem boy who had throat slashed ‘doing well’

By Associated Press

SALEM -- An 8-year-old boy who was left in a burning Salem apartment after his own mother allegedly slashed his throat is out of the hospital and on the mend. A...

Tuesday, May 1, 2012