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'Hypnotist Thieves' Stir Fear in Boston's Chinatown

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:17:28 CDT

A woman in Boston's Chinatown claims that a trio of thieves hypnotized her into handing over $160,000—and the police are taking this seriously, the Boston Herald reports. The 57-year-old Cantonese speaker says three women stopped her on the street, did a little hocus pocus, and sent her home...

Bo Xilai Son Racked Up Porsche Tickets at Harvard

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:54:00 CDT

It turns out Bo Xilai's "Harvard princeling" son is a bit of a playboy after all. While Bo Guagua has indignantly shot down media reports that he drives a Ferrari, he has racked up three traffic tickets zipping around Boston in what appears to be a pricey black Porsche. The...

Fenway Park Is a Century Old

Matt Cantor — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:18:05 CDT

Baseball's "Sistine Chapel" turns 100 today, a century to the day after its first regular-season game. As the oldest major-league stadium, Fenway Park has seen the Boston Red Sox through a turbulent century, hosting heroes from Babe Ruth to Ted Williams to Hank Aaron, the Boston Globe notes. Today, you...

Boston Marathon Kicks Off Amid 'Dangerous' Heat

Kevin Spak — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:26:19 CDT

The Boston Marathon kicked off this morning, despite heat forecasts so high that organizers urged runners to consider sitting the race out. Temperatures are expected to hit 88 degrees by 2pm, which would be a record and drastically higher than normal, according to the Boston Herald . "We had to consider...

TSA Agents Hospitalized by Noxious Bag

Kevin Spak — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:54:05 CDT

Fifteen Transportation Safety Administration workers were sickened and four sent to the hospital today, after coming into contact with a noxious odor wafting out of an open bag in a bag room. The workers complained of headaches and eye and throat irritation, the Boston Globe reports. No passengers were exposed...

Barred in Boston: Mosh Pits

Matt Cantor — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:13:36 CDT

Boston cops have had it with mosh pits. Slam dancing at a Flogging Molly concert last month, which featured fans "colliding into each other" with some "knocked to the ground," earned the House of Blues a police citation, the Herald reports. "Dancing is a First Amendment right, but the behavior...

Ex-Student Sues College Over Roomie's Sex Life

Matt Cantor — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:42:00 CST

A former student is suing a Boston-area college for $150,000 because, she says, it was inflexible about her housing situation—which involved a roommate who was too sexual. Lindsay Blankmeyer's senior-year roommate had sex with her boyfriend just feet from Blankmeyer as she tried to sleep, Blankmeyer says. In...

Ben & Jerry's Removes Fortune Cookies From Lin Flavor

Tim Karan — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:36:14 CST

Ben & Jerry's might have been, um, Linsane, to think nobody would be offended. The ice cream company recently released a limited-edition flavor in honor of New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin, but promptly removed the bits of fortune cookies mixed in, reports Boston.com. Pints of "Taste the Lin-Sanity,...

Police Dismantle Occupy Boston

John Johnson — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:40:05 CST

Occupy Boston is no more after 10 weeks. Police moved in early this morning and made quick work of dismantling what the Boston Globe called the longest continual Occupy protest in the nation. It took only about 30 minutes for police to tear down about 50 tents and begin loading...