Grim Reaper comes back to haunt Harvard Medical School

Grim Reaper comes back to haunt Harvard Medical School
Former HMS morgue manager and his license plate.

Over the moon

October 6

Adam Balsam watched the dual sunset/moonrise over Logan Airport this evening, specifically, at 6:07 p.m. "about 5 minutes before sunset and 12 minutes after the moon rose."

Love that dirty water? Health officials advise against fishing or swimming in the Charles River Basin

October 6

OK, you probably shouldn't be eating fish out of the Charles River Basin anyway, but even doubly so now: The Cambridge Public Health Department alerts us to a cyanobacteria bloom in the river downstream from the River Street/Cambridge Street Bridge....

Man sues downtown restaurant over the way he says he was shot by guy who smuggled gun in under his hat

October 6

A man who says he was shot in the leg and buttocks by a man inside Fete, 25 Kingston St. downtown early on March 8 today sued the bar, its security guards and the two guys charged with opening fire with a gun the bar failed to catch when they let them in....

Private equity firm that owns shuttered Carney Hospital hires developer behind Government Center Garage and Suffolk Downs re-dos to do something with its nearly 13-acre site

October 6

The Dorchester Reporter reports that the New York private-equity firm that controlled and shut Carney Hospital has hired Tom O'Brien of the HYM Investment Group to figure out what to do with its 12.7-acre site along Dorchester Avenue. O'Brien...

Six-story apartment building could replace repair garage in Mattapan Square

October 6

Developer Solmon Chowdhury today filed plans for a six-story, 58-unit apartment building at 1576 Blue Hill Ave. at Babson Street in Mattapan Square.

Man sought for early morning stabbing in Downtown Crossing

October 6

Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say stabbed somebody at School and Province streets downtown around 6 a.m. on Sept. 16.

Grim Reaper comes back to haunt Harvard Medical School as court reinstates suits over the way its morgue manager sliced off and sold body parts

October 6

The Supreme Judicial Court today reinstated lawsuits by family members of people who donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School - where, for years, the morgue manager carved up bodies to re-sell parts on the body-part black market....

One woman dead, another critical after hit-and-run driver slams into them on South Huntington Avenue

October 6

WFXT reports on the crash on South Huntington Avenue near the Back of the Hill trolley stop around 9:35 p.m. on Sunday. One of the victims, 77, died; her walker remained at...

Dynamic sunrise over Boston

October 6

Handmaid was up before the crack of dawn to watch the sun come up over the Back Bay and Downtown from the top of Peters Hill in the Arnold Arboretum.

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