Harvard's Grim Reaper gets eight years for carving, selling off parts from bodies in the medical-school morgue
Owners of two small Mattapan Square markets charged with more than $6 million in SNAP fraud and selling rice stolen from programs feeding starving children
December 17
Two men who run neighboring micro-markets on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square - one just 150 square feet - were arrested today on federal charges they paid cash for SNAP benefits and sold rice diverted from programs trying to feed starving children in other countries....
DA: Spitting man provided the DNA evidence investigators needed to tie him to a 1997 murder in Codman Square
December 17
Brian Keazer, 50, of Jamaica Plain, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment today on charges he stabbed Ruth Foster 37 times in her Codman Square apartment in 1997, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports....
Harvard's Grim Reaper gets eight years for carving, selling off parts from bodies in the medical-school morgue
December 17
A federal judge yesterday sentenced now former Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge to eight years in federal prison for the way he ran the morgue as a supermarket for the sort of people who like collecting body parts.
Conversion of Berkeley Street office building into apartments approved
December 17
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a New York developer's plans to convert most of the six-story office building at 95 Berkeley St., at Chandler Street in the South End, into apartments.
Hey, deer
December 17
Mary Ellen spotted this pair o' deer up the hill at Millennium Park yesterday, didn't spot what might have driven them to scamper up there (probably not a bobcat, but maybe a coyote).
Dana-Farber to pay $15 million for manipulated photos in scientific papers
December 17
Retraction Watch reports on the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's settlement of a federal lawsuit over manipulated or duplicated photos that led to the retraction or editing of dozens of articles in scientific journals.
On the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, protesters dumped ice into the harbor
December 17
Ron Newman took part in last night's Boston Ice Tea Party, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. It started at Old South Church downtown.
