Judge restores pre-brainworm vaccine recommendations
Judge orders Bobby Brainworm to quit fucking around with vaccines
March 16
A federal judge in Boston today ordered the increasingly misnamed Department of Health and Human Services to quit screwing around with vaccine schedules and do what Congress requires and let a body of actual experts have a say in recommending life-saving vaccinations, at least as long as he presides over a lawsuit brought last year by public-health and medical groups aghast at vaccine denialism promoted as official government policy.
Fire hits house off Green and Lamartine in Jamaica Plain
March 16
Boston firefighters responded to 6 Marlou Terr., off Green and Lamartine streets in Jamaica Plain for a fire that started on the first floor around 9:55 p.m.
Judge orders immediate release of immigrant because regime can't figure out where to deport him to and you can't just hold somebody like him indefinitely
March 16
For a change, ICE actually grabbed an immigrant who might have deserved grabbing: A Rhode Island man who served 14 years in federal prison for organizing a plot to rob cocaine dealers at gunpoint, after serving six years in state prison for an armed home invasion. ...
Firefighters douse fiery generator exhaust pipe at Wood Island T stop
March 16
Boston firefighters responded to the Wood Island Blue Line stop around 11:25 a.m. to deal with a fire in the exhaust pipe from the room housing an emergency generator.
New MIT tech is something to sniff at
March 16
MIT News reports researchers are working on a new way to diagnose pneumonia and other lung diseases: Patients would inhale certain tiny "biomarkers" that would react to enzymes related to specific diseases that could then be detected by a sensor.
If attorneys who agree to take on indigent criminal clients want to get paid more, they're going to have to convince the state legislature, court rules
March 16
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a shortage of lawyers willing to take on indigent clients has yet to reach a crisis severe enough that it needs to step in and order an increase in how much the lawyers are paid.
Knife-swinging shoplifter in boots sought for rampage at Grove Hall CVS
March 16
Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say went into a knife-swinging frenzy at the CVS at 468 Blue Hill Ave. in Dorchester around 8:25 p.m. on March 4.
Keller returns to the air on WBZ
March 16
Massterlist reports Jon Keller, laid off in October after CBS got subsumed into the Trump media empire, returns to WBZ tonight and will resume his Keller at Large interview show on Sunday morning. It's been done before, so he probably won't say it, but it would be cool if the first thing out of his mouth were "As I was saying before I was interrupted."
A Red Line quagmire due to a track fire
March 16
A track fire outbound just past Quincy Center brought the Braintree branch of the Red Line to a halt shortly after 8 a.m.
The T rolled out bustitution between Braintree and North Quincy; told riders they could also get on commuter rail.
