Judge rules there's nothing anti-Christian about books that show boys wearing pink smocks and girls playing football
An odd duck
February 11
Alice Murphy spotted this duck waddling down Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay today, but did not attempt to quack any jokes or ask if he were taking a break from Mrs. Mallard, because she didn't want to ruffle his feathers since he wasn't a sitting duck.
Mattapan man gets 16-20 years for shooting another Mattapan man to death in 2022
February 11
A man was sentenced to 16 to 20 years in state prison today after admitting to fatally shooting Xavier Barkon, 19, as Barkon sat in a car on Oak Hill Avenue off West Selden Street in Mattapan around 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 11, 2022, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
A new reason for frowns: Track woes at Suffolk Downs
February 11
The day after a burning cable at Suffolk Downs halted the Blue Line, a new problem at the station is jamming up the works: An unspecified track issue so bad the MBTA is now bustituting between Orient Heights and Wonderland.
Carvell Curry shouldn't have frozen to death outside South Station, councilors say, demanding MBTA keep it open during winter emergencies
February 11
The Boston City Council voted unanimously today to urge the MBTA to keep South Station and other transit facilities open during declared winter emergencies so no more homeless people suffer the fate of Carvell Curry, 62, who died of exposure just outside the station on the night of Dec. 5.
Judge rules there's nothing anti-Christian about books that show boys wearing pink smocks and girls playing football
February 11
A federal judge who had earlier ordered Lexington schools to shield a self-professed Christian's young son from books that might be pro-LGBTQ said the father went too far in a request to keep his son away from two specific books that posit that boys can have tea parties and can put on pink smocks when baking and that girls can wear blue, play football and pretend to be pirates.
