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I have an old photo of men I've been told were some Red Sox baseball players who were dining at a restaurant back in the late 1960's. There are 3 of them in the picture. It was likely 1968 to maybe as late as 1970. It was probably during Spring training because it was taken in central Florida. Does anyone here know how I can track down living members of the team to see if any of them can identify them? I have been told they may be Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Lonborg, and Tony Conigliaro, but when I look at...

BOSTON — As Transportation Secretary Richard Davey sees it, commuters faced with sharp increases in the cost of rail, bus and subway rides, as well as the elimination of bus routes, ferry service, weekend commuter rail and weekend E Line subway access, have settled on a theme. “The chorus I’m hearing is, 'I would rather pay more but not cut the service,’” Davey said Thursday at the State House. That message was echoed by lawmakers who said their constituents and colleagues had largely indicated that riders would rather be slapped with the first fare hike in five years than with...

Former Boston Mayor Kevin White has died, associates and politicians told the Herald tonight. Mayor Thomas M. Menino released a statement upon hearing the news of White’s death: “My thoughts and prayers are with the White family tonight. Mayor Kevin White was a great friend and a great leader who left a lasting mark of hope and inspiration on the City of Boston. He will be sorely missed.” White, the mayor of Boston from 1967 to 1983, presided as mayor for 16 years that spanned the turbulence of busing as well as the rebirth of downtown and the waterfront.

More than a third of the students in Boston public high schools were chronically absent last year, even as the city undertook additional efforts to lure students to school, according to a Globe analysis. At East Boston High School, half of the students missed at least 19 days, more than 10 percent of the school year. The rates of chronic absenteeism were even higher at Brighton High, Charlestown High, and Dorchester Academy. Across the city, 7,400 high school students were chronically absent. The figures illustrate the enormous challenges most local high schools face in keeping students in class, and more...

. . . Among the candidates, only two stand out as truly presidential, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman. Both have track records of success, and both, through their policies and demeanors, have shown the breadth of spirit to lead the nation. But while Romney proceeds cautiously, strategically, trying to appease enough constituencies to get himself the nomination, Huntsman has been bold. Rather than merely sketch out policies, he articulates goals and ideals. The priorities he would set for the country, from leading the world in renewable energy to retooling education and immigration policies to help American high-tech industries, are far-sighted....

Travelers seemed to get a chuckle out of the holiday levity. But Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials weren't amused and initially said the dispatcher could be strongly disciplined.

Residents of the Occupy Boston encampment have dropped a lawsuit against the city of Boston, saying slow-moving litigation wasn't the best way to meet their goals. The residents of the tent city at Dewey Square lived in the public park for 10 weeks in a protest against what they said was the disproportionate political and economic power given to an elite few. Earlier this month, Occupy Boston sued the city to stop it from dismantling the camp. But a judge ruled Dec. 7 they didn't have a constitutional right to live there, and Mayor Thomas Menino removed them a few...

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U.S. Sen. Scott P. Brown has voted in favor of a proposal to amend the Constitution to compel Congress to come up with a balanced budget every year. Brown said 49 states, including Massachusetts, are required to balance their budgets and it’s time for the federal government to impose a similar condition on itself. The Massachusetts Republican said a balanced budget amendment would make the government live within its means without tricks or gimmicks. Democrats said the amendment would put the government in a fiscal straitjacket making it unable to respond to economic cycles, wars or natural disasters.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino hailed police for their "professionalism" in peacefully breaking up the Occupy Boston encampment in Dewey Square after 70 days, and also thanked protesters for showing "restraint."

Last week in Boston, a seven-year-old boy named Mark got into a fight with a bully. The bully put his hands around the boy's throat and began to squeeze. That's when Mark fought back; he kicked his aggressor right in the family jewels. In a normal society, we'd celebrate Mark. Throw him a ticker tape parade or something. Bullies need a sharp kick to the testicles. That's how you convince them that bullying is wrong. But in Boston, Mark was charged with sexual assault.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino today gave Occupy Boston protesters a midnight deadline to leave their Dewey Square encampment. “If not, we’ll take further action,” he said.

Ch 7 Boston just announced a judge has ruled against Occupy Boston. Nothing on their site yet. A tweet via Fox 25 Boston: >>BREAKING: Occupy Boston tweets a judge has lifted the temporary restraining order -- meaning they could be out very soon #fox25

Yesterday the Boston Public Health Commission voted to ban the use of electronic cigarettes in workplaces, including outdoor areas such as restaurant patios. It says it is simply "clos[ing] a loophole" by "treat[ing] e-cigarettes like tobacco products." In the absence of evidence that e-cigarettes are a hazard to other people, what possible justification is there for treating them the same as conventional cigarettes? I mean, they look like cigarettes, but surely that superficial resemblance is not enough for a scientifically grounded agency like the Boston Public Health Commission. Or maybe it is. Here is the best the commission can do...

BOSTON (CBS) – A 7-year-old boy accused of sexual harassment for kicking another student in the groin will be transferred to a new school in the city of Boston.

BOSTON -- With mounting problems and plummeting temperatures, many are not sure how much longer Occupy Boston will last. Police are beginning to crack down at the Occupy Boston tent city and that led to the arrests of two men over the weekend. Occupy protesters said they are determined to stay. “Like during the day you have 300 Occupiers to like 20 police. The ratio is outrageous. It’s a peaceful protest,” said John Murphy, an Occupy protester. “There were people pushed to the ground by the police and injured and other injuries from them and a large amount of show...

Liberalism Run AmuckA seven year old boy takes the John Wayne image of manhood seriously, and is now in big trouble. A 7-year-old boy is being investigated by his South Boston elementary school for possible sexual harassment after kicking another boy in the crotch. A seven year old boy was being choked and robbed of his gloves, when he kicked his attacker in the nuts. Thus he ended the assault and prevented the theft. The school system now claims that the response was an example of sexual assault and they are conducting an investigation. The mother of first grader,...

BOSTON -- Tensions were high at Dewey Square Thursday night when police took Occupy Boston protesters into custody. The confrontation started when a protester allegedly brought a sink into the Occupy Boston encampment. According to protesters at the scene, they demanded to know from police why they were blocking the sink from entering the site. 7News was told police took possession of the sink. People then formed a barricade around a police vehicle. A protester told 7News one person was injured, and police confirmed that three people were taken into custody for disorderly conduct. Earlier on Thursday, a judge upheld...

We now have a clearer picture of what the "occupy" movement has planned for their version of a new America... and it's a society that is riddled with drug crimes, sexual assaults, arguments, third world conditions and racism. Proudly solidified in the the ACLU's brief introduction, filed in the Suffolk Superior Court on behalf of the Occupy Boston movement, is a rather twisted vision of what the movement insists is "what Democracy should look like." Citizens walking by Dewey Square on Atlantic Avenue - or stopping in at Occupy Boston to satisfy their curiosity about what Occupy Boston is all...

City moves to evict Occupy Boston protestersNovember 30, 2011 BOSTON—The city of Boston is taking steps to evict Occupy Boston protesters living in an encampment in a city park. The city filed a 200-page document in court arguing that while the protesters have the right to free speech, they have no right to live on public property. Mayor Thomas Menino, who has previously expressed support for the Occupy movement, tells WCVB-TV that he wants to have the legal tools to have dozens of tents in Dewey Square Park removed.

(More Details) BOSTON -- Massachusetts State Police arrested an airline passenger at Boston Logan International Airport after officers said he watched child pornography while onboard a plane. Officials told NewsCenter 5's Cheryl Fiandaca the incident happened about 2:53 p.m. Saturday during a Delta Airlines flight from Utah to Boston. “That’s really creepy,” said one female passenger. “That’s disgusting.” Troopers said a passenger took a cellphone photo of 47-year-old Grant Smith, of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, watching the video. “The notion that someone would be so bold as to view it in public is extraordinary and I’m not sure what the explanation...

Investigators Say Incident Happened During Delta Flight BOSTON -- Massachusetts State Police arrested an airline passenger at Boston Logan International Airport after officers said he watched child pornography while onboard a plane. Officials said the incident happened about 2:53 p.m. Saturday during a Delta Airlines flight from Utah to Boston. Troopers said other passengers took a cellphone photo of 47-year-old Grant Smith, of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, watched the video. Investigators said Smith was seat in the first class section at the time and another passenger alerted the flight crew to the incident. Officials said Smith was interviewed by troopers when...

Vatican City, Nov 21, 2011 / 05:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict accepted the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, former Archbishop of Boston, and appointed Spanish Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló as the new archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major. Cardinal Law, who resigned in 2002 as Archbishop of Boston in the wake of the sex abuse scandal, turned 80 on Nov. 4.A Vatican official explained to CNA on Nov. 21 that although the official retirement age for a post such as archpriest is 80, it is customary for cardinals to hold their positions for a longer period of time....

A member of Occupy the Hood Boston, an activist group focused on social inequities in urban communities, said the group formally separated from Occupy Boston. Community activist Jamal Crawford said elements such as “racism and white privilege” have been “hindrances to forward progress,” in an e-mail he sent to occupiers, demanding certain things change. “I can’t say all of OB is racist or OB itself is racist [but] we witnessed and experienced white privilege and racism,” he said.

A Boston judge on Wednesday ordered the city not to remove Occupy Boston protesters or their tents from their encampment in the city’s financial district without court approval, except in an emergency. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Frances McIntyre granted the temporary restraining order sought by Occupy Boston after a lengthy court hearing. The protesters filed a lawsuit against the city Tuesday, saying they were concerned they could be forced out in the middle of the night as Occupy protesters in New York City were this week. McIntyre’s order is temporary. The judge said she will hear additional arguments on Dec....

Dozens of anti-Israel activists attempted to barge into the Israeli consulate in Boston over the weekend in protest over Israel's seizure of the Canadian-Irish flotilla ships that attempted to sail to Gaza. Bearing PA flags, the activists attempted to storm the building but were turned back. They swore to return, shouting slogans about how the “apartheid regime in Israel must fall.” The activists were “spillovers” from the Occupy Boston protests, one of many being held in the U.S. demanding social justice. At least three people have been arrested on drug charges in the protests over the past several days, and...

City officials are vowing to keep the heat on derelict protest-crashers at Occupy Boston, while some demonstrators are calling for drug dealers and lawbreakers to hit the road. “We are looking to get our act together,” said Mike Ippolito, an Occupier who has lived in the makeshift camp since its first day. “Actions are being taken to tighten up. ... I believe weapons, drugs and alcohol have no place here.”

Boston cops are probing alleged threats by cyber goons tied to Occupy Boston, including online messages urging violence and harassment, officials said. “The Boston Police Department is investigating harassment attempts and threats directed at department personnel. These threats appear to be generated by those either involved or sympathetic with the Occupy Boston movement,” Boston police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said in a statement last night. “The department will not disclose the specific nature of the intelligence gathered relative to this matter. We are taking the appropriate steps to address any potential concerns.” Sources said the threats included publicizing the phone...

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Occupy Boston takes a page from the radical undergroundThe Anarchist's Playbook By LIZ PELLY | October 12, 2011 Just hours after his men finished wiping the Greenway's manicured gardens with the bellies, knees, and faces of Occupy Boston last Tuesday, the BPD top cop attempted to create dissent by blaming a familiar bogeyman: the "anarchists." BPD Commissioner Ed Davis told the BostonHerald on Tuesday that he had no problem with the real protesters. "The [Occupation] group that was here for the first 10 days was working very closely with us," he said, "but they warned us yesterday morning that a...

BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon by Occupy Boston protesters. The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice, called her foul names and even threw a water bottle at her. Now, the Coast Guard is warning all staff working on Atlantic Avenue to avoid those protesters while in uniform.

NEWTON (CBS) – A worker fell 1,000 feet to his death from a tower in Newton on Wednesday. A veteran crew of three men, working for Ultimate Tower Service, was doing routine maintenance work on the tower when one of the men fell. “The wind, you know, can be a factor, but today’s a pretty calm day, so the whole thing seems very bizarre and tragic,” said Brenda Loew, a neighbor. Sources told WBZ-TV that the surviving workers were almost too upset to talk to investigators. WBZ-TV’s Christina Hager reports. Workers routinely wear safety harnesses to attach themselves to the...

Boston police arrested 141 people during Occupy Boston demonstrations on Tuesday. The early morning arrests (1:30 am) were for trespassing and unlawful assembly. After almost 15 hours in custody, all of the peaceful demonstrators detained by the Boston Police Department had finally been released as of 6 pm on October 11. Occupy Boston has many eye-witness accounts and videos of police misconduct during the arrests (see above). Perhaps the most disturbing, and characteristic, clip is of a member of Veterans for Peace being thrown to the ground multiple times without provocation. Street medics and clearly marked legal observers who were...

Defiant Occupy Boston protesters were arrested and charged with unlawful assembly and being in a public park after hours in a massive, early morning crackdown at the protest group’s second tent city on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. “It’s important that we gain control and make sure the rules are followed, “ said Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, who was on site during the police action.

Live Video: Police Move In On Occupy Boston Protesters

30-liter Ace of Spades "Midas" champagne Seems the Boston Bruins had some steam to blow-off following their conquest of the Stanley Cup earlier this year... reportedly the main rave at the Bay-area Shrine nightclub went on for days.  Fill a bar with fired-up Czechs, Russians, and Canadians and what else to expect, these people can drink lol. But just to put a number to the intensity of that festiveness, see the Bruins'  bar bill attached below: keep in mind this was merely the first four hours after the team's victorious return to Beantown, looks like they cleaned-off the whole top...

Maybe you, too, have wondered why our middle-aged, right-wing pundits have worked themselves into a hysterical snit over Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Boston protesters — the ones they call dirty, smelly, hippies, just like gramps did back in ’71. Here’s your answer: because the second wave of hipster protests has finally arrived, and these guys have missed the boat. Again.

New York (CNN) -- As the Occupy Wall Street protesters rally for a third week, social media sites such as Twitter seem to be spurring similar protests in other cities. A Twitter account called Occupy Boston mentions a citywide college walkout there Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Nurses Association says hundreds of the city's nurses will rally with the Occupy Boston protesters on Wednesday. The association says the protest will be part of the opening day activities for a national nursing convention in Boston.

As I’ve watched the video footage of protesters attempting to “Occupy Wall Street� and, now, “Occupy Boston,� I’ve been struck again and again by this realization: They’re my age. Maybe not all of them — but many of them. So excuse me if I find it hard not to dismiss the movement as born of inexperience and misguided idealism. The romantic impulse to be an outcast, an individual facing outstanding and institutionalized obstacles is one I have to tamp down in myself sometimes; I think it comes with the territory of being in your 20s. Most of the protesters seem...

The Trust Fund Kids of Boston, in imitation of the Trust Fund Kids of New York, are rising up against the system. What are their grievances about a capitalist system that allows them to remain the idle rich? They will give you a lot of BS answers but the REAL answer is that deep down they know they are the useless offspring of the wealthy who are secretly jealous of self-made people. The strange thing is that these protests are coming in the middle of a DEMOCRAT administration. Gee. What about all that Hope and Change that they were...

Angry anti-corporate protesters could descend on Boston’s financial district today as part of a rolling national protest over bank bailouts, joblessness and what they see as the heavy hand of corporations in American politics. “A Boston occupation is imminent,” wrote Occupy_Boston on Twitter. “Things gonna happen,” responded Occupy_Beantown. “Woot woot.” It is unclear how many people might be involved. Facebook and Twitter chatter yesterday showed several people debating whether to act today or Nov. 5 — those who want to stage protests today citing momentum from the weekend’s similar protests on Wall Street in New York City. “Our intelligence group...

Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley expressed opposition to a ballot petition that would make physician-assisted suicide legal, yesterday at the annual Red Mass for Massachusetts lawyers and jurists. About 175 judges, lawyers, and other legal professionals attended the Mass, held at Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End. Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley urged the Catholic legal community yesterday to oppose a ballot petition that would make physician-assisted suicide legal in Massachusetts, reaffirming the church’s stance on end of life care. “We are called upon to defend the gospel of life with courage and resolve,’’ O’Malley said, delivering the homily...

Until the last days of his life, half of which he spent behind bars for killing a police officer, William “Lefty’’ Gilday insisted he never pulled the trigger. Among the state’s most notorious criminals, Gilday led hundreds of police officers on a bullet-filled chase over a week in 1970, the largest manhunt in New England history. He remained unapologetic until an interview in June, his last before he died last Saturday in a Boston hospital. At 82 and suffering from an advancing case of Parkinson’s disease, Gilday finally acknowledged responsibility for the slaying four decades ago of Boston Patrolman Walter...

Opponents staged a last-minute protest against expanded gambling on Tuesday, saying casinos would damage the state's economy and create enormous social and political problems. The protest came as members of the state House of Representatives plan to vote on Wednesday on a bill to permit three casinos in three regions around the state including one for anywhere in the four counties of Western Massachusetts. The bill would also create a single slot house with up to 1,250 slot machines. "In the long term, the bill will only create more economic turbulence, more problems for families, and more new addiction than...

Gilbert, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- On Thursday, September 8, 2011, the Public Safety Committee of the Boston City Council held a public hearing concerning the potential licensing of businesses that sell knives. According to the supporters of the proposed license, the action is needed as a means to address the “ever increasing knife violence in Boston.” Knife Rights was represented by Jim Wallace, Executive Director of Gun Owners’ Action League, who was also representing his own organization. The politicians attending were clearly firm in their conviction that action must be taken, some scapegoat must be found. There were grieving parents and their...

Entercom responds to the pressure from CBS Radio's "Sports Hub" WBZ-FM (98.5), and will announce Thursday morning that it will simulcast its longtime sports station WEEI (850) on 93.7, starting Monday. That displaces variety hits "Mike FM" WMKK, which has moved [ratings] 2.8 to 2.9 to 3.2 with age 6+ Average Quarter Hour shares in the last three Personal People Meter monthly books. WEEI, carrying the baseball Red Sox, has moved 3.9-3.5-4.3. "Sports Hub" WBZ-FM has moved up and down (5.2-2.6-3.4), but has been making particular inroads with WEEI's younger male listeners. “Mike” replaced the previous “Star” AC format on...

Matthew F. Stuart, the lone survivor of one of the most infamous domestic murder mysteries in the city’s history, is dead at age 45, authorities confirmed this morning. Stuart’s body was discovered at 2 a.m. yesterday at Heading Home, a sober emergency shelter in Cambridge. It was unclear how long he had been staying there. The cause of his death was pending an autopsy. Stuart was a key player in covering up the Oct. 23, 1989, slayings of his pregnant sister-in-law attorney Carol DiMaiti Stuart and her unborn son Christopher at the hands of his big brother Charles “Chuck” Stuart,...

The Red Sox by now certainly understand why people are upset about their public support for the vulgar, homosexual website "It Gets Better". Over the last three weeks the organization has been flooded with complaints -- many of them quite descriptive -- via phone, email, and US mail. We have personally talked to their representatives and explained in detail what that site entails. We also mailed a fairly descriptive letter to the Red Sox vice president of public relations. But instead of doing the right thing, the reaction by the Red Sox has been to dig in their heels. The...

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the acquittal of a Libyan man and two associates who were accused of conspiring to dupe the U.S. government into granting tax-exempt status to a defunct Muslim charity by hiding its pro-jihad activities. The appeals court reinstated the jury’s guilty verdict against Libya’s Emadeddin Muntasser together with Samir Al-Monla and Muhammed Mubayyid. The three founded and led the defunct Boston-based Care International Inc. The organization described its mission as helping war orphans, widows and refugees in Muslim nations. But prosecutors argued that it was a successor to a U.S. branch of a group...

The Justice Department has agreed to end its investigation into an international financial network with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and a Saudi prince in a settlement in excess of $30 million, sources tell the Investigative Project on Terrorism. But DOJ officials refuse to release a copy of the settlement or make any comment on it. "Unfortunately, we're unable to provide anything in connection with this matter," DOJ spokesman Charles Miller wrote in response to a query Aug. 16. He did not contest the existence of the settlement with the Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf (IICG). Repeated attempts to...