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Radioactive Scare Shuts Down Boston Subway Station

A radiation scare shut down Haymarket MBTA station to passengers Tuesday morning.

Thermal Cameras On Boston Streets Can Show Activity Inside Homes

A thermal imaging project in the city of Boston has been put on hold because of privacy concerns. Lisa van der Pool of the Boston Business Journal reports. Boston officials had hoped to have aerial and street-level photos taken across about four square miles of the city this winter using infrared cameras that would show heat loss in the city homes.

Boston modifies ambulance for obese patients up to 850 lbs

Stephen Smith The Boston Globe 01/11/2011

Boston Real Estate and Tax Saving Tips

The Quincy Cove 02/08/2010
Boston modifies ambulance for obese patients up to 850 lbs

In a super-sized world, it was perhaps inevitable: Boston’s Emergency Medical Services this month will begin deploying an ambulance equipped with a hydraulic lift to ease transport of the heaviest patients.

Boston Real Estate and Tax Saving Tips

If you haven’t filed your taxes yet don’t worry you still have until April to get everything together. The folks over at Mortgage Fit have given us some great tax tips. One thing is for sure whether your buying a home in Boston or Quincy you may want to get things wrapped up quickly for your stimulus tax credit.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino sworn in to historic fifth term

Standing on a stage in Faneuil Hall before hundreds of supporters, Mayor Thomas M. Menino was sworn in for a historic fifth four-year term this morning. He promised to transform city schools, build a vibrant waterfront “innovation district,” improve city services and unite a diverse citizenry.

Boston mom calls 911 over son's video game habit

BOSTON – Police say a frustrated Boston woman called 911 to say she couldn't get her 14-year-old son to stop playing video games and go to sleep. Police spokesman Officer Joe Zanoli said Monday the mother called for help around 2:30 a.m. Saturday to say that the teenager also walked around the house and turned on all the lights.

Boston subway almost hits stumbling woman on the tracks

The driver of a Boston subway train made an emergency stop only inches short of a woman who had fallen onto the tracks and was stumbling and flailing around, the Associated Press reports.

Boston cops: Psychiatric patient stabs doctor, is shot dead

BOSTON — A man stabbed a doctor while being treated at a psychiatric office at a Boston medical building Tuesday and was fatally shot by an off-duty security guard who saw the attack, police said.

Poisoning at Harvard: 6 lab workers sickened by coffee

Adam Smith and O’Ryan Johnson Boston Herald 10/26/2009
Fed gloomy on R.I. office-leasing outlook

BOSTON – The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has offered a gloomy short-term outlook for the commercial real estate market in Providence in its periodic survey of economic conditions in New England.

Poisoning at Harvard: 6 lab workers sickened by coffee

Harvard University Medical School is locking down its New Research Building, installing new surveillance cameras and imposing tighter security after researchers in the pathology department of the Boston building drank poisoned coffee and were hospitalized.


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