Secretary of State William Galvin announced today he'll be appointing somebody to oversee Boston elections this year and next to ensure precincts don't run out of ballots like they did last November - forcing long delays and in some cases preventing people from actually cast votes. Read more.

Cambridge Police report somebody decided to fire a gun in the area of Bishop Allen Drive and School Street around 2:15 p.m. Read more.

A former Boston cop who is suing over his firing for refusing both Covid-19 shots and tests last week demanded that the judge in the case recuse herself because her husband is the CEO of a company that made devices used in early Covid-19 testing and so she has an undeniable bias. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting a man they say used a screwdriver to force another man to hand over a bottle of pills and money on Camden Street in the South End Saturday morning.

The Huntington News introduces us to Dylan Mitchell, who endlessly bikes around Northeastern's Centennial Common, next to the Ruggles T stop, doing stunts to the sounds of disco and funk blaring out from his bike-mounted speaker.

Although he suspects passersby assume his hobby is performative and that people view him as “that crazy guy with the bike,” he said he has no intention of being seen. 

We suppose, somehow, the Nooyawka son of the Nooyawk police commissioner, who became a Nooyawk police detective, could suddenly find himself in Boston as  detective. Maybe police departments have some sort of detective-exchange program? Read more.

Let's see if this holds up. Apologies for all the site slowness and other issues over the past couple weeks.

Boston Police report officers who initially stopped a driver they watched speed through two red lights in a car with excessive tint early Friday arrested him for the the two bags of crack and roughly $24,000 in stolen checks they say he had in the car. Read more.

New England Folklore recounts the tale of an 18th-century Harvard student who supposedly went into convulsions and died when a classmate played a prank on him and came into his room one night covered in a sheet - after the student had earlier decried the existence of ghosts during a late-night ghost-story session. Read more.