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Somerville is the new Charlestown

Call it Irish-gangster musical chairs. First some Irish-gangster movie is moved from Southie to Eastie because Southie is no longer gritty enough. Now Sam Baltrusis reports that another Irish-gangster movie is being moved from Charlestown to Somerville to avoid confusion with an Irish-gangster movie set in Charlestown and an Irish-gangster TV pilot set in Charlestown.

Meanwhile, West Roxbury has to content itself with Paul Blart, Mall Cop.

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Could Somerville lose its hospital?

The Boston Business Journal reports the Cambridge Health Alliance, which operates Somerville Hospital, is looking at shifting all of the hospital's departments - except the emergency room - to Cambridge City Hospital as it struggles to close anticipated budget gaps next year. A spokesman says no decision has been made yet, however.

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Somerville woman charged with stabbing boyfriend to death

Channel 4 reports on the arrest of Kimberly Carmella Savini, 30, for the 11 Greenville St. murder.

Innocent, etc.

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He needs a shovel that'll make people get out of the way of his fixie

Davis Square hipster seeks the most expensive, badass snow shovel made in New England:

If you look at it and think, "THIS IS NOT YOUR MAMA'S SNOW SHOVEL" then you're probably on the right track.

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Remember when Shelby Scott became a human measurement of snowfall?

Looks like there's finally a replacement for her, at least, in Somerville. But she doesn't look very happy about it.

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Adderall: Not just for dinner anymore

Rob Bellinger recounts an encounter last night with a hopped-up actress wandering the streets of Cambridge who said she was looking for a job as a bartender.

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Gunfire, chase, crash

A pair of Somerville 20somethings learned yesterday afternoon when you fight the law, the law usually wins.

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boston.com costs some Somerville residents $50

Seems boston.com has a service to remind you to move your car on street-sweeping days. And seems the service didn't notify people in Somerville last week and they didn't move their cars and they got $50 tickets, and boy are they pissed, Wicked Local Somerville reports. Seems boston.com didn't realize that Somerville keeps sweeping its streets through December.

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Pedestrian killed in Somerville

State Police are investigating how a woman died around 10:50 p.m. yesterday on McGrath/O'Brien Highway at the entrance to the Twin City Plaza. Simple answer: She got hit by a car.

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Man arrested for Somerville robberies

Channel 4 reports Somerville Police have arrested a man for a series of recent robberies on women, including one in which a woman was stabbed outside the Sullivan Square T stop.

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