Charlestown

Protesting Dick Cheney

Looks like some folks did show up to protest Cheney's visit, some in holiday-appropriate garb.

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At least there's something good about all this rain

Rainbow

Saul Blumenthal took this Zakim rainbow photo yesterday.

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Orange Line shut as train runs over woman

At Sullivan Square around 9 a.m.. Service has since been restored, according to mbta.com.

That makes three people hit by T trains in three days.

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Orange Line train kills woman Sullivan Sq.

Orange Line train kills woman in Sullivan Sq.
June 26, 2008 09:50 AM
By John Ellement, Globe Staff

A woman was killed this morning in the Sullivan Square Orange Line station, a Boston Fire Department Spokesman said.

Steve MacDonald said firefighters were called to the Charlestown station at 9:07 a.m. to investigate a report of a person underneath the northbound Orange Line train.

MacDonald said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene and that she was found underneath a six car train inside the station.

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Beat LA

Green bridge

Greg MacKay notices the Zakim Bridge is now decked out in Celtics green.

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A long way to fall

The Globe reports authorities think a body discovered at Boston Sand and Gravel is that of a man who abandoned his car on the ramp connecting the Tobin with the Zakim last night.

A spokesman for the Suffolk County DA's office says state police are looking at how the 44-year-old Chelsea resident wound up there, but that foul play is not suspected.

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The supermarket employees couldn't help but notice the bulge in his shorts

Boston Police report a Worcester man ordered some scallops and a chicken lobster at the deli department at the Hyde Park Avenue Shaw's yesterday, then put them in his shorts. Unfortunately for him, police say, store employees noticed his newly enlarged package as he tried to walk out of the store without paying and detained him until police arrived to put the pinch on him.

No word if the store put the seafood back or if police held it for evidence.

Boston Police also report on some trashy neighbors at 84 Bunker Hill St., Charlestown:

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Man in wheelchair hit, dragged by dump truck

Outside the Sullivan Square T stop this morning; expected to survive.

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