US – Saturday, March 20
My Voice
The Senate’s Weak Health Care Bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “got to 60” at 1:08 yesterday morning, clearing a key Republican hurdle and keeping the Senate’s version of a health care reform bill on track for passage before Christmas.
 
Boston
Alumni look for like-minded fans
When last month’s apocalyptic snowstorm never hit, despite empty streets outside, 50 Syracuse basketball fans still attended a local alumni association basketball watch party at the Pour House.
 
Boston
MBTA steps up for Riverside riders
Riverside Line commuters only have to endure two more days of bus service as Secretary of Transportation Jeffery Mullen estimated yesterday that the D line will be open for the Monday morning commute.  
 
Boston
Twenty years without a clue
For the past twenty years officials at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum have been working with FBI agents the U.S. Attorney’s office to bring back 13 stolen artifacts that were infamously stolen on March 18th, 1990.  
 
Boston Arts
Two tickets to ‘Paradise Lost’
“Paradise Lost” is a Depression-era drama rife with parallels to the current economic and political climate. In the wrong hands, a predictable production of Clifford Odets’ period piece could bore an entire audience into a coma.
 
Arts
‘I’ll be your mama’
Sandra Shipley says she wants a lot of people to come see her in “Entertaining Mr. Sloane,” but there’s one person she’s a little nervous about.
 
Boston Sports
Buchholz: Season in majors the goal
For three years, the Red Sox have implored Clay Buchholz to slow down. Still, who could blame the right-hander for wishing April 9 was here already?
 
Boston Sports
Cooke-ing up a B’s grudge match
When the Bruins and Penguins face off tonight at the Garden, it will be more than a chance for the Bruins to hang on to the final playoff spot in the East.
 
Listings
T Time: Week of February 26, 2010
Where to go and what to see
 
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News in brief

 Cops cleared in Tierney slaying
BOSTON. The Bristol County District Attorney’s office has declared that two police offers who shot and killed 45-year old Gerard Tierney in May were acting out of necessity. Gerard allegedly refused to drop two kitchen knives as he approached the officers, at which point he was shot and killed — a circumstance that has been deemed a justifiable homicide after a thorough investigation by the district attorney’s office. METRO/CB

Pot trafficking bust
BOSTON. Jeremy Barnes of Providence, R.I., plead not guilty to federal charges of drug trafficking at his arraignment Monday in Boston. The man allegedly brought amounts of marijuana totaling millions of dollars and 4.5 tons into New England from violent Mexican drug cartels. METRO/CB

House chair calls for ban on trans-fats
BOSTON. The Department of Public Health is exploring whether it has the legal authority to ban trans-fats in Massachusetts restaurants.

DPH Commissioner Jon Auerbach told the News Service yesterday he has asked agency lawyers to pursue the request of House Public Health Committee Chairman Peter Koutoujian that DPH issue regulations prohibiting trans-fats.

In a letter to DPH, Koutoujian said he hopes the agency will do what the Legislature wouldn’t.

“Enacting a statewide ban would not only save lives, it would save resources,” he wrote, citing a Harvard study that found that as many as one in four heart attacks would be prevented and 1,400 lives in Massachusetts saved with the abolishment of trans-fats. Opponents have argued that the legislation would be too burdensome to restaurants already eliminating trans-fats.           SHNS

Time capsule found in Quincy
BOSTON. A masonry reconstruction team discovered a time capsule on Tuesday while doing routine work on the Abigail Adams Cairn, a Revolutionary War monument in Quincy. The metal box, thought to be over 100 years old, was buried alongside an 1889 U.S. penny and a commemorative medal, and has been given to the members of the historical society at the Adams Academy to determine proper ways for opening the box.
METRO/CB

N.H. man denies killing wife’s lover
BOSTON. A New Hampshire man has told a Middlesex Superior Court jury that he did not take part in the slaying of his ex-lover’s husband and another man at a Wakefield concrete plant in March of 2006. Sean Fitzpatrick, who admitted to having an affair with Michelle Zammitti, said he was at home asleep the night of her husband’s murder.
METRO/CB

 
 
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MMMpod
The March MMMpod features conversation and music from Surfer Blood and The Allman Brothers Band (There's a double-bill you're not too likely to see. However, Gregg Allman does mention Hannah Montana!). We also speak with Vampire Weekend and the Dropkick Murphys.