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2 more Rox. shootings bring the total to 28 since the Marathon

A broad daylight shooting in the parking lot of Walgreen’s at the busy intersection of Warren St. & Quincy St. left one man dead and another wounded. The shooting took place at this busy intersection which is directly diagonal from Boston Latin and across from the recently shuttered Roxbury Comprehensive Health Center.

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MA & Saggy Pants: This Takes ‘Fashion Police’ to a Whole New Level

A little-known law in Massachusetts involving openly “lewd and lascivious behavior” is the lynchpin of a new war on saggy pants from the Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts (BMHAM). BMHAM is trying to use this law—which says we can arrest, fine and even imprison someone for “gross” public exposure—to crack down on people who wear their pants too low.

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