A federal appeals court yesterday took several whacks - possibly as many as 41 - at the company that runs a B&B in Lizzie Borden's old home in Fall River, denying its request for a temporary restraining order to get the upstart Miss Lizzie's Coffee next door from glomming onto the gruesome story as its trademark case against the coffee place continues to percolate through the courts. Read more.
St. Pierre egging on fellow y'all quedaists at the Capitol and in simpler times.
A federal judge in Washington, DC this week convicted the owner of a Fall River market on four counts - one a felony - for throwing a flagpole topper at police and using a bullhorn to encourage other insurrectionists inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, after first videoing himself exclaiming that he'd like to "grab Nancy Pelosi by the hair and fucking twirl her around." Read more.
From the complaint: The less bloody of the two Miss Lizzie's Coffee signs.
The operator of the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River has an axe to grind with the way the owner of a new coffeehouse next door named the place Miss Lizzie's Coffee and put up signs with blood-drenched hatchets. Read more.
Video showing a four-car MBTA commuter-rail train being put through its paces in the Fall River area, using one T locomotive and two engines leased from Larry's Truck and Electric, a McDonald, OH company that specializes in used rail engines and equipment. Read more.
This week's Big Dig accident is not the first time the roof of a highway tunnel has collapsed in Massachusetts. The same thing happened in Fall River seven years ago. Read more here:
Lawsuits filed in Fall River tunnel accident
Mr. Cunha said Joao Medeiros was in his car with his wife, Beatrice, and their two children, Sarah and Amanda, when the concrete slabs fell from the roof.
With the T now at Orange Alert, Sco says we need to remember all the other vulnerable targets in New England, both present and planned - such as the proposed LNG terminal in Fall River:
... While the Fall River facility might be moved or stopped, according to a Report Commissioned by Congressman Ed Markey, there are as many as 27 other chemical facilities where a worst-case incident would effect more than 10,000 people. ...
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