Kevin Kangethe, 42, who allegedly stabbed girlfriend Margaret Mbitu to death, left her jacket-covered body in the front seat of his Toyota Venza at Logan Central Parking, then fled to Kenya in November, was flown back to Boston today to face arraignment on a murder charge in Suffolk Superior Court tomorrow, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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FedEx worker ordered held without bail on charges he flew ten pounds of meth from Las Vegas to Logan
A federal magistrate judge last week ordered a former Quincy man facing drug-distribution charges ordered held without bail pending his trial, ruling his pending charges and his past criminal record show he would prove a risk to society were he allowed to remain free. Read more.
CommonWealth Beacon considers a proposal by Atlantic writer - and Boston Phoenix alum - .Mark Leibovich to rename our airport after the Celtics great and civil-rights activist.
Ari Ofsevit reports that "that rumble over downtown you may have heard" was United Flight 688 coming in not much higher than the tops of some downtown buildings for a 4:39 p.m. landing at Logan at the end of a flight from Newark.
What a kidder! Massport announced today it's hired Davey, formerly of the MBTA, MassDOT and, shh, Boston 2024, but more recently of the New York City subway and bus system, to oversee its airports and port operations. Massport will pay Davey $420,000 a year, and he's supposed to start Sept. 9. The announcement comes two weeks after Davey declined interest in becoming a Bostonian again.
A Dorchester couple who showed up at Logan Airport last month with $589,041 in cash stuffed inside pants in two carry-on suitcases and two duffel bags could be about to lose the money, under a forfeiture motion filed yesterday by the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Read more.
A London resident was sent to the Suffolk County jail yesterday after she couldn't make the $1,500 bail set at her arraignment for trafficking between 50 and 100 pounds of marijuana, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Nairobi News reports Kenyan police have re-arrested Kevin Kangethe, wanted for murdering Margaret Mbitu, driving her body to Logan and then leaving it in the car there as he flew to Nairobi last November. Read more.
A man trying to bring in some desiccated dead monkeys via Logan Airport proved no match for Buddey, the Customs and Border Protection sniffer dog, who led agents doing routine post-flight checks right to a suitcase containing them yesterday. Read more.
A man who was being held by Kenyan police pending his return here for trial in the death of a nurse whose body was found in a car at Logan Airport managed to run out of a police station when his lawyer arrived for a visit, then fled on a Nairobi mini-bus to parts unknown, the Nairobi News reports. Read more.
Nairobi News reports police there have arrested Kevin Kangethe, formerly of Lowell, to face charges here that he murdered his girlfriend, Margaret Mbitu, drove her body to Logan Airport and then got on a plane to Kenya last November 1. Read more.
The FBI today arrested an American Airlines flight attendant it says videoed several girls - the youngest just 7 - in lavatories on flights across the country and used an artificial-intelligence program to generate more graphic child-porn images. Read more.
WCVB reports JetBlue Flight 170 from Ft. Lauderdale to Logan last night had to land in Orlando after a passenger began telling people he was the devil and then punched a woman he was traveling with.
At Logan, Ben Walsh reports:
Last time I’ll be up early enough for the sunrise until daylight savings starts again.
Not all that far away, Chelsea Scanner took in the sunrise over the water at Winthrop: Read more.
State Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office say they are working with Kenyan authorities to find and arrest a man who is now charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found last night in Logan Airport's Central Parking. Read more.
WFXT reports the FAA is looking into reports of two JetBlue airliners getting tagged by green lasers early Thursday morning.
Associated Press reports on American Airlines Flight 1441 from Charlotte to Logan, in which the girl was directed by a crew member to use a first-class lavatory - in which "a largely obscured iPhone had been affixed to the back of the toilet seat."
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office today dropped criminal charges against Jack Jones, who was arrested with two guns in his luggage at Logan Airport in June, in part because Massachusetts law gives people bringing lawfully obtained guns into the state up to 60 days to obtain a license and Jones was within that period. Read more.
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