--Police at Dorchester District Court released the wrong man, according to the Dorchester Reporter. The Reporter is very kind to the officers involved: "In a rare but potentially embarrassing gaffe, officers at Dorchester District Court this week appeared to release the wrong man, allowing him to waltz out of the courthouse and bolt down Washington Street, as confusion reigned inside." The reporter, Gintautas Dumcius, later notes that "The court officers glumly walked back to the......

--Adam Rich, the man who was killed in the now-infamous 6 House bar brawl, was allegedly involved in a hate-crime beating before he was killed. Rich was one of the suspects in a crime in which four white men beat up a white woman – the sister of one of the men - and her black boyfriend. Laurel Sweet at the Herald writes, “You (expletive) (expletive), what you doing in Southie?” are among the epithets......

After a few weeks of uncertainty, the legal battle between the two men involved in the Brawl at the Hall last month took about as much time to resolve in the courtroom as it took for the pair to be escorted out of the Boston Pops' opening night festivities - about ten minutes. Michael Hallam, 44, and Matthew Ellinger, 27, agreed in a closed-door hearing to not press charges against each other in connection to......

Poor Michael Robert Soutar, 46, of New Mexico. He was just having a nice, relaxing afternoon with his girlfriend on the yacht Aquna-Matada, which was docked in the North End marina, when the Massachusetts State Police arrested him. It turns out that Souter is wanted for tax evasion, racketeering, embezzlement, and lots of other bad business stuff; he had started a business to help artists sell their work in New Mexico but ended up selling......