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Two potential disasters involving airplanes were averted in Massachusetts in the last couple of days. An American Airlines Flight 1937 left Boston for San Juan, Puerto Rico and returned an hour after smoke was smelled in plane’s rear bathroom. The plane left Logan Airport around 8:35 a.m. and made an emergency landing at 9:45 a.m. All 185 people on board were not injured and all passengers were placed on other flights. Also, a military C-5 transport plane landed safely at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee on Thursday despite losing two wheels. The crew didn't know the wheels were missing until an air traffic controller told them.

--The victim of the hatchet attack on Marion Street in East Boston has died. The Herald notes that his death brings this year's murder count to 19. --The BPD caught three perps - one from Puerto Rico - and nine kilos of cocaine. That must have been some party! --More information is emerging about why Cape Cod doctor Ann Gryboski shot and killed her husband, Patrick Lancaster. Lancaster was apparently, allegedly an asshole of a...

The 32nd Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival will run at the Somerville Theatre from Sunday, February 18, to Monday, February 19 - President's Day, so it won't piss off your boss. The festival starts at noon and ends at noon. Tickets are $51, but, hey, it happens only once a year. You can find more information at the festival's website.

Bostonist loves us some ice cream. We're too lazy (and full of ice cream) to find the statistic that says New Englanders eat more ice cream than anyone else in the nation. We're pretty sure that our winter intake of creamy deliciousness tops the summer consumption of other parts of the country. Are we proud? Yes. We've got our share of local chains and independent parlors to find our tasty treats – and Jamaica Plain-based J.P. Licks has come out with some internationally inspired new flavors to treat us before summer officially ends.

This past weekend Franklin Park again played host to the annual Puerto Rican Festival. Boston seems to have lost interest in the festival overall. The only imagery, besides our own, found in local media came in the form of a single picture run in black and white in the Boston Globe and in color in the Metro. The Boston Herald used some imagery from the parade to discuss the recent filing in U.S. District Court that Boston failed to fulfill it's obligation to furnish election related materials in Spanish as well as English. The festival spanned three days in Franklin Park filled with food (some really good food), music, carnival rides, and anything you could ever want with the flag of Puerto Rico on it. Anything you could want, and more, that is, from hats and shirts, to Sponge Bob, to items heavily lacquered which, as best as Bostonist could tell, were meant for mantle decoration all carried the flag.