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Photo by Jim McDevitt. Edith Petrillo and Robert Fisher got married on Feb. 8, 1959, but were unable to spend the first night of their new life together because he was locked up at the District 7 police station in East Boston after their reception at…

Early Swan Boat. As they've done since the 1870s, the Paget family today launched the Swan Boats in the Public Garden Lagoon. Boston College's Burns Library posted this photo of a Swan Boat from sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s.…

Michael Marano previews the entries in the Independent Film Festival, which starts tomorrow. Topics: Entertainment Neighborhoods: Boston Somerville email print

Striking grad students this morning on Divinity Avenue. Photo by a roving UHub photographer. Harvard University graduate students, members of a UAW local, walked picket lines this morning after 14 months of fruitless contract talks with the school.…

Hahd-chahgin' Globe reporter Emily Sweeney recounts how her grandfather made newspapers across the country the time he fell on the tracks at Park Street and his leg came into contact with the third rail, but he lived because his leg was wooden.…

A disgruntled Red Line commuter in Dorchester filed a 311 complaint about the early morning reverie on the way to Shawmut being crudely interrupted: As I walk to the train in the morning I hear a rooster yelling at like 5 in the morning.…

Outfield dogs: From a 311 complaint filed yesterday about Rogers Park in Brighton. City Councilors Erin Murphy (at large) and Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Downtown, Chinatown) want city animal-control and parks officials to explain how they plan to…

A worker at one of the now closed Pure Oasis dispensaries yesterday sued over the wages and vacation pay she says she was owed when the downtown and Grove Hall shops closed last week.…

The Cambridge/Somerville Independent reports and adds that, given what's going on in western Mass., are now seeking contract clauses ensuring they're let down easy should the school shut.…

ICE is blaming "an administrative oversight" for the way it failed to comply with a judge's April 14 deadline to either release an immigrant it had thrown in a cell or to get him before an immigration judge for a bond hearing.…

Boston University is out with some pre-Marathon advice for impressionable young Terriers, and much of it is common sense (in fact, the subject line is "Sense and the City" - will the young'uns get that?): Don't overdrink, have a plan on how to get home in…

A motorist with no signal files a 311 complaint about the dead zone on Commonwealth Avenue in the area of BU's Agganis Arena: There's a signal jammer or high powered communications interference from equipment on Commonwealth Ave.…

City Councilor Brian Worrell (Dorchester) thinks it's time people who live on private ways in Boston get the same level of pothole filling as residents who live along roads that are owned by the city.…