| The boors next door
Groggy but curious, he lifted the bedroom blinds only to spy his new neighbors out back, playing what he described as a noisy game of pick-up basketball - at midnight. Once he got up, the 50-something homeowner couldn't get back to sleep, and he had to get up early for work the next morning.
Neighborhood etiquette, a subjective term that covers a broad spectrum of community conduct, has stirred renewed attention of late, locally and nationwide. From a new neighborhood nuisance law in Baltimore City, to a popular new Web site about "rotten" neighbors that's getting millions of hits, people are talking about their neighbors.
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Lohan's boyfriend slams mum's TV show
Lindsay Lohan's boyfriend has criticised her mother Dina for filming a reality TV show.Snowboarder Riley Giles said publicity surrounding the series could set back Lindsay's recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.The pair have been dating since they met at the Cirque Lodge rehab centre in Utah, where Lohan spent two months in a treatment programme. Giles also revealed that he and Lindsay were asked to appear on the show, writing on his MySpace page: "Advice of the week - if you're a mother with four kids the best thing you can do for them right now is have a reality show We Do Not Want. She had the nerve to ask us to be on it. No thanks!"The series, which began filming last month, will follow the Lohan family's life in New York, focusing on Dina's new career as a talent manager.Lindsay reportedly sacked her mother as her manager last month, accusing her of courting media attention.
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Following those bombshell revelations last Friday, Marshall promptly stepped down as the Wampanoag’s leader. "No one likes to be blindsided by events and have things happen when you’re on the press," Boston magazine editor James Burnett said Wednesday. "Like every other reporter in Boston, like every other media outlet in Boston, sure, we would have loved to have those details on his background"... Herald. _______________________ Liar's poker: You can smell the moneyShould state encourage its citizens to gamble? How much is enough?The day that the Mashpee Wampanoag's grand billion-dollar-plus casino opens in Middleborough, no one will be able to take more credit than Glenn Marshall, convicted rapist and admitted serial liar. It seems only appropriate. You can smell the money as the frenzy over casino gambling builds in anticipation of Governor Deval Patrick's pivotal and likely endorsement shortly after Labor Day.
Emilio Martinez Gets Prison Time, Says He's "Scared to Death" To Go ...
A local judge administered justice to the third man involved in a plot to kidnap a man and beat him up. 24-year-old Emilio Martinez was sentenced for second degree kidnapping and destruction of evidence. Deputy Prosecutor Bruce Pickett argued Martinez was involved in the plan to beat up Jason Atwood last September over a drug dispute. Martinez admitted that he did the job to get more drugs. His attorney said Martinez doesn't need prison, he needs help for his drug addiction. Martinez told Judge Gregory Anderson that he is scared to death to go back to prison because he isn't the same person he was when he was in there before, as a hard-core gang member. Emilio Martinez: "I can't stand to even think of myself like that.
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