Fortunately, Revere officials said they’ve already secured $100,000 in donations from other sources, so it’s not as though the relief campaign has been a total bust. But given the chance to donate online, choosy shoppers continued to support Market Basket. Click here if you’d like to donate to the Revere Tornado Fund. Click here to see the Market Basket customer GoFundMe, which funded a Lowell Sun ad that ran in Saturday’s paper. Check out more Boston.com coverage of the Market Basket saga here. Scalese can be reached at roberto.scalese@globe.com or via Twitter @BertoScalese. Continue reading >>>

When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10-year-old, with a machete scar and memories of a murdered uncle as reminders of why he’d embarked on a long, perilous journey from Honduras. He feared staying in his homeland and desperately wanted to join his mother in the U.S. In July 2002, he and two cousins — 6 and 14 — ended up near Brownsville after traveling by train, bus and foot. He remembers his grandmother, who lived in Arimis, Honduras, preparing to send him away, handing him a bag of food, some water Continue reading >>>

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When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10-year-old, with a machete scar and memories of a murdered uncle as reminders of why he'd embarked on a long, perilous journey from Honduras. He feared staying in his homeland and desperately wanted to join his mother in the U.S. In July 2002, he and two cousins, 6 and 14, ended up near Brownsville after traveling by train, bus and foot. He remembers his grandmother, who lived in Arimis, Honduras, preparing to send him away, handing him a bag of food, some water and telling him: "'Get on the bus. Don't look back. ... Don't Continue reading >>>

STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When a Big Dig ceiling panel collapsed, killing a Boston woman in 2006, Attorney General Martha Coakley vowed to press lawmakers to update the state's 2-century-old corporate manslaughter law — a promise she repeated in 2012 after a deadly meningitis outbreak was linked to a local compounding pharmacy. While lawmakers failed to take final action on Coakley's proposal to increase the penalty from $1,000 to $250,000, she was able to claim other successes as the Legislature ended its formal session Friday. Those include measures tightening flood Continue reading >>>

When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10-year-old, with a machete scar and memories of a murdered uncle as reminders of why he'd embarked on a long, perilous journey from Honduras. He feared staying in his homeland and desperately wanted to join his mother in the U.S. In July 2002, he and two cousins -- 6 and 14 -- ended up near Brownsville after traveling by train, bus and foot. He remembers his grandmother, who lived in Arimis, Honduras, preparing to send him away, handing him a bag of food, some water and telling him: "'Get on the bus. Continue reading >>>

He feared staying in his homeland and desperately wanted to join his mother in the U.S. In July 2002, he and two cousins — 6 and 14 — ended up near Brownsville after traveling by train, bus and foot. He remembers his grandmother, who lived in Arimis, Honduras, preparing to send him away, handing him a bag of food, some water and telling him: "'Get on the bus. Don't look back. ... Don't come and hug me. Don't say goodbye.'""That," he now says, "made me cry.'"Twelve years later, Mejla Romero is still fighting to stay in America. His tenacious — and unusually long — bid for asylum Continue reading >>>

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Saturdays Sundays10:30 and 11am Connect More From Phantom Gourmet Boston's Best: Food Boston's Best: Nightlife BOSTON (CBS) – From pastrami on rye to a great Italian sub, these are some of the tastiest sandwich shops in greater Boston. Moody’s in Waltham Moody’s in Waltham puts an artisan twist on the traditional deli featuring house-cured meats like its mouth-watering pastrami. “It’s a pastrami on rye, with melted Swiss and mustard, but we use a mustard pickle relish with Abbruzian style goat horn peppers in the relish,” said owner Joshua Smith. “Everything’s Continue reading >>>

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Posted Aug. 1, 2014 @ 6:43 pm
Updated Aug 1, 2014 at 7:38 PM