SouthBoston TODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door JULY 25, 2013; Vol.1 Issue 39 SERVING SOUTH BOSTONIANS AROUND THE GLOBE In a fast moving investigation, law enforcement authorities now are saying that they believe that Last Week’s there is a link between the murder of Amy E. Lord, 24, whose body was found Tuesday afternoon in Hyde Poll Results Park’s Stony Brook Reservation and two other attacks on women in Page 2 South Boston. Amy E. Lord, 24, of South Boston was kidnapped by two men in her neighborhood, early Tuesday morning on her way to the gym, and forced to withdraw money from ATMs before she was repeatedly South Boston Today stabbed and her body dumped in the Suspect in Murder of SB wooded parkland, according to two law enforcement officials familiar Resident Positively Identified with the investigation. According Other Suspect At Large. Community On Alert! to the officials, Lord’s car was later recovered in South Boston, where @SBostonToday SOUTH BOSTON TODAY it had been set on fire. Boston staff report firefighters responded to Logan Way Go to our South Boston Today s South Boston Today was information on the South Boston Tuesday around 8:30 a.m. where page to vote on our weekly poll. going to print, Boston resident, Amy Lord, murder they doused a burning black Jeep, Make sure you like & share Police have sent out new investigation. A CONTINUED ON page 7 Caught at Barlow’s... Girls’ Night Out For... Heather, Maryann, Michele & Helena Where... Barlow’s... of Course! How... the Southie Shuttle... of Course! Become a Member, You Can Ride FREE Too! Catch Southie Shuttle at SouthieShuttle.com or 617-268-4110 SouthieShuttle @SouthieShuttle 2 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com July 25, 2013 official you were on the street. “Enough” They got little, if any, sleep. The EDITORIAL memories and pain and anger of flyers and air dropped all over the EMS, a Combat Zone is anyplace those days will stay with them Middle Eastern world with the and anytime for their entire career. always. Is Sergeant Murphy words “Win a trip to paradise”. In service, counseling is the only any different? The rage he had Sergeant Murphy, while help available and it has to be fit in to suppress when he snapped a technically in violation of policy, between duty hours in this “Urban picture instead of the shot the punk did the right thing by countering Combat Zone”. Not a real effective deserved can only be imagined by the pin-up glamour boy magazine recovery system for those in need. anyone not in that position. cover, with a shot of reality. How worn and wrung out were A day’s suspension is more than Perhaps the magazine could show you following the story from the enough punishment, when balanced nough with the outrage the photo of the punk placing the first moment of the blast? Did you against the cathartic effect his over the decision, by bomb next to 8 year old Martin go to bed late and rise early every actions bestowed on the citizenry. E Massachusetts State Police Richards. morning ending and beginning Let’s not allow this punk’s Sergeant Sean Murphy, to release Combat veterans finally are each day and night living and actions to be rewarded by having the photo of the punk terrorist. acknowledged as suffering post breathing the developments? more bad things happen to good The laser beam on his forehead traumatic stress. Unlike those Many, if not most of us did. 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Most in the group were Security head Janet Napolitano, to enforce the law when it came to columns filled with ‘short young girls holding signs demanding another saying that fits here is “don’t the flood of illegals coming over that Ttakes’. This happens when the release of the ‘alleged’ Marathon let the door hit you on the back on your border made her no friends outside of there are a lot of topics to touch on but Bomber? Some classified it as a freak way out” (I used the word back but her bosses in the Obama Regime. So none of them really need a lot of words show. The terrorist has his own fan you know what I was thinking). Her now she will become a department for the points to be made. Let’s start club. Is this more progressive thinking constant insistence that our country’s head at a college in California. Good with a comparison of Boston versus in our fair city? Not to be outdone southern border is more secure now place for her. She tends to have success Detroit. No, not the Patriots v Lions. by the little groupies with the signs, than ever before was believed by only when dealing with people that will fall I’m talking about the announcement Rolling Stone Magazine glamorized the most gullible. Her unwillingness CONTINUED ON page 6 this week that Detroit is now so broke the guy with a rock star type picture and it will file for bankruptcy. For on its front page. There are some who decades now, Detroit has been run classify people who think like this as by big government liberals. They’ve being ‘hip’, while folks who live in the dominated everything in that city, real world call them idiots. jacked up taxes constantly, spent all the Have you checked the price at the Limit one coupon per customer per visit. Coupon must money on useless unworkable social gas pumps lately? Of course you have. be presented at time of purchase. Shop must retain coupon. No substitutions allowed. No cash refunds. programs and now all the cash is gone. If you drive you can’t help but notice Void if copied or transferred and where prohibited or restricted by law. Consumer must pay applicable tax. That saying comes to mind “If you put the price of fuel is going through the May not be combined with any other coupon, discount, promotion combo or value meal. Coupon may not be reproduced, copied, purchased, traded or sold. liberals in charge of the Mojave Desert, roof. But some at the Massachusetts Internet distribution strictly prohibited. Cash redemption value: 1/20 of 1 cent. © 2013 DD IP Holder the desert would run out of sand in five State House aren’t fazed. They voted to LLC. All rights reserved. Expires: 8/01/2013 PLU # 2746 years.” Well Boston needs to watch add on a gas tax increase to the already GOOD AT 482 West Broadway itself or it could be going the way of burdensome cost. This naturally hurts South Boston, Ma 02127 Detroit in the future. working families who least can afford it. Liberal, or ‘progressive’, politicians Governor Patrick is upset. Not because want to endlessly raise taxes here and of the gas tax increase but because the a recent story in a Boston daily paper tax increase is not high enough! The says there is no shortage of progressive state north of the Massachusetts border candidates running for mayor. They considered raising their gasoline tax; are just trying to figure out how to but the Conservative elected officials appeal to the progressive voters. Well, in New Hampshire said no way and if history teaches us anything it is that voted it down. The Granite state as good resume’ enhancers that appeal usual has learned to spend tax payer’s Get Your to that voting bloc are economic and money responsibly. Maybe that’s why SUMMER social plans that never work anywhere so many families and businesses are and some good juicy scandals; the moving there. If they can learn how Running @ more, the better. That often drives their to eliminate waste and fraud and be approval numbers among those of that conscientious and careful with the 482 West Broadway political persuasion way up.