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(Boston) Mayor Martin Walsh has placed new Police Commissioner Dennis White on leave after “disturbing” decades-old allegations of domestic violence surfaced less than three full days after he was sworn in. Walsh, in a statement Wednesday night after The Boston Globe unearthed allegations against White, first noted the abrupt departure of now-former Commissioner William Gross, saying the mayor made the decision “quickly” to pick Gross’s chief of staff White to step into the role. “In an attempt to create a smooth transition and honor former Commissioner Gross’s desire to spend time with his family, Dennis White was asked to quickly...

It certainly seems as though the right wing of the blogosphere will be kept quite busy over the next three-and-a-half weeks -- so little time, and so many Obama scandals to investigate!Over at National Review Online's blog, The Corner, Mark Hemmingway suspects -- based on, um, nothing -- that Tony Rezko may be telling the feds about nefarious dealings with a bank where Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias once worked. And we care because? Because Giannoulias has connections to Barack Obama! Hemmingway concludes: "Maybe there's nothing there, but it's worth looking into right?" Um, right. At American Thinker, Jack Cashill has another bombshell: he...

BOSTON Boston Mayor Tom Menino pledges to combat global warming by committing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city 80 percent by the year 2050. Menino's short-term goal is to reduce Boston's emissions by seven percent over the next five years. The mayor hopes to meet those goals by installing energy efficient heating systems in buildings throughout the city and by encouraging increased use of wind power as well as other measures. Menino says Boston already is the region's largest municipal purchaser of renewable energy and biodiesel fuel made from vegetable material.

Okay, Democrats, here's how you win back the presidency in '08 ... Between now and the 2008 primaries, you promote the candidacy of one Hillary Rodham Clinton. You remember Hillary. She's the wife of William Jefferson Clinton, the pot-smoking, skirt-chasing, two-timer 42nd president of all the United States of America, including Ohio and Florida. Mrs. Clinton, the temp senator from New York, drives the conservatives nuts. She is, as her name implies, a female, and thus, in their eyes, uppity ... if she has the audacity to run for public office, which she does. Conservative men and women alike think...

BOSTON -- A philanthropist is demanding that Boston University return his $3 million donation to renovate a library. Grocery entrepreneur David Mugar said he had been told the money was "lost" through poor accounting and could not be identified among university funds. He is considering a lawsuit. The 2-year-old dispute reached a crucial juncture Tuesday when the university's board of trustees debated Mugar's demand that the money be returned and asked a lawyer to recommend options. Mugar made his gift in 1993 to expand and renovate the school's Mugar Library, named after his grandparents and funded by his family.