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B2 Metro The Boston Globe TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 New England in brief BILL GREENEGLOBE STAFF TIME FOR A COOLING ELEMENT Olga Gregg, 8, of Maine, beat the heat by jumping from a dock at Hadley's Harbor on Naushon Island, off Martha's Vineyard, yesterday. She was on the island visiting family. US releases photos of Bulger, Greig SPRINGFIELD Gasoline-death conviction overturned The state's highest court yesterday overturned the first-degree felony murder conviction of a man who was found guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend's mother by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire. Lastarandre Bell of Springfield was convicted in 2008 in the death of Julie Ann Nieves. Bell was convicted of arson as well as felony murder in the first-degree.

Yesterday, the Supreme Judicial Court reversed Bell's first-degree felony murder conviction, finding that the judge should have given the jury instructions on second-degree felony murder, based on the arson charge. The court said prosecutors may agree to the lesser conviction or retry Bell. (AP) BOSTON State considers 7 new charier schools The state's Education Department is considering applications for seven new charter schools The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education says it is considering proposals for five fully independent charter schools and two charter schools that would work cooperatively with the local school district. The independent schools are proposed for Somerville, Lowell, the Holyoke area, and two in Springfield. The other proposed schools would be in Boston.

The new charters would be awarded in February. (AP) WOBURN Cinelli brother faces robbery charge A man accused of a role in a botched robbery that led to the death of a Woburn police officer has pleaded not guilty to charges in a separate robbery. Arthur Cinelli of Newburyport was ordered held without bail yesterday in Middlesex Superior Court after his arraignment on charges including armed robbery in connection with the robbery of a Stoneham supermarket in November. He has also pleaded not guilty to charges he sent his brother, Domenic Cinelli, text messages with advice on how to rob the Kohl's department store in Woburn on Dec. 26, 2010.

Authorities say Domenic Cinelli fatally shot Woburn police Officer John "Jack" Maguire during the robbery and was killed by return fire. (AP) OLD ORCHARD BEACH, MAINE Fire destroys Galaxy bar near pier An Old Orchard Beach bar and nightclub was destroyed yesterday by a large fire, the smoke from which could be seen more than a mile away. Firefighters from several towns were called before 9 a.m. to the Galaxy, a two-story building on East Grand Avenue not far from the Old Orchard Beach pier. There were no reported injuries, and no immediate word on the cause.

(AP) PORTLAND, MAINE Noxious monster plant is spreading Maine officials say they have documented four new sightings of giant hogweed, a monster plant that can cause severe blistering and skin and eye irritation. The giant hogweed can grow up to 14 feet high and its flowers may measure more than a foot across. Sap from the plant can cause irritation, scarring, and, in rare cases, blindness. The Portland Press Herald reported there are now 21 spots around Maine where hogweed has been documented. (AP) PORTSMOUTH, N.H.

Fisherman rescued after fall from cliff A New Hampshire fisherman is safe after falling off a cliff and being pulled from the water by two passing fishermen. Andy Barrett of Portsmouth told WM UR-TV he was fishing from a cliff when he slipped and fell into the Piscataquag River Sunday morning. Two men heading out to fish spotted Barrett waving to them from the choppy water and pulled him aboard their boat. (AP) WOONSOCKET, R.I. Sewage spill taints Blackstone River A sewage spill into the Blackstone River in Rhode Island is much larger than state officials first believed.

State environmental officials said yesterday that 920,000 gallons of sewage leaked into the river after a construction crew hit a sewage line in Woonsocket on Friday; earlier estimates put the amount at 100,000 gallons. (AP) on the run for 16 years, is being held at the Plymouth County House of Correction on murder charges in 19 slayings. Greig, 60, is being held at a jail in Rhode Island on charges of harboring a fugitive. Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler granted a routine request yesterday by federal prosecutors to give them more time to provide Bulger's defense attorney with discovery in the case, a request supported by Bulger attorney J.

W. Carney Jr. By Shelley Murphy GLOBE STAFF Nearly six weeks after fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger and his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, were arrested in Santa Monica, the US Marshals Service released their booking photos yesterday. It was the first official release of the photos, though some copies had been released unofficially earlier. Recent photos of the couple are rare because cameras are not allowed in federal court.

The 81-year-old Bulger, who had been Shelley Murphy can be reached at shmurphyglobe. com. The photos had already been out unofficially. Green Line extension put off until 2018 By Matt Byrne GLOBE CORRESPONDENT The long-anticipated extension of the Green line has been delayed an additional three years, state planners said yesterday, with service to riders in Somerville and Medford slated to begin in fall 2018 at the earliest. The reason for the delay is a decision by transportation planners to wait to obtain all or most of the parcels of land and environmental permits the billion-dollar project requires before the state puts major design and construction out to bid, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation said in a statement.

While fall 2018 is the earliest projection, station service extending to College Avenue in Medford could be as late as 2020, the statement said. "Let me be clear: We are behind the Green Line extension," said Richard Da-vey, general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, in a phone interview. "It will get built." The agency said it is taking a lesson from the reopening of the Greenbush Commuter Rail line, which was fraught with delay when planners failed to buy all the land required to complete the project before it was put out to bid. "The Green Line project team aims to prevent the issues that cost the MBTA both time and money," the Department of Transportation said in the statement. In support of that commitment, Davey pointed to a deal to buy a parcel of land owned by Pan Am Railways required for the project, that was closed late last year, he said, and his agency's continued efforts to buy two dozen Green Line cars for the extension.

Still uncertain is the fate of a 24-hour, 11-acre maintenance facility in the Inner Belt section of Somerville, which planners have yet to acquire. Nineteen properties in Somerville and Medford must be acquired before federal environmental regulators will sign off, Joseph Pesaturo, an MBTA spokesman, said in an e-mail. The announcement of the delay, made in an annual report to the Department of Environmental Protection, came after the agency announced last July that it would push completion back a year, to 2015. "Obviously it's disappointing," said Marc Draisen, executive director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, which in the last year has undertaken a myriad of public meetings to hash out a second phase of the extension to Route 16 in Medford. While acknowledging the need to buy land and acquire permits, Draisen said he suspected underlying financial instability.

"We want good roads, we want fast trains, and complete streets," he said. "People want these things, but if you want them, you have to pay for them." The state is legally bound to finish the Green Line project by the end of 2014 because of a lawsuit that requires the state to build non-automobile transportation projects to ameliorate the environmental impacts of the Big Dig. Davey said he and Transportation Secretary Jeffrey B. Mullan will work to "turn back the dial" from the 2018 projection. Mayor Joseph A.

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-7 p.m. Sat-Sun 1-7 p.m. Told police he'd feared for others By Brian R. Ballou GLOBE STAFF Marco Tulio Flores told authorities that after enduring years of sexual assaults at the hands of a family friend, he hit a tipping point after finding photographs in the man's apartment that suggested he would victimize others, prosecutors said in court yesterday. Flores, a clean-cut and slender 17-year-old who wears thick-rimmed glasses, then began plotting how he would kill the man, Jamie Galdamez, a 27-year-old native of El Salvador who lived nearby in East Boston and who had known the family for a decade, prosecutors said.

In the process, Flores turned a video recorder on himself, recording his deadly intentions, they said, and he even told Galdamez he was planning to kill him. Flores allegedly followed through on his plan on the night of May 22, walking into Galda-mez's basement apartment on Saratoga Street, confronting him about the sexual assaults, and then strangling Galdamez with a dog chain. He then stood next to the body, looked into the video recorder again, and said it felt good to accomplish his goal, according to prosecutors. "He told him he was going to die and told him to get ready," said Ina Polumbaum, a Suffolk County assistant district attorney, speaking yesterday during Flores's arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court on first-degree murder and arson charges. Flores, wearing a light-blue dress shirt, softly declared "not guilty" twice as he stood next to his attorney, James Budreau.

Flores's mother and brother attended the arraignment but declined to comment afterward. Prosecutors say Flores doused the body with charcoal lighter fluid, took a large-screen television and other valuable items from the apartment, and left. After daybreak, they say, he returned to the apartment and set the body on fire. The three-decker, within view of the Flores residence, was also home to two families with six children, all of whom were inside when the fire started. Those families managed to get out safely as Boston firefighters doused the flames.

Minutes after putting the fire out, firefighters found the body, with duct tape on the face. The discovery shocked the mostly immigrant community near Logan Airport. Another shock came 18 hours later, when Flores walked into the East Boston police station and told a detective at the front desk that he "did it," Polumbaum said. Flores allegedly gave details and talked of years of sexual MASS CASH Aug. 1 2 4 10 28 30 Jackpot: no winner.

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