ER doctor killed in motor scooter crash – Award-winning mentor taught at Harvard
By Sean Teehan – Globe Correspondent / August 28, 2010

A doctor from Brigham and Women’s Hospital was killed yesterday when the motor scooter he was driving collided with a truck in Brighton, hospital officials said.

Police responded to a call for an accident involving a scooter and another motor vehicle on Beacon Street in Brighton at about 10 a.m., Boston police said.

The accident occurred when Dr. Andrew T. McAfee, an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, collided with a truck, according to Ron M. Walls, chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s.

Senator candidates make their case
by Sean Teehan/MySouthEnd.com Contributor – Aug 25, 2010

Three days before Sunday services, about 100 people descended upon an un-airconditioned church on a hot, muggy Thursday evening. Those in attendance, however, came for civic rather than religious reasons.

The Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury hosted the first debate between sitting 2nd Suffolk State Senator Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz and her democratic opponent, Hassan Williams last Thursday, August 19. The debate was sponsored by the Ward 5 Democratic Committee.

Politicians and constituents listened as the two made their cases for why they deserved the community’s support for the Tuesday, September 14 Democratic Primary vote.

The debate format, which the two candidates previously agreed, consisted of three segments. First, the two answered questions from community groups; next, they fielded inquiries from the audience; finally, they asked and answered questions from each other.

Boston enters UFC ring – Fight is test of new rules
By Dave Wedge/Boston Herald – August 27, 2010

The Hub has done an about-face on cage fighting and is ready to rumble, welcoming the wildly popular UFC that was once banned in Boston in what will be the state’s first major test of its new mixed martial arts rules.

“I’m definitely in favor of this,” City Council President Michael Ross said of tomorrow’s UFC 118 pay-per-view blowout at the TD Garden. “I think we tend to be a little more conservative than we need to be. I definitely welcome the change.”

It was just five years ago that city officials banned cage fighting, dismissing it as human cockfighting and a “no holds barred” bloodsport that attracted punch-drunk thugs. But UFC has since exploded into one of the most successful pro sports leagues on the planet and all but eight states now have MMA regulations in place.

1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.  More anniversaries.