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When police park at HQ, regular rules do not apply (Boston.com) Illegal parking in a handicapped spot is no trifling matter. Boston issues 11,000 tickets a year, each of which carries a $120 fine and often a $93 towing charge. And it is not uncommon for passersby to loudly rebuke able-bodied drivers who use parking spots reserved for the disabled. But violators who use the 11 handicapped-designated spaces in front of Boston Police headquarters are immune from any sanction at all - or even a sidelong glance from the scores of police officers who enter and leave the building every day, according to Globe observations over the past two months. One repeat scofflaw: the driver of a Toyota Corolla registered to Irene Landry, the city's supervisor of Parking Enforcement, who oversees the 194 parking enforcement officers who write 1.3 million tickets a year. When a Globe reporter called Landry's office on Feb. 10 to ask about the Toyota, Landry was stunned. "I will investigate,&q

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Thomas Brent Mowrey and his service dog, Lady, were denied service at a Baton Rouge Waffle A disabled man who uses a dog for assistance was denied service at a Baton Rouge restaurant last month and said ignorance of federal disability rights law was probably the reason. Thomas Brent Mowrey, a former Arizona resident who has lived with his wife in an RV in Baton Rouge for two months now, said he was denied service Jan. 26 at the Waffle House on Siegen Lane near Interstate 10. Mowrey said a cook and the restaurant’s manager both said he had to leave because he had a dog with him. Mowrey, who said he is deaf in his left ear, uses a service dog to assist him. Mowrey provided documentation showing his dog, Lady, is certified as a service dog. Staff members at the Waffle House, however, told Mowrey that state health laws prohibit dogs from going inside restaurants, he said. “My dog has been on airplanes, inside Wal-Mart, CC’s (Community Coffee) and I’ve never had a problem,” Mowrey said Tues

Entering their freshman year at Oscar Smith High School, Adam and Wessley Amick did most everything together. If Adam dropped a pencil, Wessley picked it up for him. Whenever Adam's wheelchair moved through the crowded school hallways, Wessley always lumbered right behind him keeping an eye out. And when a class got rowdy, Wessley stood up to get between Adam and the noise. Adam, 17, has moderate cerebral palsy. Wessley served as Adam's service dog, accompanying the boy through middle school and nearly four years at Oscar Smith High. Wessley died Jan. 21. He had lymphoma. The flat-coated retriever left behind a young man who is much more independent than when the two first met. "Wessley helped Adam gain his confidence," said Terry Langdon, the guidance secretary at Oscar Smith. "Adam and Wessley weren't just a dog and a boy. It was just amazing the bond that these two had." The bond began when Adam was 10. He and his parents, Kevin and Tammi, went to For

A police drugs sniffer dog has died of a rare nose cancer after years sniffing cocaine during his work. Springer spaniel Max, aged nine, may have caught the disease because of the effect of cocaine and other drugs he was taught to detect. Police Inspector Anne Higgins, the dog's owner, fears the training may have led to the disease which led to him being put down last week. Max worked as a drugs dog with the Avon and Somerset police but lived with Insp Higgins, who is based at Tiverton police station in Devon. She said: "It is ironic the wonderful organ that made him successful in his work has been his demise. "It may or may not have been connected with what he used to do. Up until a couple of weeks ago he seemed fine and was doing well but it was an aggressive tumour. "It was very hard to have him put down but we had to do it. "I took him to the police station which he usually loved and was his favourite place but he did not show any reaction to being there and