Cabdriver dies after crashing into building

A taxi driver from Boston died yesterday after his cab crashed into a building in Somerville, police said. Marc Filsaime, 59, of Hyde Park, was driving a Boston-licensed cab about 2 a.m. when he hit a building at 260 Beacon St., Somerville, police said in a statement. No others were in the taxi at the time of the crash. Filsaime was later pronounced dead at Somerville Hospital. Somerville police and State Police are investigating.

An unidentified woman was arrested last evening after claiming she had a bomb at the Boston University library on Commonwealth Avenue, a college spokesman said. Boston police and the bomb squad surveyed the scene and did not find any device, said Colin Riley, the college's director of media relations. Students were cleared from the area as authorities investigated, he said. The woman, whose name was not released, is scheduled to be arraigned today, Riley said.

Detectives are investigating the possibility that a body found near the golf course in Franklin Park was an overdose death. The body was reportedly dumped from a car near an entrance to the Franklin Park Zoo on Saturday shortly before 9 p.m. Officer James Kenneally, a Boston police spokesman, said that the victim was a Hispanic male in his 20s and that an autopsy was expected by today. Officers were alerted to the body by a 911 caller who saw a brown car, possibly a Nissan or a Toyota, drive into Plaisted Road and unload the body, Kenneally said. Initially the death was investigated as a homicide.

The Massachusetts Freemasons started their 275th anniversary celebrations yesterday with an ecumenical service at Trinity Church in Copley Square. Robert L. Steadman, retired chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, delivered the featured address. The anniversary meeting is today at 2:30 p.m. at the Westin Copley Place. Robert Huke, the communication and development director of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, said over 50 jurisdictions from throughout the world are expected at the meeting. The Freemasons will conduct tours of the Freedom Trail and the Grand Lodge at Boylston and Tremont streets through today, officials said.

Two Fall River men are being hailed as heroes after they rescued a 21-month-old girl from a storm drain Saturday evening, The Herald-News of Fall River reported. Bruce Hebert and Pedro Davila were in the area of Fourth and Morgan streets where the girl was walking when she fell into a drain basin. They quickly opened the storm drain cover, and Davila jumped in to save the little girl. Once they retrieved her, they performed CPR until police arrived. She was taken to St. Anne's Hospital in Fall River, and later transported to Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence as a precautionary measure, police said.

A Marlborough man facing charges that he raped a 7-year-old was ordered held without bail for allegedly ignoring a judge's order and trying to contact the alleged victim. Jason Eberhardt was arrested Wednesday and charged with rape in connection with a December incident. He was released without bail with multiple conditions, including that he not contact the alleged victim or witnesses. But authorities say Eberhardt, 32, called the alleged victim twice Thursday from a pay phone. (AP)

A police officer who was cleared and reinstated after he was fired for allegedly driving drunk has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and Chief Robert Crowley. The suit filed Friday in federal court by Timothy Kaes seeks unspecified monetary damages. The suit accuses Crowley of maliciously ordering a criminal proceeding against Kaes without probable cause, and alleges that his rights were violated when his vehicle was searched. Kaes's sport utility vehicle hit a hydrant, a sign, and another car before slamming into the garage of a home on Sept. 27, 2005. Kaes said he crashed trying to avoid hitting a coyote in the road. An arbitrator found there was virtually no evidence that Kaes was drunk when he crashed, and that there had been no grounds to fire or even discipline him. (AP)