Hacker posts war images on website

A hacker posted graphic images of injured children and war rubble where ads for musicals are usually found on the Gloucester Stage Company's website. The company described the message as supporting Hezbollah and suspected the hack occurred because Gloucester Stage's cofounder and artistic director is Israel Horovitz. The company's webmaster re-secured the site. ``It's not even a mosquito bite," said Horovitz, reached on his cellphone yesterday. ``It's just somebody hacking a little theater's computer at a time when bombs are falling on families."

WILMINGTON

A Middlesex County grand jury indicted a Wilmington man Tuesday on charges of motor vehicle homicide and operating under the influence for a June 4 crash on Interstate 93 that killed Antoine Caissie of Bristol, N.H. State Police responded to a one-car crash in Wilmington about 2 a.m. and found Phillip Marquard , 46, in the pickup he had been driving, on the median guardrail. Caissie, 49, his passenger, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Marquard was intoxicated, and he was arrested after being treated for injuries. Marquard pleaded not guilty in Woburn District Court on June 6 and was ordered held on $15,000 bail.

PORTLAND, Maine

A man wanted in last month's fatal shooting in Boston of a 19-year-old woman will soon be headed to Massachusetts to face a murder charge. Laron Lewis Richardson, 18, of Jamaica Plain waived his right not to be extradited yesterday, a day after his arrest following a standoff at a home near the University of Southern Maine. The Portland District Court judge said Richardson must be transferred within 30 days, but his lawyer said he probably will be extradited within 48 hours. Richardson was wanted in the July 22 killing of Analicia Perry, who was shot in the head as she was lighting candles at a shrine to her brother, who was slain at the same location four years ago. (AP)

A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in US District Court to nine years and seven months in prison for stalking his former girlfriend in Kennebunk before breaking into her apartment and assaulting her in May 2005. Andre Winston, 26, pleaded guilty March 23 to the federal charge of interstate stalking. (AP)

BOSTON

Three project managers for Mass. Electric Construction Co. were charged yesterday with overbilling for work done on the Big Dig under a scheme that allegedly bilked the government out of more than $80,000. A federal indictment alleges that Steven M. Bowers, 54, of Fairhaven, who was senior project manager for the company on an Interstate 93 tunnel contract, defrauded the federal government from January 2003 through June 2005 by submitting bills falsely claiming that work done by apprentice electricians was completed by journeymen, who are paid at higher rates. Two other managers, Brian DiRe of Winchester and Richard Joyce of Norwood, have agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to submit false claims, said US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan.

A live grenade was found on a Roxbury street yesterday, forcing police to close a section of the road and call the bomb squad. In a written statement, Boston police described the grenade as a ``working explosive device"and a type similar to those used in military training that had been ``improvised." No one was hurt. It was found under a garbage can at 71 George St. just after 7 a.m.

Boston's Jewish community has raised more than $8 million to help meet the emergency and medical needs of people in Haifa , Israel, since a cease-fire in the Israel-Lebanon war took effect Aug. 14. The Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston said it has raised $7.6 million. Temple Emanuel in Newton is helping Congregation Moriyah in Haifa construct a safe room by raising $50,000, and Rabbi David Paskin of Temple Beth Abraham in Canton is donating the proceeds from his annual bike-a-thon to Rambam Hospital. Also, the Greater Boston Chapter of American Friends of Magen David Adom is helping to renovate the headquarters of an Israeli ambulance service to ensure faster responses.