Friday's Top Stories for July 18, 2008

Murder shocks close-knit neighborhood

Lewis St. man victim of vicious multiple stabbings

 By The Advocate

  EVERETT - At 9:30 p.m. on Sunday evening, Everett Police responded to a well-being check at 20 Lewis St. and found the body of 48 year-old Philip Capone, who had been stabbed multiple times. Capone was pronounced dead at the scene.

  A spokesperson for the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office stated that Capone failed to pick-up his mother at his sister’s house in Stoughton at 5:00 p.m.

  Following a phone call to a neighbor who stated to a family member that the front window of their home was broken and the victim failed to respond to shouts, which prompted a phone call to the police.

  Family members described Philip Capone as a doting son who was devoted to his mother, Theresa. His father had passed away several months earlier.

  Capone was employed as a delivery driver for Optima Shipping, a Woburn-based package delivery and courier company.

  “It’s a terrible tragedy,” said Lewis St. resident and alderman-at-large Wayne A. Matewsky, in a telephone interview. “Phil and his mom are good people, who lived in our close-knit neighborhood for years. It’s a shame something like this would happen to such a nice guy,” he added. “It upsets everyone who knew him.”

Last call for alcohol at 1 AM says courts

By The Advocate

  REVERE - It all started in Lynn when the city decided to rollback it’s drinking hours to 1:00 a.m. Revere’s Licensing Commission, citing the probability of the city becoming a “last call” destination and in the interest of public safety followed suit. And despite lawsuits, preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders, the city will have its wish on July 1.

  But the battle is far from over.

  Attorneys for The Squire Club and The Cove will head to court in Boston on July 23 to argue the matter before the US District Court.

  Last Wednesday, US District Judge Nancy Gertner denied a temporary restraining order for the two establishments. The attorneys argued that the city’s License Commission’s decision violated the bar owners’ constitutional right to due process and were also not notified that the amendment to the liquor licenses would also subject their entertainment and common victualler licenses to a rollback.

  Attorneys for The Shipwreck Lounge and The Esquire Lounge were recently denied a preliminary injunction by a Suffolk Superior Court judge on June 20, but plan to move forward with a lawsuit.

  Mayor Thomas G. Ambrosino has stated that he was happy with the courts’ decisions.