Notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger dead at 89

Notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was found dead on Tuesday at a prison in West Virginia, one day after he was transferred to the high-security facility to serve the remainder of two life sentences for a string of brutal crimes, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.According to The New York Times, the 89-year-old Bulger, who was an FBI informant in addition to being a crime boss, had been beaten "unrecognizable" by fellow inmates.There was no immediate confirmation from the authoriti