Published April 1, 2011

You can stow away the fake mustaches and re-box the snake-in-a-can toy, Mother Nature has beaten you all to the punch. Yes, it’s April 1. Yes, there’s snow on the ground. Turn April Fools’ Day into Thanksgiving and be thankful you don’t live in central Mass.

It also happens to be my favorite holiday of the year, Opening Day. The Red Sox finally open their (admittedly interminable) season this afternoon in Texas. At the start of the season, the Sox are on the short-list of World Series favorites. The first pitch against the Rangers is scheduled for 4:05 pm.

Presenting a complex picture of a loner medical student who celebrated Passover with his grandparents mere hours after robbing a woman at gunpoint, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office released files compiled for the investigation of Philip Markoff. Markoff, dubbed the “Craigslist Killer” after he was arrested in connection with a spate of murders in Boston, committed suicide in August while being held in jail.

The brother of the man who allegedly shot and killed a Woburn police officer during a robbery was indicted yesterday on charges related to the December 26 shootout. Dominic Cinelli also died in the shootout; his brother Arthur allegedly provided support for the robbery-gone-wrong.

What we’re following: We’ll continue to report on the snow/rain storm tormenting the psyches of Bostonians, a wind energy project in Dartmouth and the new dean of Boston College Law School. Radio Boston will dive behind the headlines and review the week in the news.