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Purchased in January from former gang boss Howie Winter, the auto body shop in Somerville, Mass., is best known as a place where James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi forged a partnership in the 1970s that led them to the top of Boston’s underworld and the center of an FBI scandal.

A new poll of California voters shows Proposition 8, a proposed constitutional amendment that would reserve marriage for opposite- sex couples, has a 9 percentage point lead among likely voters, 52% to 43%.