Former Boston Globe Columnist Is Returning, but to a Rival.

Reports that Mike Barnicle, the columnist who resigned for "The Boston Globe" newspaper in 1998, has been hired as a columnist at the "The Boston Herald." Barnicle's resignation in 1998 after failing to credit comedian George Carlin as the source of a series of jokes in one column and for his failure to verify the identities of two cancer patients in another; Work done by Barnicle for "The Daily News" of New York after his resignation from the Boston, Massachusetts paper.