Man who killed ex-girlfriend, then locked her body in his room, gets life
Martin Jiminez of South Boston pleaded guilty today to bludgeoning Melissa Hardy to death in June, 2013, and was sentenced to life in prison, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office...
View ArticleFort Point sign changed to reflect reality
Paul Villanova notes the angst on the Fort Point welcome sign, which famously greets you as you leave Fort Point.
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Court: Seafood companies can't worm way out of city taxes at Fish Pier
AttachmentSizeComplete Fish Pier ruling37.03 KBThe Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that five seafood companies are on the hook to Boston for several years' worth of back taxes on their...
View ArticleFog cutter
Eileen Murphy watched a Coast Guard cutter just off Castle Island this morning.
View ArticleCommission considers renaming convention center built by Tom Menino after Ray...
The newly convened commission charged with figuring out a way the city can permanently honor former Mayor Ray Flynn recently held its first meeting. According to a press release from City Council...
View ArticleMore Shiny Towers Going Up In The Seaport
The Boston Globe reports on the new Seaport Square development that's now approved to move forward. The project will include 832 apartments (from from 365-square-foot studios to 1,335-square-foot three...
View ArticleAnother condo building approved on West Broadway
The BRA yesterday approved a plan to replace an auto-repair shop and car lot at 150 W. Broadway, at B, with a new building with 24 condos, 3 of them considered "affordable."The $8-million proposal by...
View ArticleFirst phase of giant waterfront project gets underway
Work officially began yesterday on the $600-million One Seaport Square project off Northern Avenue in South Boston, which will feature more than 800 residential units in two 22-story buildings, a...
View ArticleRobert Campbell side-eyes the Innovation District
The Globe's architecture critic damns the area as less than the sum of its parts: To be fair, not many new developments look good until the cranes go home. But after you’ve made all the allowances you...
View ArticleWhat is it with drug stores and bomb threats?
UPDATE: Around 5:15 p.m., somebody called in a bomb threat the the CVS at 942 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park - which was the ninth or tenth drug-store bomb threat of the day. About ten minutes later, a...
View ArticleThe T doesn't fare well in the rain
Problems on the Red and Green lines mean crankytime for evening T commuters. Christie F. gives us a taste:35 minutes ago my train pulled out of Lechmere. We still haven't reached Haymarket.Southbound...
View ArticleKrafts look at Frontage Road for possible soccer stadium
The Globe reports the owners of the Revolution are talking to the city about possibly buying land along Frontage Road for a stadium that would get their team out of Foxboro and closer to where...
View ArticleImportant People not going to let the hoi polloi stand in the way of their...
Eric Wilbur reports that 100 of our Most Important People held soirees at the MIT Media Lab and the Gardner yesterday to convince the US Olympic Committee that Boston's the best place to hold the 2024...
View ArticleSouth Boston package thief makes off with bridesmaid's dress, other women's...
Capt. John Greland at C-6 reports that sometime Tuesday, a thief made off with a bridesmaid's dress in a UPS box on Telegraph Street near Gates and with women's clothing in a Postal Service box on...
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Two leaders of defunct South Boston Teamsters local guilty of shaking down...
AttachmentSizeIndictment492.1 KBVerdict106.15 KBA federal jury yesterday convicted John Perry, 62, of Woburn and Joseph "Jo Jo" Burhoe, 46, of Braintree, on a variety of racketeering charges related to...
View ArticleTwo pedestrians struck in South Boston over past couple of days, one dies
Police continue to investigate the death of a 67-year-old woman outside 495 Summer St. Wednesday afternoon.The woman, not identified by police, died at Tufts Medical Center not long after being...
View ArticleSpace saving started early in Southie this season
Capt. John Greland at C-6 reports:11/23 1 am-9am, 19 Mercer, 4 tires slashed on mv, 3 wm's told op they were saving spot he refused to move came back found tires slashed.
View ArticleArtists' group looking at $30-million South Boston expansion
The Boston Business Journal reports on plans being drawn up by Artists for Humanity for a nine-story addition to its current space in Fort Point.
View ArticleBit of a tight turn at Broadway
Justin Holmes captured the scene at Broadway shortly before 8 p.m. when a truck driver had a bit of trouble with a turn.
View ArticleWait, there were car chases in the priest scandal?
UPDATE: Or the statie car could have been there to provide protection to the crew filming stuff in front of them. See the comments for more.Eileen Murphy reports she watched car chases being filmed...
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