Who says Southie is changing? The L Street Cumbies is open again
Eileen Murphy brings the glad tidings that the L Street Cumberland Farms has re-opened after some remodeling.Still, in possible deference to the changing socioeconomic composition of the neighborood,...
View ArticleBPD sergeant pays $99 to help elderly man out of a towing jam
District C-6 Capt. John Greland recounts how one of his officers helped a man out last night:So last night my CSO [Community Service Officer] Sgt Tim Gaughan meets an elderly gentleman who is upset and...
View ArticleDid the rainbow start or end at the Boston Fish Pier?
Neil was among those who enjoyed the rainbow (or in some cases, rainbows) after the rain squall that moved through around 4:45 p.m. - heralding the polar front that sets us up for Sunday's nor'easter....
View ArticleBody recovered from Fort Point Channel near W. 4 Street bridge
Updated with BFD info.Around 8:40 a.m., in the middle of the channel, the Boston Fire Department reports.It's near where two men were safely fished out of the water in December, near where a number of...
View ArticleCoyote roams the streets of South Boston
Spotted on B Street. Maybe he heard about the Southie deer.
View ArticleThe day's most rotund runner
Greta Gaffin captured a roly-poly runner in the St. Patrick's 5K in South Boston today.
View ArticleMolotov thrown in Southie
A Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of a house in South Boston, but the device failed to ignite and no one was hurt, the Boston Herald reports. It's being investigated as a possible hate...
View ArticleSomething that looked like a Molotov cocktail hurled through window of black,...
Being investigated as a hate crime, the Herald reports.Neighborhoods:Â South BostonTopics:Â CrimeFree tagging:Â
View ArticlePiping in the parade
Arturo Gossage took a lot of photos at the St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston.Copyright Arturo Gossage. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
View ArticleOnly four arrests, but twice as many public-drinking tickets as last year at...
Boston Police report arresting four alleged lunkheads for lunkhead-type behavior during yesterday's extended-version St. Patrick's Day parade - none from anywhere near South Boston.Police add, however,...
View ArticleDA: Man was trying to sell drugs to passengers on a T bus after the parade...
A North Attleboro man was ordered held on $25,000 bail yesterday on gun charges affter an incident on an MBTA shuttle bus after the St. Patrick's Day parade, the Suffolk County District Attorney's...
View ArticleCouncilor who headed up council's Olympics oversight wants to take a look at...
City councilors deserve a chance to get answers to questions about the proposed IndyCar Boston race this fall, City Councilor Bill Linehan says.The council today approved his request to look at a...
View ArticlePolice: South Boston bank robber tries to make getaway in cab, fails
Boston Police report nabbing the guy who robbed the Citizen's Bank branch at 441 W. Broadway yesterday morning after he ran a few blocks away and then got into a cab.A male suspect, later identified as...
View ArticleWorker dies in seafood-plant ammonia leak
A worker at a Stavis Seafood facility at 7 Channel St. died from ammonia exposure tonight, Boston Fire officials report.Firefighters responded shortly before 6 p.m. and tried to go into the Stavis...
View ArticleWorld Shaving Headquarters to be joined by World Diesel Locomotive Headquarters
UPDATE: Original "World Refrigerator Headquarters" headline changed, because GE is selling off its consumer-appliances division.GE announced today it's buying a couple of buildings and land on Necco...
View ArticleThe BRA brings good things to life, and GE
The Globe reports that GE probably won't actually be buying those two Necco Street buildings from Proctor and Gamble - instead, the BRA will buy them, then let GE occupy them rent-free for 20 years.
View ArticleYou need a permit for everything in this city
Capt. John Greland at District C-6 reports:Easter Bunny arrested no permit for Easter Eggs.
View ArticleCavalcade of condos continues in South Boston
A developer has proposed a 5-story condo building on what is now half of a parking lot at 377 W. 1 St. in South Boston.Donald Clancy is proposing to use the roughly 8,000-square-foot lot for a building...
View ArticlePolice: Guy smashes bottle across man's head at one bar, calmly walks down...
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether the Playwright, 658 E. Broadway in South Boston, could have done anything to prevent a Feb. 6 incident in which a patron decided it was a good idea...
View ArticleVigil tonight for seafood worker asphyxiated by ammonia
Friends and co-workers of Brian Caron, killed by an ammonia leak at Stavis Seafood in the Boston Marine Industrial Park last week, will remember him tonight with a vigil in South Boston.The...
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