Stubbly guy sought for South Boston bank robberies
The FBI's Bank Robbery Task Force reports two South Boston banks were robbed over the past month by a 6' white guy with "dark stubble" on his face.On Jan. 23, Stubble Man hit the Mt. Washington Bank...
View ArticleNo, these Silver Line buses aren't drag racing
Although that would be something to see. Ben Rey captured the scene at World Trade Center around 5:10 p.m., when an inbound bus kicked the bucket and another inbound bus was forced to squeeze around it...
View ArticleDodgemallow matches fierce, bouncy at the Condon School
City Year volunteer Hannah Smith reports on the after-school matches she helps run at the Condon School in South Boston:All the tables have been moved aside to create an open space, and line up along...
View ArticleSpring arrives at Castle Island
What seemed like most of South Boston showed up at Castle Island today for the first day of Sullivan's in 2014.We arrived at the end of the line at Sullivan's around 2:15 p.m. We got to place our...
View ArticleInvestigators probe South Boston fire that sends two to the hospital
A fire reported shortly after 9 p.m. at 265 E. St., sent two residents to the hospital in bad shape.Arson investigators and police detectives are currently on scene. The homicide unit was summoned as...
View ArticleSouth Boston fire victim dies
The Boston Fire Department reports a 90-year-old man injured in a Saturday fire on E Street died today at Mass. General.The second victim of the fire, an elderly woman, remains in serious condition at...
View ArticleApparently, Emperor Palpatine was a practicing Catholic
For some reason, the Globe suddenly cares what blowhard C.J. Doyle thinks about the St. Patrick's Day parade and Marty Walsh's decision to continue the city's mayoral boycott until it allows gay...
View ArticleGay group allowed into South Boston parade as long as they don't tell anybody...
The Globe reports on a deal brokered by Mayor Walsh that will let MassEquality march - as long as they don't wear shirts or carry signs that have the word "gay" on them. No word if they'll be allowed...
View ArticleOld doors for old salts
The doors at 16 Fid Kennedy Ave. in the Marine Industrial Park.
View ArticleThe best policed blocks in Boston?
Yesterday morning, I drove down to the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel on Congress Street (I was on a panel discussion). When I came out, there was some minor thing going on in which a guest...
View ArticlePolice, fire searching Fort Point Channel
Started shortly after noon, in the area around the Summer Street bridge. Later expanded the search as far down the channel as Gillette.
View ArticleGroup that is pro-LGBT will march in South Boston parade, but won't utter the...
The Globe reports on the decision by the South Boston Association of Non-Profits to march under the don't-ask-don't-tell restrictions set by parade organizers.Earlier:MassEquality says no deal.But what...
View ArticleRural Catholic school pulls out of St. Patrick's Day parade to avoid teh gay
Peter Wilson at WBZ reports the Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Harvard won't let its students march in the St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston because it doesn't want anybody thinking it...
View ArticleParade organizers: LGBT veterans group a lie and a sham
Well, that went well:The Council performs background checks on groups wishing to march prior to their acceptance. We were unable to find any evidence of LGBT Veterans for Equality that would confirm...
View ArticleSouthie scouting starts for Whitey biopic
Emily Murphy shows us the notice she got from the producers of Black Mass, the Johnny Depp movie based on the Whitey book by two former Globe reporters, not the script being worked on by Affleck and...
View ArticleBreaking: Wacko Hurley has gay friends
And his wife declares he's not a bigot. Glad that's settled.
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Not out of the woods yet
John McLachlan walked along the Charles yesterday, noted the puddling caused by warming temperatures, but also the unusual ice floes pushed up onto shore. The river today.Brad Kelly, meanwhile, noted a...
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Teller asks would-be bank robber to remove his hood and he does
The FBI reports a hooded man walked into the Eastern Bank branch at 470 W. Broadway in South Boston last Thursday with robbery on his mind.But then the teller asked him to take his hood down. And he...
View ArticleSouth Boston project gets variances over objections of neighbors whose...
The red-hot South Boston housing market showed signs of chafing today when a divided Zoning Board of Appeals today approved a controversial residential project despite opposition from not only...
View ArticleSo those gay veterans who don't exist?
Turns out they do.Earlier:Parade organizers said they didn't exist.
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