Gillette worker not so sharp: Pleads guilty to stealing razor blades from...
A worker at the Gillette plant in South Boston and two accomplices have pleaded guilty to federal charges that they stole shaving cartridges hot off the assembly line to sell on eBay, the US Attorney's...
View ArticleWork begins on Martin's Park near Children's Museum
Adam Castiglioni watched as Jane Richard of Dorchester spoke at the groundbreaking for the park to be named for her brother, Martin, who died in the Marathon bombings.WBZ has more on her comments and...
View ArticleGunfire hits car, bullet flies into apartment in South Boston
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 00:45Around 12:45 a.m. on 7 Carmody Ct., off Mercer Street. Nobody hit.Free tagging:Â GunsNeighborhoods:Â South BostonTopics:Â Crime
View ArticleMace mystery: Who sprayed whom at South Boston bar?
There are two things everybody involved can agree on: Around 1:30 a.m. on July 5, the small entryway at Croke Park, 268 West Broadway, was filled with both pepper spray and a group of angry women.But...
View ArticleSouth Boston bar found not at fault for pepper-spray cloud that enveloped its...
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday found Croke Park did nothing wrong in the way it handled an incident early on July 5 in which several women were coated with pepper spray.Police were unable to...
View ArticleDeveloper proposes aerial gondola service to the Seaport
The Globe reports Millennium Partners is beginning to talk up a $100-million proposal for a tramway from South Station to the Seaport.
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Flaming trash truck ties up Ted Williams Tunnel
Boston firefighters use saw to cut open truck. Photo by BFD.A trash truck burst into flames in the Ted Williams Tunnel around 12:50 p.m., shutting the tunnel and sending a plume of black smoke high...
View ArticleMan who was arrested for upskirting last fall at a Red Line station is...
A man arrested for aiming a camera up a woman's skirt at Porter on the Red Line last fall was arrested Sunday afternoon for aiming a camera up a woman's skirt at Broadway station, Transit Police...
View ArticleBeast update
The phone number on the original flyer was incorrect. The correct number is 617-858-5963 Also, this Twitter post says BTD building, but it's referring to the Ted Williams Tunnel vent building. Beast...
View ArticleBagels to roll into the Seaport
The Boston Licensing Board on Wednesday hears from Better Bagels, seeking a license to bring "New York style" bagels to 83 Seaport Blvd., across from District Hall.The board's hearings start at 10 a.m....
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: South Boston is for the birds
A concerned citizen squawked to the city today about this chicken running loose in front of the post office on East 3 St. We will all poulet for you, little buddy.
View ArticleMan and cat reunited
TrueNE_79 reports that Curtis, a homeless man well known on either side of Fort Point Channel, has his Beast back. Beast had gone missing late last month, but:Was found down in Seaport, leash wrapped...
View ArticleSouth Boston Waterfront to get another corporate headquarters - and a...
Skanska said today that PTC is leasing 250,000 square feet of space in its new 17-story office tower at 121 Seaport Blvd. and will move its corporate headquarters there from Needham.PTC, founded in...
View ArticleMan is out of his gourd - for now
The Globe interviews a Revere man who has what is now a 500-lb. pumpkin that he plans to hollow out and use to paddle across Boston Harbor, from Jeffries Point in East Boston to the Fish Pier in South...
View ArticleDeveloper wants to tear down three buildings on West Broadway in Perkins Square
A developer is telling the BPDA it wants to tear down the buildings that now house, among other things, Nick's Pizza and the Family Dollar on West Broadway and replace them with a single building with...
View ArticleGood news for ampersand fans who like to drink
The Playwright Bar, 658 E. Broadway in South Boston, is changing its name to the Punk & Poet.Owner Joe Arcari told the Boston Licensing Board this morning that other than the name and some cosmetic...
View ArticleThirsty Seaport on verge of getting its first full liquor store
The Wine Gallery chain is planning a new outlet in a new Seaport Boulevard building that its attorney says would be the first store to offer everything from beer to hard liquor in the South Boston...
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Guy climbs up construction crane on West Broadway, starts coming down, falls...
Man on crane. Photo by Nate Morrow.Updated, 5:15 p.m.Around 4:30 p.m. a shirtless man went into the construction site at 6 West Broadway, near the T stop, and climbed to the top of a 15-story crane,...
View ArticleAnti-Sessions protest on Thursday
The Keebler Elf General will be at the Moakley Courthouse tomorrow and so will protesters. The ACLU is organizing an Unwelcoming Party for Jeff Sessions, 2-4 p.m. on the sidewalk outside the courthouse.
View ArticleBoy who drowned at Carson Beach was denied life jacket because staff only had...
The family of Kyzr Willis, who drowned while at a city-run summer program at Carson Beach last year, is suing Mayor Walsh, the city and individual workers at the program.The family filed suit in...
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