Man admits to being mediocre serial bank robber
Thomas Nee, 46, yesterday pleaded guilty to robbing five Boston banks - three of which he fled from with $380 or less, the US Attorney's office reports.Nee faces sentencing on Jan. 9 for the heists...
View ArticleAugust really stunk for one local chef
First the basement flooded at Ming Tsai's Blue Dragon on A Street. Then a water-main break sent water up into the restaurant's grease traps, causing a second, and smellier, flood. Tsai explained all...
View ArticleNo surprise in mayoral race; district city council races shape up
UPDATED at 10:05 p.m.Mayor Marty Walsh will face off against City Councilor Tito Jackson in the November elections, according to preliminary results from the city elections department. Jackson will his...
View ArticleThe rise of women of color in Boston politics
David Bernstein writes that the interesting news in last night's results were not in the race for mayor - which surprised no one - but in the council races, which could mean two black women joining the...
View ArticleVerizon officially announces FiOS expansion, including in neighborhoods...
Verizon announced today it will soon make its FiOS Internet/cable/phone service available in all of Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale and Roxbury, and in parts of South Boston, including...
View ArticleScaly-hating Redcoats visit Broadway station
There's a reason the Revolution started here, it seems.
View ArticleGourdgeous day for a cruise across the harbor
Steve Annear reports on that guy who traversed Boston Harbor in a giant pumpkin today - with some help from an outboard motor he attached to the gourd.
View ArticleCampaign roundup: Walsh tells Jackson he'll have just two debates, and he'll...
CORRECTION: The candidates will have two debates after all - they agreed to a second one on Oct. 11.After both sides agreed not to scab out at a WBZ debate, we're left with just a single mayoral...
View ArticleSouthie no longer Southie enough to stand in for Southie in TV series, so...
UPDATE: They did do some filming in Southie last month.Ally Jarmanning posts a notice she found on her door in Dorchester's Polish Triangle today for a meeting about a film crew that plans to do some...
View ArticleTo reduce the odds of being smashed in the face with a beer bottle at a bar,...
Sat, 09/09/2017 - 01:45Two men involved in an altercation at a South Boston restaurant involving pepper and a beer bottle face criminal charges, a police detective told the Boston Licensing Board...
View ArticleSuffolk looks to add more dorms, but maybe in East Boston, South Boston or...
The Suffolk Journal reports the university is looking to increase the percentage of students it currently has room for in dorms from 25% or so and quotes honcho and former City Councilor and East...
View ArticleMeanwhile, at our new best big HQ
Reuters: GE vows $20 billion asset sales, 'sweeping change' as profit falls.H/t Brian.
View ArticleNew Cell Tower in south
Walking up the street today I missed the view of the old Handbook building to only see this new cell tower!. I guess if you live the Back Bay you are the only ones allowed to chime in on this...
View ArticleWorker breaks ankle in fall onto bank roof in South Boston
"High-angle" rescue in South Boston.Jim Gavaghan, who took the photo, reports firefighters and EMTs rushed to 636 East Broadway in South Boston around 12:10 p.m. today after the worker fell onto the...
View ArticleUnmoored
Paul Nutting watched the BPD Marine Unit investigate a sailboat on the rocks off Castle Island in Dorchester Bay this afternoon.
View ArticleRed Line riders left feeling blue after a train dies at Andrew
The MBTA reports "minor" delays inbound due to a train joining the choir eternal at Andrew.
View ArticleRebuttal to Boston Globe's endorsement of Mayor Walsh
I am the co-chair of Coalition Against Indycar Boston. I'm posting this on behalf of CAIB attorney David Lurie.The Globe’s full-throated endorsement of Mayor Walsh’s re-election bid (“A Second Term...
View ArticleAnthony's Pier 4 replacement to be decorated with stuff from the old place
The Globe reports on the new restaurant going into the complex rising on Pier 4.
View ArticleSpring is busting out all over
Eileeen Murphy enjoyed the flowers at the firehouse garden at K and 4 streets in South Boston today.Wait, what? It's Nov. 3, not May 3?Let it be know that on November 3rd, I am outside in shorts and a...
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