Man repeatedly hurls N-word at bouncer, spits in his mouth; bouncer breaks...
When bouncers at Lucky's on Congress Street in the Seaport say that when they told an out-of-town patron he couldn't smoke in the restaurant vestibule, he unleashed a torrent of N-word-laced expletives...
View ArticleMan shot repeatedly on West 7th Street in South Boston
Live Boston reports a man was shot several times shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday at West 7th Street and Joyce Hayes Way in the West Broadway development in South Boston. The victim was taken away...
View ArticleCourt says man got a fair trial on charges he raped a coworker in a Seaport...
The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a Virginia man's convictions for raping a co-worker and photographing her in the nude without her consent while they were in Boston on a business trip in 2018.A...
View ArticleSouth Boston Italian restaurant that closed because of pandemic won't be...
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by Gaetano Mirisola to convert his closed restaurant at 200 L St. at East 8th St. into an apartment.Mirisola's lawyer, George Morancy, told the board...
View ArticleThe Red Line decides to screw; there's a dead train at Andrew
A Red Line train gave up the ghost at Andrew. The T reported delays of 20 minutes as the train sat there, moldering, but now that they've brought it out back and service has resumed, delays have...
View ArticleThe empty, disappearing city
Normally, Michael Spicher would see plenty of vehicles - and downtown Boston - when he looks out his window over Old Colony Avenue in South Boston. At 8:45 a.m., though, he saw neither.Up in Revere,...
View ArticleNo fun drinking alone
Jay Kenney found quite the line outside the Broadway in South Boston at the height of the storm.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleSo a guy walks into a Southie bar with a gun - and promptly gets arrested
Boston Police report officers responding to a report of a man with a gun at the Playwright, 658 East Broadway early this morning found the man - and his gun and the nine bullets he had in a magazine -...
View ArticleMaking road snow disappear
Eileen Murphy watched a crew clear the asphalt of snow along East Broadway in South Boston tonight, to drive it over to one of Boston's nine snow farms.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleWoman collapses after her drink might have been spiked at a South Boston bar;...
A woman and her friend had just left the Lincoln on West Broadway when they turned the corner onto Dorchester Street and the woman started vomiting and then collapsed. Her friend flagged down a couple...
View Article'Self driving' Tesla fails miserably on the streets of South Boston
Tesla is currently beta-testing something called "Full Self Driving." Taylor Ogan, CEO of Snow Bull Capital, a local investment firm, decided to try it out in Southie, you know, where the roads are...
View ArticleBoston could get more Taco Bells, starting in South Boston
The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to let a Taco Bell franchisee build one of its next-gen outlets, which feels more like a cantina than a fast-food drive-through, and which could...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Oh, come on, really, you're using a pressure...
A concerned citizen filed a 311 report this morning about how somebody on N Street in South Boston decided to use a pressure cooker as a space saver:Probably not the best idea given Boston's history...
View ArticleTwo-alarm fire on National Street in South Boston
Photo by BFD.The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 14 National St. in South Boston around 8 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.The department reports firefighters were...
View ArticleMan on the Red Line asks guy to stop leaning into him; guy pulls out one of...
Transit Police report arresting a local man on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon for an incident on a Red Line train hurtling underneath South Boston during the Friday afternoon rush hour....
View ArticleOne guess what a developer wants to replace a Seaport parking garage with
A Canadian developer says it will soon file plans with the BPDA to replace a 361-space parking garage on Farnsworth Street with a four-story life-sciences building with no parking whatsoever.In a...
View ArticleSouth Boston on alert for guy who walks into people's homes claiming to be...
Boston Police report they're investigating several instances in which people not expecting packages find that "a male states he is delivering a package and enters the resident’s home while they are...
View ArticlePeople were having fun along and in the water today
Chris in 02134 reports people were grooving to the sunset along the Charles River Esplanade this evening:Beautiful sky, good music, cold ice and warm air down at the Esplanade...
View ArticleOne of the last undeveloped lots on West Broadway to get developed with a...
Rendering by Tim Johnson Architect.The Zoning Board of Appeal today gave approval to a plan that would turn the parking lot next to Shenanigans on West Broadway into a five-story building with eight...
View ArticleMan gets four years to think about his Grand Prix, Covid-19, ice-rink...
John Casey, best known locally as the CFO of the failed Seaport Grand Prix cooked up after the failed Olympics bid, was sentenced today to four years in federal prison for a variety of frauds and...
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