14-year-old arrested with loaded gun at South Boston school, police say
Boston Police report arresting a teen they say went to class at Up Academy, 215 Dorchester St. in South Boston with a loaded gun in his backpack today. Read more.Tue, 11/28/2023 - 14:06Neighborhoods:...
View ArticleState sues Nazis for being violent goons across eastern Massachusetts
From the complaint: Goon finger-shooting performer and parent at Taunton drag-queen story hour.The state Attorney General's office today sued the state's home-grown Nazi group and two of its leaders on...
View ArticleBoston-based recipe company could be on hook for $300,000 in online-tracking...
A New York woman who sued America's Test Kitchen over Facebook-based "tracking" code on its Web site has agreed to settle the case without damages after the concern agreed to remove the code from its...
View ArticleMan charged with violent armed robbery outside South Boston Burger King;...
A Framingham man was arraigned today on charges related to a Nov. 16 stickup of two hearing-impaired people outside the Burger King at 280 West Broadway in South Boston - which the Suffolk County...
View ArticleMan falls on tracks at Broadway, is rescued before train arrives
Around 3:10 p.m., a man fell on the inbound Red Line tracks at Broadway. A rider reports two men jumped down on the track to try to get him off, but he wasn't moving. T workers and police were able to...
View ArticleRoxbury shooting suspect in an SUV hits BPD cruiser in South Boston during...
State Police troopers chased a suspect in a Roxbury shooting last week and a possible South Shore incident tonight up Day Boulevard to Castle Island, then down East 1st Street, where the driver of the...
View ArticleWork should begin by summer on $2-billion makeover and expansion of Mary...
Rendering by CBT.The BPDA board yesterday approved the first phase of a long-term re-do of Mary Ellen McCormack in South Boston, under which a developer working with the BHA will replace 529 antiquated...
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A brief respite
See it larger.Did you notice it briefly got lighter for a bit a little after 1? Alisa Bokulich looked out from her office at BU and captured the rainbow that sprang up over Cambridge before it got dark...
View ArticleBobbing tea chests in Boston Harbor
After protesters dumped the tea into the harbor 250 years ago, they tossed the chests it had been in into the harbor as well. J.L. Bell posts a copy of an account by Rev. Dr. John Prince of Salem, who...
View ArticleBaaaad boy captured in South Boston after wild and woolly chase
Live Boston has video of one of the two sheep that went on the lam in South Boston today, captured following "a short pursuit involving Boston Police officers and a 3-legged dog" on Preble...
View ArticleTwo South Boston churches broken into, one by men in search of copper wiring,...
Boston Police report arresting two men they say broke into the former St. Vincent Church on E Street last night in search of copper wiring and a man who broke into St. Monica Church on Old Colony...
View ArticleAndrew Square could get neighborhood bar with a whiskey program and a scratch...
Update: Approved.The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the owner of the Quiet Few in East Boston's Jeffries Point open a similar establishment, to be called Small Victories, at 400...
View ArticleLocal celebrichef suddenly closes three of her restaurants
The Boston Business Journal reports that Barbara Lynch has abruptly closed her Menton, Sportello and Drink outlets in Fort Point, blaming her landlord. Her other restaurants, all outside Fort Point,...
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Storm rolls in and out
See it larger.It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher...
View ArticleFort Point murmuration
The Fort Pointer watched starlings doing some synchronized flying over Wormwood Park in Fort Point at dusk the other day.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: BTD needs to honor the memory of Bill Belichick
An irate citizen files a 311 complaint about the parking situation at Joseph Agri and Rev. Burke streets in South Boston:There are about 15 cars parked in this neighborhood with non-resident Park and...
View ArticleSign of a changing Southie?
Eileen Murphy had to do a double take today when she saw what you can buy at the East Broadway Walgreens these days:Can't say I ever expected to see "Catholicism for Dummies" at the Southie...
View ArticleAnother Red Line ride that blew, due to a problem at Andrew
Around 12:45 p.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays while "personnel inspect the tracks at Andrew." Amy Clark reports the driver on their train was a bit more specific:Standing by at JFK because of "a...
View ArticleDoes the Red Line need us to pray? More problems, this time at Broadway
The MBTA first reported problems on the Red Line due to some vague track problem at Broadway, but now says you can blame the current delays on signal problems at Broadway.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleThe immortal Fort Point pothole and how it got that way
On the Channel explores the pothole that just keeps getting bigger on Thomson Place, an increasingly busy Fort Point Street because Boston Public Works won't fix it, not because the department is...
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