WBZ Newsradio reports that Dick Summer, who worked as a DJ at WBZ in the 1960s and 1970, where he developed an overnight talk format that he eventually brought with him to New York, has died.
Dick Summer bio by Boston radio historian Donna Halper.
The New York Daily News reports that Rich Davey, who once ran the T and then MassDOT before heading up the effort to bring the Olympics here this year, is denying reports that he's going to leave his job running the New York subway system to take the head job at Massport, in what the financially flailing News called "the small town on the Charles River."
Passerby took this photo of the mangled bike still by the side of the road about 25 minutes later.
A woman bicycling through Charles Circle at Cambridge and Charles streets was hit by the driver of a dump truck who kept going - until he was flagged down by state troopers around 8:30 a.m. yesterday. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm have given notice that they will shut Marian Manor, which they have operated since 1954, in 120 days.
A London resident was sent to the Suffolk County jail yesterday after she couldn't make the $1,500 bail set at her arraignment for trafficking between 50 and 100 pounds of marijuana, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Three men who are charged with ending brutal murderer Whitey Bulger's life in a West Virginia prison by smashing his head in 2018 in have reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Read more.
Rendering by R&B Design.
A Newton developer has proposed replacing a two-family house and parking lot at 470 Western Ave. in Brighton with a six-story, 39-unit apartment building. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Jake Kassen reports that, after years of seeing the aftermath of storrowings, he watched his first roof actually get sheared off, around 9:10 a.m. inbound, by the Silber footbridge. Read more.
The MBTA reports all that work on the Red Line between Park and JFK/UMass means it's eliminated 13 more slow zones on the line. But all that work can still be for nought if trains keep dying on those zippy tracks, as happened tonight when the T reported delays of up to 20 minutes due to a train gasping its last at Broadway.
A man who lives on the fourth floor of a Martha Road apartment building was arrested today on charges he aimed a green laser pointer at a Coast Guard helicopter whose pilot was trying to land at the neighboring Massachusetts General Hospital last September. Read more.
Rendering by Embarc.
The Fenway Community Development Corp. has filed plans for a six-story, 24-unit apartment building to replace a vacant laundromat at 112 Queensberry St. in the Fenway. Read more.
Mayor Wu and family and two BPS students are at the Vatican this week for a climate summit hosted by the Pope. Read more.
Fresh off its victory over the sleeping peeps of Allston, Taco Bell is going to try to build another wee-hours taco-like emporium in Boston, this time at 1084 Boylston St., near Mass. Ave., where presumably starving (musical) artists from Berklee will quieren Taco Bell at the end of a long night. Read more.
At 9:49 a.m., the MBTA reported delays on the Green Line Extension between East Somerville as workers went into Officer Mike mode and escorted some baby ducks off the tracks.
Earlier:
Aw, shucks: More ducks.
Transit Police report that around 3 this morning, somebody in a 2015 Hyundai drove onto the inbound Green Line tracks at Packards Corner, and then, realizing he couldn't escape the clutches of the sarlacc pit there, got out with a pal and ran away. "TPD Detectives to follow up," police say. "Vehicle towed from scene, no damage to tracks."
Remember when the T said the cure for the old, wheezing Orange Line cars was to buy new ones? The T reported, at 6:26 a.m., delays on the Orange Line because of a dead train at Wellington.
At 7:49 a.m., the MBTA reported that the Red Line, after part of it took a refreshing week off, had delays because of signal issues near Broadway. Fortunately, they didn't last long - the T updated at 8:01 that the signals were once again working. But the MBTA slow zone map still shows slow zones between Park and JFK/UMass.
Boston Police report arresting four people on gun charges after somebody reported them looking into windows on Beachview Road in East Boston around 2 p.m. on May 7. Read more.
Guster on the porch as crowd slowly parts for ambulance.
Yes, Guster played on somebody's porch on Aberdeen Road in Somerville and a ton of people showed up and one guy maybe downed too many High Noons, and as roving UHub Guster fan Dapeaz shows us, just five songs in, the crowd had to part like some human Red Sea to let the ambulance in. He adds: Read more.
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