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By adamg -
5/6/24 - 12:18 pm
The Tech reports on the aftermath of an exploding manhole around 1 this morning.
By adamg -
5/6/24 - 11:52 am
State Police report a Cambridge man heading north in the O'Neill Tunnel lost control of his Jeep Compass, crashed into a wall and died after the Jeep flipped onto the passenger side, shortly after midnight on Saturday.
State Police identify the driver as Robert Smith, 59, and say he was not wearing his seat belt. The crash remains under investigation, State Police say.
By adamg -
5/6/24 - 11:30 am
A perplexed citizen files a 311 report about some street signs at Dudley and Warren streets in Roxbury: Read more.
By adamg -
5/6/24 - 10:45 am
The annual Big Day Boston bird watch in Boston Proper on Saturday ended with 66 species of birds spotted from the Public Garden to Boston Harbor, including one bald eagle competing with Hitchcockian numbers of gulls to gulp down some herring.
By adamg -
5/6/24 - 10:33 am
Boston Police report two officers patrolling in their cruiser near Warren Gardens heard "several loud bangs," then spotted a man on Dabney Street holding an item in the air with smoke coming from the end, shortly after midnight on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg -
5/6/24 - 10:19 am
Update: Meet Rich Shertenlieb.
Boston Radio Watch reports the on-air demise of Heather Ford, Pete McKenzie and Kenny Young. WZLX will supposedly be announcing replacements later today.
By adamg -
5/6/24 - 10:12 am
State House News Service reports the owner of St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton and Carney Hospital in Dorchester has filed for Chap. 11 bankruptcy, which is the kind where they get to keep operating as they try to shake off most of their debts and emerge all shiny and new and healthy so they can dump more money into the pockets of the sort of avaricious vulture capitalists that got them into trouble in the first place. Oh, dear, was that going too far?
By adamg -
5/6/24 - 9:51 am
A Suffolk Superior Court judge last week concluded Patrick Mendoza, charged with trying to plug somebody on Hanover Street, was no longer an immediate threat to society and so could be released from jail to modified home release while awaiting trial - he is allowed to leave home for work or for medical or legal appointments. Read more.
By adamg -
5/5/24 - 5:21 pm
Police officers responding to 911 calls about gunfire and shouting found a man shot in the leg at 226 North St. in the North End around 2:55 a.m. Injuries were not considered life threatening.
Two cars were also hit by gunfire.
By adamg -
5/5/24 - 2:49 pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 report yesterday about all the dead fish on the rocks by the North Washington Street bridge and the Eliot School in the North End. Read more.
By adamg -
5/5/24 - 1:27 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man, 84, for stabbing a woman in the neck on Brandywyne Drive in East Boston around 3 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
By adamg -
5/4/24 - 10:16 pm
Mack Garvey reports Tobie the Turkey seems to have made a home along Tremont Street in Charlestown, near the Tobin Bridge. Read more.
By adamg -
5/4/24 - 1:03 pm
The MBTA reports that signal issues at Government Center mean Green B and C trains are currently making Park Street the end of the line.
By adamg -
5/4/24 - 11:54 am
Photo of seized gun and bullets by BPD.
Boston Police report a detail cop at Tremont and Northampton streets who went to investigate when he heard two teens arguing arrested one for the gun loaded with two bullets police say he had in his hoodie pocket. Read more.
By adamg -
5/4/24 - 11:14 am
The other morning, Mary Ellen spotted this buck at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Read more.
By adamg -
5/4/24 - 11:05 am
Neal Gaffey spotted this car with a Hawaii plate on Dedham Street in the South End the other day.
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