Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say had a gun loaded with 14 bullets outside the McDonald's at 301 Warren St. in Roxbury yesterday afternoon - but add that his pal, who ditched his own gun loaded with 7 rounds, managed to flee. Read more.
By adamg - 2/25/25 - 1:18 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected plans for what would have been Boston's first non-hospital birthing center on Winthrop Street in Roxbury after nearby residents and the district city councilor said the new building was the wrong idea for a parcel on a historic residential street. Read more.
By adamg - 2/24/25 - 1:37 pm
A Brookline real-estate firm has filed plans to embiggen an existing records warehouse at 134 Hampden St. in Newmarket Square to create a new self-storage facility - including a set-aside area specifically for self storage of wine. Read more.
By adamg - 2/24/25 - 11:31 am
Boston Police report arresting a man they say used a screwdriver to force another man to hand over a bottle of pills and money on Camden Street in the South End Saturday morning.
By adamg - 2/24/25 - 10:52 am
Boston Police report finding three people they suspect broke into an apartment at 66 Dabney St. in Roxbury's Warren Gardens Sunday night. Two were immediately charged with the break in; the third was taken to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the back, police say. Read more.
By adamg - 2/22/25 - 11:55 am
Boston Police report officers who initially stopped a driver they watched speed through two red lights in a car with excessive tint early Friday arrested him for the the two bags of crack and roughly $24,000 in stolen checks they say he had in the car. Read more.
By adamg - 2/20/25 - 3:18 pm
Keon Leary, 45, was sentenced to 9 to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty to various drug and gun charges the day he was set to go on trial, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 2/20/25 - 2:30 pm
The State House News Service reports on a protest yesterday at what's become the White Stadium demolition project in Franklin Park.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 9:51 pm
Two people were shot on Dudley Street, one at Dudley and Mt. Pleasant Avenue, the other outside 225 Dudley Street, closer to Greenville Street, around 8:40 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 2/16/25 - 10:18 am
A group of professors and students affiliated with Harvard Medical School write that it's all well and good for a consortium that includes Harvard and MIT to develop wind and solar farms in Texas and North Dakota, but what about the carbon-belching MATEP plant right in the middle of all those Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research centers in the Longwood Medical Area?
By adamg - 2/13/25 - 11:07 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man on charges he drove into two pedestrians, killing one, on Washington Street between Northampton and Lenox streets on the night of Jan. 18 and then drove off. Read more.
By adamg - 2/7/25 - 9:49 am
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Aizavier Roache, 31, to 4 3/4 years in prison for selling at least six guns he'd obtained from a pal who bought them at gun shops in South Carolina. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 11:12 am
Update: Proposal rejected.
The Zoning Board of Appeal voted today to hold off any vote for at least three weeks on a proposed building that would house a birthing center and offices for five other non-profit groups at 14 Winthrop St. in Roxbury, so that organizers can hold more meetings with neighbors and a Roxbury community group to try to address neighbor concerns. Read more.
By adamg - 2/2/25 - 8:29 pm
The Huntington News reports on e-mail from the Northeastern sociology and anthropology department that urges readers not to interact with any ICE agents, but instead send them to the school's legal office: "Even if they say they have a warrant, do not assume the warrant is valid."
By adamg - 1/29/25 - 12:16 pm
The Huntington News reports Northeastern University is going down without a fight: It's "replaced or dismantled nearly all of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, messaging and websites. "
By adamg - 1/20/25 - 12:03 pm
Police officers swarmed the parking lot of the South End Whole Foods on Harrison Avenue around 9:50 a.m. where they found a dark blue Mercedes SUV with front-end damage and missing its right-side mirror - matching the description of the SUV whose driver hit two women on Washington Street near Lenox Street in Roxbury Saturday, killing one of them and then speeding off. Read more.
By adamg - 1/18/25 - 11:49 pm
Update: Suspect arrested.
Police are looking for a dark SUV whose driver they say hit two pedestrians on Washington Street between Northampton and Lenox streets, then drove away, around 8:30 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/25 - 10:37 pm
The Huntington News reports on today's sentencing in federal court of Jason Duhaime, convicted of making up a story about an exploding bomb that left part of the campus sealed off in 2022.
By adamg - 1/12/25 - 11:59 am
Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man they say was asleep behind the wheel of a car on Warren Street near Whiting Street shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Friday - but not for excessive tiredness. Read more.
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