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.
The State House News Service reports on a protest yesterday at what's become the White Stadium demolition project in Franklin Park.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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."
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. "
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.
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.
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.
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.
Around 3:30 a.m., somebody fired as many as a dozen rounds along Marcella Street in Roxbury between Highland and Centre streets - but with shell casings also found on the other side of Centre on New Heath Street and on Centre up past New Heath. Read more.
A man who wouldn't take no for an answer from a woman he wanted to dance with at the Liberty Diner on Mass. Ave. last August ended up pulling out a black-handled knife and stabbing the woman's husband in the chest - and slicing open that man's brother's face from ear to chin, police told the Boston Licensing Board at a hearing today. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 51 Beech Glen St. in Roxbury around 12:15 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
The department reports no injuries but says the fire displaced one person and one dog in the one occupied unit in the building. The other two units were undergoing renovation, the department says.
The Boston LOL spotted this small tree decorated with a single ornament in Franklin Park.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say pulled a knife on an employee at the Price Rite at the Washington Park Mall, MLK Boulevard and Warren Street in Roxbury, around 8:05 a.m. on Dec. 11. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting the woman they say fatally stabbed Celia Simmons in Ramsay Park in Roxbury on Nov. 16. Read more.
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