A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Gary Zerola, 52, of Salem, of raping an intoxicated, sleeping woman in her Beacon Hill apartment in 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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6/26/24 - 2:49 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the owner of a Watertown restaurant to move into the Linden Street space where a violence-plagued hip-hop club has sat closed for the past two years. Read more.
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6/26/24 - 2:12 pm
A couple of months ago, some T riders asked the T to slap some googly eyes on the front of Green Line trolleys. Today, the T gave the people what they want: Googly eyes on Green Line trolleys - if not all of them, at least five, now roaming around the Green Line, such as this crazy-eyed trolley making the crazy turn at crazy Packards Corner in Allston. Read more.
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6/26/24 - 1:59 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for a three-stall food hall-ette where a Starbucks used to be at 45 Broad St. downtown. Read more.
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6/26/24 - 1:43 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a food-serving license for the city's third upscale Taco Bell, in what used to be a T-Mobile shop at 1084 Boylston St., just around the corner from Mass. Ave. Read more.
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6/26/24 - 12:51 pm
A Dorchester man faces a variety of gun charges - including possession of a machine gun - after he led BPD gang-unit officers and state troopers on a foot chase Tuesday evening, police say. Read more.
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6/26/24 - 11:41 am
John Jamar Cokley, 38, who once worked with at-risk teens and who was arraigned in April on child-rape and related charges, was indicted last week in a 30-count indictment that, among other things, accuses him of raping and trafficking minors and getting them to pose in the nude for photos, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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6/26/24 - 10:42 am
Heat from the fire melted street light and signs. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to the Squealing Pig, 134 Smith St. on Mission Hill, for what turned into a two-alarm fire around midnight.
The department reported no injuries from the fire, which came a little more than 24 hours after the Jacob Wirth building on Stuart Street burned in a four-alarm fire.
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6/26/24 - 9:52 am
Patrick Maguire reports a bumper crop of hydrangea bushes across Boston this summer. "The most vibrant color in recent years," he writes.
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6/26/24 - 9:45 am
Milk Street Cafe, one of downtown Boston's few kosher options, last week filed for Chap. 11 bankruptcy protection, listing a bank that gave it a federally backed loan to help it survive the pandemic and its landlord as its two largest creditors. Read more.
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6/25/24 - 1:32 pm
Rendering by RODE Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a land owner's plans to replace a Richdale and a parking lot on its land at 1420 Dorchester Ave., near Adams Street in Dorchester, with a five-story, 46-unit apartment building. Read more.
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6/25/24 - 12:52 pm
Rendering by Utile, showing institute buildings in rear, behind garden entranceway.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for a three-story Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning on what are now two city-owned vacant lots at 30 Westville St. in Dorchester. Read more.
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6/25/24 - 9:50 am
City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) used to rule out running for mayor, but now? He's not so sure, Jon Keller reports. Read more.
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6/25/24 - 9:18 am
Firefighters attack Jacob Wirth fire. Photo by Smith.
Boston firefighters responded to the Jacob Wirth building, 37 Stuart St., around 11 p.m. on Monday for what turned into a four-alarm fire extending across all three floors. Read more.
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6/24/24 - 10:33 pm
A man stabbed a woman in the arm with a screwdriver at the Mobil station at Meridian and Condor streets in East Boston around 9:35 p.m. Read more.
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6/24/24 - 1:38 pm
Mayor Wu said today that Boston's office-to-residential pilot project - in which the city offers a long-term tax break for apartment conversions - will mean more than 400 new apartments in downtown Boston and nearby neighborhoods. Read more.
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6/24/24 - 1:06 pm
Mary Ellen spotted something a little different the other day on one of her walks around Millennium Park in West Roxbury: A slime mold. Read more.
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6/24/24 - 9:38 am
Where the porch used to be. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports seven people were injured - three seriously enough to require hospitalization - when a porch collapsed at 527 Dudley St. in Roxbury Saturday night.
The department reports a 4x10 section of the third-floor porch gave way around 10:30 p.m., sending people on the porch 12 feet down to the second floor, part of the Fernandez Brothers liquor store.
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