Update, 4:45 p.m. A test Red Line train just went through Savin Hill with no problems following repairs to the third rail and the fence.
A driver somehow managed to slam his SUV onto the outbound Red Line tracks from the parking lot at Savin Hill station early around 12:30 p.m., damaging part of the third rail and causing the shutdown of the line between JFK/UMass and Ashmont, as Just Some Dude shows us. Read more.
GBH takes an in-depth look at the aftermath of a six-alarm fire at 430 Meredian St. in East Boston that killed two - an adult right away and a 10-year-old girl afterwards. Read more.
And he's off!
If you spot Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni on the T today, say hi, but understand if he doesn't have time to chat: He's on a race to see if he can set a record for the fastest time ever for visiting all T subway stops in one day. Read more.
At 1:13 a.m., HoofbeatsEqualZebra, who lives in Readville, reported that an engineer on a commuter-rail or CSX diesel in one of the Readville train yards had blared his air horn more than 60 times. Yes, of course he counted, what else are you going to do at 1:13 in the morning with an air horn blasting through your house? Read more.
Swirrlygrrl watched the sun go down this evening over Spot Pond in Stoneham.
A man who was driving down Columbia Road was shot at Columbia Road and Stanwood Street around 4 p.m. Read more.
WCVB reports on the mistrial declared today in the second-degree murder case of Karen Read, charged with ramming her then boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in a Canton snowbank. The Norfolk County DA's office said it would re-try Read, whose attorneys say O'Keefe died at the hands of his fellow officers.
Lawyers for a 16-year-old charged with running down and killing a man standing by the side of the road in Turkey and federal prosecutors have been busy wrangling over whether he should be detained without bail - in a juvie center run by the state of Connecticut - as he and his mother await deportation hearings that could end with him being sent back to Turkey to stand trial. Read more.
Photos via BPD.
A possible dispute over a parking spot on Hutchings Street in Roxbury Saturday afternoon ended when one of the combatants came after the other with a baseball bat, Boston Police say. Read more.
A Belarusian native was arrested yesterday on charges he illegally arranged the shipping of a $688,000 mass spectrometer made by ThermoFisher Scientific of Waltham to Russia despite federal regulations aimed at cutting off Russia's supply of advanced Western technology following its invasion of Ukraine. Read more.
Turtle in the grass, alas
A concerned citizen files a 311 request that somebody come rescue the turtle that is now shelling around where it doesn't belong, in the Public Garden lagoon: Read more.
A Michigan woman who says she still suffers severe pain from being tossed to the commuter-rail platform at Back Bay by an escalator that suddenly went into reverse in 2021 last week filed the latest suit against the MBTA and Kone, Inc. over the disaster. Read more.
After watching the sunset from East Boston yesterday, Matt Frank was up early to catch the sunrise with a feline friend at Revere Beach this morning.
Matt Frank reports that people flocked to the East Boston waterfront this evening to take in the sunset over downtown.
A man was shot in the leg at 4 Dalessio Ct., off Orton Marotta Way in South Boston, around 9:45 p.m. Shell casings recovered.
Gilbert's, the hard-to-spot liquor store at the rotary across Washington Street from the Dedham Bob's that closed pretty much as soon as the mega Total Wine was announced down the street, is getting replaced by a take-out place that specializes in grilled-cheese sandwiches with stuff on top of the cheese. Read more.
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Heath Street Gang associate to 22 months in prison after he admitted that, yes, he was the guy housing police officers found with saleable amounts of cocaine on him in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain last September, even though he wasn't supposed to be anywhere near the complex because of his earlier convictions on gun charges. Read more
Boston Police report a man crashed into the house at 24 Fifield St. in Dorchester around 8:30 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
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