Louijeune calling for a hearing and soon.
Both Secretary of State William Galvin and the Boston City Council decided today to investigate how precincts across the city ran out of ballots and numerous other ways voters had obstacles placed in the way of casting their ballots, from one polling place not having any working lights to voters with disabilities being refused access to handicap parking spaces at another. Read more.
Drew Starr asks:
Where's a good spot within say half an hour's drive (give or take) from the Pru where I can just stare into nature for awhile. Somewhere green with running water that's accessible enough with a mildly janky ankle?
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed a man's conviction on a count of illegal possession of a firearm, because the stun gun police found in his trunk looks nothing like a gun as currently defined by state law. Read more.
A judge today agreed to let the Department of Correction force a feeding tube up the nose and then down the throat of a convicted 70-year-old murderer on a hunger strike, but said he will give the inmate a chance to explain why he should be allowed to continue refusing all but small sips of water at a hearing next week. Read more.
WCVB is tracking the numbers for the five statewide ballot questions.
The Boston Election Department has numbers for Boston-specific numbers for both ballot questions and elected offices.
A man was shot in the chest on Michigan Avenue near Old Road in Dorchester shortly before 8:05 p.m. Read more.
Once people in the line outside the Bates got in, they got to stand in another line. Photo by Jessica Burko.
Update: At 7:36 p.m., the Boston Election Department reported that several precincts across the city had run out of ballots. Department said anybody in line at 8 would be allowed to vote.
Around 5:10 p.m., voting came to a halt at ward 18, precinct 10 at the Bates School in Roslindale: Poll workers had run out of ballots to give to voters. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting one of two men they say ran from officers investigating reports of men with guns behind the Joseph Lee K-8 School on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester after the start of the school day Monday morning. Read more.
Boston College's Burns Library posted this photo of US Rep. Tip O'Neill voting in Cambridge in 1955.
The family of Mario Evans, 16, reports he died after his home at 1049 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park caught fire early on Oct. 29.
His cousin, Sabrina Beauzile, writes: Read more.
The MBTA reports it's finally cleared the last of the seemingly perpetual slow zones on the Orange Line this weekend, letting riders feel the full oomph of an speed-limit reaching trains for the first time since 2010, ending the days when wood-paneled Orange Line trains always lost races to snails and turtles at Forest Hills and between Tufts and Back Bay. Read more.
A man and a woman face charges in unrelated shoplifting incidents in which both targeted Lululemon outlets in the Back Bay. Read more.
A man was stabbed in the chest outside Sammy's Pizza and Wine Basket & Spirits on Commonwealth Avenue at Warren Street shortly after 10 p.m. Read more.
A person was stabbed in the throat in a field on the upper-busway side of the Forest Hills T station, where Washington Street crosses the Arborway to become South Street, around 4:20 p.m. Read more.
Photo by a roving UHub photographer
The drivers of an SUV and a car collided shortly before 5:45 p.m. at Washington Street and Wellesmere Road in Roslindale, flipping the SUV and sending the car into a tree. Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to 294 Neponset Valley Parkway in Hyde Park shortly before 4 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
The Boston Fire Department reports smoke was pouring from the house when firefighters arrived.
Black void at the bottom is really a hollowed out trunk. See it larger.
The old leaning tree on the Pond Street side of Jamaica Pond didn't seem like it would make it this year - the crack in its trunk widened into a mini-cavern with enough space to support several families of squirrels and it tipped even more down toward the water, enough so that you could no longer use its outer branches to gauge just full the pond was. Read more.
The Justice Department is out with list of 86 cities across the country where it will be keep a watch for "compliance with federal voting rights laws," including Everett, Malden, Methuen, Quincy and Salem (as well as Fitchburg, Leominster and Lowell). Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court concluded today a criminal attorney inappropriately made a sexist fool of himself in the Chelsea District Court lockup and needs to go through his career with a formal reprimand on his record. Read more.
A motorcyclist and the driver of another vehicle collided at Hyde Park Avenue and West Street shortly before 3:45 a.m. The motorcyclist was declared dead at the scene.
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