Travel New England had a front-row seat for a crash on American Legion Highway at 6:30 this morning that we'd love to hear the excuse for: Read more.
By adamg -
7/10/20 - 7:52 pm
Aegon Targaryen VI spotted this rainbow this afternoon:
Rainbow over back bay, ending over the hatchshell. Brb, getting that gold.
By adamg -
7/10/20 - 2:49 pm
President Trump told reporters today he wouldn't be flying to Portsmouth for a planned rally tomorrow because of "the big storm," the one that the National Weather Service said early this morning would no longer get anywhere near Portsmouth. Read more.
By adamg -
7/10/20 - 2:03 pm
A federal judge today ordered Michael Taylor and his son, Peter Maxwell Taylor, held at the Norfolk County jail as they await extradition hearings on a request from Japan to have them shipped there to face trial on charges they helped smuggle Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn out of the country in a large black box so he could avoid his own trial for alleged financial crimes. Read more.
By adamg -
7/10/20 - 12:43 pm
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen reports the great blue herons have discovered the water around Millennium Park makes for some good fishing.
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By adamg -
7/10/20 - 11:27 am
The Globe's announced it's hired Kimberly Atkins, currently of WBUR and formerly of the Herald, for its editorial board. Read more.
By adamg -
7/10/20 - 10:34 am
By adamg -
7/10/20 - 10:06 am
The Boston Housing Authority announced this morning it's suspending "non-essential" evictions though the end of the year due to Covid-19 concerns. Read more.
By adamg -
7/10/20 - 9:40 am
A Somerville man police say was shooting off fireworks on the Cambridge Street bridge around 4 p.m. yesterday now faces drug and weapons charges after Transit Police officers nabbed him at the neighboring T station, two Roman candles "protruding from his person." Read more.
By adamg -
7/10/20 - 12:18 am
Fay at 9:50 p.m. Source.
Friday morning update: Fay's path has shifted enough that the NWS has taken down its flash-flood watch for eastern Mass.
The National Weather Service has posted a flash flood watch for the entire state for Friday afternoon through Saturday as tropical storm Fay approaches: Read more.
By adamg -
7/9/20 - 11:47 pm
Good news tonight from the best Centre Street pub with a painting of an old Arborway trolley with a working headlight on the door:
TALK OF OUR DEMISE HAS BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED .DUE TO MY INCREDIBLE STAFF WE WILL BE BACK AROUND AUGUST 1ST..HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL AGAIN SOON ...STAY SAFE
By adamg -
7/9/20 - 10:01 pm
Matt Frank walked along Mill Creek and Chelsea Creek at sunset this evening.
By adamg -
7/9/20 - 9:42 pm
Around 9:10 p.m. The victims got themselves to two local emergency rooms. Numerous cars and at least one house on Bowdoin Street also hit.
By adamg -
7/9/20 - 8:56 pm
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen spotted a pair of geese and what appears to be a pair of deer, but which she reports is actually a trio, but a fawn is hidden in the grass by the Charles River.
By adamg -
7/9/20 - 5:23 pm
Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller announced this afternoon that a 55-year-old Needham man was charged with operating to endanger and failure to use care when starting a motor vehicle for an incident on Tuesday in which, after shouting at Black Lives Matter demonstrators at City Hall, he got in his pickup and accelerated away, narrowly missing several of the teens.
By adamg -
7/9/20 - 4:47 pm
Although Gov. Baker gave the go-ahead for movie theaters to begin re-opening this week (next week in Boston and Somerville), operators of the Somerville Theatre and the Capitol Theatre in Arlington say they will remain closed. Read more.
By adamg -
7/9/20 - 4:26 pm
Northeastern University says it hopes to take over the entire Midtown Hotel and to lease floors in the Westin Copley Place to serve as dorms after eliminating on-campus triples and similar spaces and setting aside 500 campus rooms to quarantine any students who contract Covid-19. Read more.
By adamg -
7/9/20 - 12:29 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports one side of a platform being used by window washers at 230 Harrison Ave. in Chinatown gave way shortly before 11 a.m. gave way, leaving two workers hanging for dear life 12 stories up until firefighters arrived to get them down safely.
By adamg -
7/9/20 - 12:22 pm
A manager at the Natick Soldier Systems Center and his girlfriend/underling have been indicted on charges they defrauded the government in a scheme to pay her salary and for the hotel rooms she never actually stayed in while allegedly on official business with him, often in Orlando, FL. Read more.
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