NBC Boston reports the body was found around 3:30 a.m. in the garage at the Marriott Copley Place. Some guests evacuated after an alarm sounded in the hotel.
By adamg -
8/2/21 - 8:47 am
Live Boston reports the 14-year-old was shot around 11:15 a.m. on Friday on Alpha Road in Dorchester. When police arrived, they found multiple spent shells and one car with fresh bullet damage, but no victim. About an hour later, however, she showed up at Carney Hospital.
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8/1/21 - 9:16 pm
By adamg -
8/1/21 - 8:59 pm
With the delta variant ascendant, Northeastern University announced today that, in addition to students, faculty and staff will also have to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination by Sept. 8.
By adamg -
8/1/21 - 1:12 pm
Early Allston Xmas display.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about these derelict couches on Coolidge Road in Allston.
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The train from West Gloucester was wicked late; it lost power and riders just had to wait - and wait
People trying to get into Boston from West Gloucester on commuter rail this morning had an extra 2 1/2 hours added to their trip when their train came down with what the T described as "a mechanical issue" somewhere between Chelsea and North Station. Read more.
By adamg -
8/1/21 - 10:45 am
Cambridge Police report gunfire at Windsor and Market streets shortly after 2:05 a.m. Read more.
By adamg -
7/31/21 - 11:17 pm
At first, Jamaica Pond seems fine - you come down the slope from Perkins Street and there's a swan slowly moving across the water.
But then you walk over towards the Jamaicaway/Pond Street side and you see none of the sailboats have sails: Read more.
By adamg -
7/31/21 - 12:16 pm
The National Transportation Safety Board announced this morning it "is investigating the July 30, 2021, collision of two Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) light rail trains on MBTA's Green Line near Boston, Massachusetts."
Prediction: The NTSB will issue a report that concludes the MBTA needs to equip the Green Line with a "positive train control system," just like it does after every Green Line collision.
By adamg -
7/31/21 - 12:03 pm
Grendel's Den in Harvard Square is now requiring proof of Covid-19 vaccination - and a mask - to dine inside. Read more.
By adamg -
7/31/21 - 11:53 am
A student at UMass Boston and one at UMass Lowell yesterday sued over their schools' requirements they get vaccinated against Covid-19 or be barred from campus this fall, saying the requirement violates their constitutional rights and that it's just not fair that they have to get what they consider risky shots when professors don't, especially since, they claim, masks and social distancing are just as good as shots. Read more.
By adamg -
7/30/21 - 9:17 pm
Green Line crashes in 2008 and 2009 - one fatal - slowly spurred the MBTA to hire contractors to equip the nation's oldest subway line with a system that would automatically brake trolleys whose operators run red lights or seem about to smash into another trolley and who disregard audible alarms to stop. Read more.
By adamg -
7/30/21 - 6:53 pm
Rear of the train that was hit. Photo by Greg Moseley.
An outbound Green Line trolley crashed into the back of another outbound trolley on Commonwealth Avenue just past Agganis Arena shortly after 6 p.m. Read more.
By adamg -
7/30/21 - 3:27 pm
A Boston Police Department auto mechanic agreed to plead guilty today to wire fraud for ordering Honda and Acura parts through BPD accounts, then reselling them to private mechanics. Read more.
By adamg -
7/30/21 - 2:45 pm
Citizen.Coping spotted the aftermath of a crash on one of the Jamaicaway's more winding sections around 2:30 p.m. She reports nobody appeared seriously injured.
From the other side: Read more.
By adamg -
7/30/21 - 2:16 pm
With delta breakthrough cases on the rise, the state today released updated Covid-19 guidance that calls for anybody who might be at high risk for complication - or who lives or works with somebody who is - to start wearing masks in stores and other indoor places again. Read more.
By adamg -
7/30/21 - 1:28 pm
Bird's-eye rendering by Stantec.
Two developers and the owner of an existing Nubian Square business this week filed detailed plans with the BPDA for a complex on what is now a parking lot and vacant land along Washington Street between Palmer and Eustis streets for what they say help revive Nubian Square as a cultural and dining destination and begin turning it into a new life-sciences center, in buildings designed to harken back to the Nubian societies along the Nile. Read more.
By adamg -
7/30/21 - 10:23 am
Newbury Street will be shut to cars between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Aug. 15, 22 and 29, BTD announced today.
The return of Open Newbury Street will be between Berkeley Street and Massachusetts Avenue those days.
By adamg -
7/30/21 - 9:31 am
For decades now, one of the ways you could tell an old Rozzie rat - or even somebody who used to take the Orange Line el back in the '70s and '80s - was if they smiled when you said "Vinny Criss has no teeth." Read more.
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