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Rhode Island man admits threatening to dismember a Harvard professor and eat and rape his remains for speaking for abortion rights and against Trump

By adamg - 8/22/19 - 7:44 pm

Federal prosecutors will recommend a 21-month prison sentence for Matthew Haviland, 29, of North Kingstown, who admitted today he sent numerous threatening messages to both a Harvard professor and a department there in which he graphically described how he would kill the professor for writing articles in favor of abortion rights and against President Trump and would bomb the school. Read more.

The bad news is an eight-foot python is slithering around Newton; the good news is he was recently fed

By adamg - 8/22/19 - 4:30 pm

Ted Hess-Mahan reports:

There is an 8 foot long Burmese Python loose in the Jewett St. area in #NewtonMA

Read more.

Drum-beating protesters jam meeting on Harriet Tubman House demolition proposal

By adamg - 8/22/19 - 1:48 pm

The Boston Guardian reports on a meeting this week about the proposal by a developer to buy the Harriet Tubman House in the South End and build condos on the site. The Boston Sun has more.

Cambridge YMCA fitness class ends with man stabbed in the back

By adamg - 8/22/19 - 10:20 am

WBZ reports a man pulled out a jack knife and stabbed an acquaintance in a fight during a fitness class at the Y on Wednesday evening.

Man hit and killed by commuter-rail train; second such death this week

By adamg - 8/22/19 - 10:00 am

Transit Police report a man on the Rockport Line tracks in Gloucester was hit and killed by a train around 6:20 a.m. Foul play is not suspected, police say.

On Monday, another man was hit and killed by a Fitchburg Line train.

New Balance puts foot down; sues rival over alleged trademark, patent violations

By adamg - 8/22/19 - 9:42 am
Battle of the sneaker Ns

From the New Balance competing

New Balance of Brighton charges Nautica of New York with trying to ride its shoelaces to extra sales by copying its sneaker design and using a big capital N to brand its wares, just like New Balance. Read more.

Tree branch messed up Riverside commute, when it fell, was quite a beaut

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 6:27 pm

Eitan Hersh was among the teeming masses forced off a Riverside Line train after a large tree branch fell in front of it between Fenway and Longwood: Read more.

The shit male candidates don't have to deal with

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 6:12 pm

Hélène Vincent is running for the District 8 (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill) city-council seat that Josh Zakim is giving up. Last night, she posted a photo of a stairway in an apartment or condo building and, in a series of tweets, reported: Read more.

Car flips in Jamaica Plain

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 6:04 pm
Flipped car in Jamaica Plain

Donrick Pond came upon this sideways car on Bynner Street shortly after 4 p.m.

He reports the driver explained how her car ended up like that: Read more.

Dump truck plunges through top of Quincy parking garage

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 2:58 pm
Dump truck falls through Quincy garage

Quincy Police report the top of the garage at 1261 Furnace Brook Parkway proved unequal to the task of supporting a dump truck driven up there today. No injuries, at least, police say. More photos.

Cafe in South Boston to be replaced by another one with a pun name

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 2:41 pm

Eileen Murphy reports that the Cranberry Cafe on East Broadway closed for good yesterday and will be replaced by a new place called Deja Brew.

Ladies in waiting in old Boston

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 10:45 am
Ladies waiting for something, but what?

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.

Man sought for Copley Square bank robbery

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 10:19 am
Copley Square bank-robbery suspect

The FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force has released photos of the guy it says held up the TD Bank branch at 535 Boylston St. around 12:50 p.m. on Sunday.

If he looks familiar, contact the task force at 857-386-2000.

Globe lobs salvo at GateHouse with beefed up Newton news written by BU journalism students

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 9:19 am

The Globe announced today it's expanding Newton coverage with the help of a class of Boston University journalism students, who will give the Garden City the kind of coverage it may no longer get from its longtime GateHouse-owned newspaper. Read more.

Imagine if Sal DiMasi had also had an affair funded by union money: That's the case the feds are making against former State Police union head

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 8:56 am

Federal officials have charged the retired president of the State Police union of embezzling union funds to pay for flowers, meals and trips for a lover - and with taking kickbacks from a Beacon Hill lobbyist who helped him try to get state contracts for software and gun companies. Read more.

Green Line schedule knocked askew after some of those signals blew

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 8:53 am

The MBTA is reporting delays of up to ten minutes due to signal issues near North Station.

Y'know, Boston doesn't have nearly enough fast-food chains named after old cowboy actors

By adamg - 8/20/19 - 8:57 pm
Roy Rogers stuff in Boston

Drew Starr reports finding a stack of food containers, a couple of biscuits and some sort of glop in a plastic container piled high at Massachusetts and Huntington avenues tonight. Read more.

Steam heated

By adamg - 8/20/19 - 4:10 pm
Message from Steam about how they had to tax some guy

As you may recall, this past weekend was officially a tax-free weekend in Massachusetts. So Kilonum was surprised when he paid for and downloaded a game on the Steam game platform and got charged Massachusetts sales tax - surprised enough that he wrote the company. And the company wrote back with a list of products for which products still had to have tax levied on them. Read more.

Skunked in Cambridge

By adamg - 8/20/19 - 4:01 pm

City-council candidates on making roads safer for pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists

By adamg - 8/20/19 - 12:22 pm

The Massachusetts Vision Zero Coalition has posted answers to questions about road safety - for both at-large candidates and candidates in specific districts in the Sept. 24 preliminaries.