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By adamg - 6/9/24 - 1:20 pm

Boston Police report arresting an East Boston man on gun and drug charges after pulling him over on St. Andrew Road shortly after 3:10 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 6/8/24 - 10:54 am
Photos of suspects via BPD, one holding an orange

Surveillance photos of suspects, one holding an orange, via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for two men for a holdup outside the Check Place, 230 Meridian St. in East Boston around 9:30 a.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 6/5/24 - 12:02 pm

The owner of the Burger King at 944 Bennington St. in East Boston filed a request to stay open 24 hours a day, but at a hearing today acknowledged he's not quite ready to pull the trigger on City that Never Sleeps-style operations. Read more.

By adamg - 5/25/24 - 10:11 am
Car on fire inside the Ted Williams Tunnel

Around 9:30 a.m., a car erupted into flames inside the eastbound Ted Williams Tunnel in South Boston, less than a day after a two-alarm, three-car conflagration in the tunnel leading from the northbound Tip O'Neill Tunnel to the Ted Williams. Read more.

By adamg - 5/24/24 - 9:27 am

The MBTA has gone full bustitution between Maverick and Suffolk Downs because of a wire problem at Airport, the nature of which they don't specify, but that's where the trains put up their connectors for those wires.

By adamg - 5/22/24 - 10:00 am
Rendering of proposed 944 Saratoga St.

Rendering by Embarc.

A developer has filed plans with the BPDA for a five-story, 24-unit condo building on what is now a vacant lot at 944 Saratoga St., next to Noyes Playground and to another condo building that went up a few years ago. Read more.

By adamg - 5/21/24 - 12:37 pm

Last Thursday night, Boston Police had to respond to two near simultaneous gunfire attacks in East Boston, one at Brandywyne Village, the other on Liverpool Street near Maverick Street. Read more.

By adamg - 5/17/24 - 12:08 pm

TransitMatters reports that while, yes, Blue Line trains now trundle along in less without slow zones, the peak-times trip between Wonderland and Bowdoin still takes longer on average than in February, 2023, before the T announced zillions of slow zones everywhere.

TransitMatters says that's because while the tracks are now in good shape, the Blue Line is still suffering "due to a switch issue, a signal issue, or a more significant ops issue altogether."

By adamg - 5/14/24 - 1:10 pm

A London resident was sent to the Suffolk County jail yesterday after she couldn't make the $1,500 bail set at her arraignment for trafficking between 50 and 100 pounds of marijuana, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 5/9/24 - 2:46 pm

Ten people were arrested in drug raids on Tuesday that centered on 44 Border St. in the Maverick Landing development in East Boston, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 5/8/24 - 10:02 am

Bright and early, well, early at any rate on this rainy day, like 5:21 a.m., the MBTA announced delays on the Blue Line due to signal problems near Orient Heights. Fortunately, the T updated at 5:46 a.m. that the problem had been fixed.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 9:35 am
School bus going the wrong way down Liverpool Street

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about a school-bus driver headed the wrong way down the one-way section of Liverpool Street in East Boston this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 11:34 pm

An East Boston Municipal Court judge today ordered Jackie Lee Edelstein, 84, held in the Suffolk County jail pending a dangerousness hearing on Wednesday, following his arrest on charges he stabbed a neighbor in the neck at the Brandywyne apartment complex in East Boston Friday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 3:41 pm

State Police report a Salem woman this morning led police from the North Shore into Boston on a wild chase full of crashed cars and gates - at the Coast Guard base in the North End and at Fenway Park, both of which police say she rammed into with her 2024 Honda Accord. Read more.

By adamg - 5/5/24 - 1:27 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man, 84, for stabbing a woman in the neck on Brandywyne Drive in East Boston around 3 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 5/3/24 - 5:11 pm

A woman was stabbed at 67 Brandywyne Dr. around 3 p.m. She was able to get herself to a nearby Branydwyne Village office to seek help. About ten minutes later, a possible suspect was detained nearby. The homicide unit was called in just in case due to the severity of the victim's injuries.

By adamg - 5/3/24 - 4:02 pm

Around 12:50 a.m. on Thursday, a resident of Bayswater Street in East Boston called 911 to ask if there was anybody who could say "happy birthday" to him. Read more.

By adamg - 5/1/24 - 12:53 pm

The MBTA has scheduled a press conference at Orient Heights at 3:45 p.m. to go over "the completion of critical track work" on the Blue Line. T officials might want to find another way to get there than the Blue Line itself, because at 12:46 p.m, it reported delays of up to 20 minutes due to a Blue Line that kicked the bucket at Aquarium.

By adamg - 5/1/24 - 12:15 pm
Workers wait for signal to work on signals at Wood Island

Roving UHub photographer captured workers waiting for a signal to work on signal at Wood Island this morning.

A couple hours after the MBTA told an inquiring rider that, yes, it has removed all the slow zones on the Blue Line, it reported delays on the Blue Line due to some sort of signal problem near Wood Island.

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