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The Sumner of our discontent

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 9:03 pm

Another truck driver managed to wedge his truck inside the Sumner Tunnel this evening.

Wu fires Landmarks Commission director in dispute over projects including White Stadium

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 5:08 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports that after all 16 members of the Boston Landmarks Commission - which has oversight over demolition of any Boston building more than 50 years old - criticized Wu's handling of several major projects in the city, she fired its executive director, Rosanne Foley. Foley was appointed to the post by then Mayor Walsh in 2015.

Man convicted of murdering a teen he didn't know at 2021 Carnival

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 4:58 pm

Javare Sommerville-Adams, 17, up from Providence for the annual Caribbean Carnival, was standing at Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road enjoying the celebration on the morning of Aug. 28, 2021 when a man he didn't know standing near him plunged a knife into his neck. Read more.

Sign of spring: The return of Keytar Bear

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 2:32 pm

Roving UHub photographer Ray Ausrotas spotted Boston's musical bear outside Faneuil Hall yesterday. Sam Adams, as usual, was unimpressed.

Citizen complaint of the day: There's a turkey in Charlestown

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 2:14 pm

Why is it crossing the road?

A concerned citizen filed a 311 report today to alert the city there was a turkey at Nearen Row and Tremont Street in Charlestown.

Man with loaded gun and plenty of spare bullets stopped on Comm. Ave. in Allston to sell some drugs, police say

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 1:53 pm

Boston Police report drug officers who had staked out the inbound side of Commonwealth Avenue just past Harvard because of reports of drugs sales there arrested a man who came all the way in from Fitchburg to sell some drugs to a guy standing there Thursday evening. Read more.

Harvard shuts Harvard Yard for the week

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 11:50 am

Only people with Harvard IDs will be allowed in, in anticipation of Gaza-related protests, the Crimson reports.

WBZ reports students at Emerson and MIT have set up encampments.

Korean monks celebrate return of Buddhist relics that the MFA had owned for 85 years

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 11:15 am

Buddhistdoor Global reports on the reception the items received in Seoul by monks of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism after their return.

Court rules that company has to pay taxes on billboards it runs on MBTA property in Boston

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 11:05 am

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the company that sells space on billboards on MBTA property in Boston has to pay city property taxes on the structures. Read more.

Police kept not bringing charges against Uber driver now accused of nine rapes over four years

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 10:04 am

WBUR examines the case of Alvin Campbell, whom police in Boston and Medford did not charge for rapes even as women came forward, until 2020. Yes, he's the brother of state Attorney General Andrea Campbell, but the station says the pattern is hardly unique to him.

Dark-money group has gotten a lot of press warning about the collapse of Boston's office market

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 9:51 am

CommonWealth Beacon takes a look at the new Boston Policy Institute, whose donors it won't reveal - unlike the older, more staid and currently leaderless Boston Municipal Research Bureau. The group's organizers say they have to keep their donors secret to avoid retribution from City Hall.

Mayhem in the streets of Back Bay as drag racers try fancier digs than their normal Roslindale strip

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 9:34 am

WFXT reports Boston and State Police responded to the residential area around Dartmouth Street early Sunday morning on reports of upwards of 15 drivers engaged in "drag racing and doing burnouts," many laying rubber the wrong way in the normally quiet area. Read more.

Watching Coolidge Corner like a hawk

By adamg - 4/21/24 - 10:02 pm

Michael Burstein was in Coolidge Corner today when he looked up and spotted a hawk, which, from his photo, looks to be a red-tailed hawk. Read more.

Maybe somebody out there is filled with some glee now that the trains are running again to Braintree

By adamg - 4/21/24 - 9:48 pm

There were some signal issues at Braintree tonight that were bad enough the T rustled up some buses to run between there and Quincy Adams, but the T assures us the signals are working again.

Prospective AARP members charged with running a crack and fentanyl ring

By adamg - 4/21/24 - 3:13 pm

Boston Police report arresting five men - aged between 41 and 62 - on drug-distribution charges and seizing more than 2 1/2 pounds of crack and fentanyl in raids on three addresses near Boston Medical Center and Mass and Cass. Read more.

Of all the places to rob downtown, one man chooses the Burger King, police say

By adamg - 4/21/24 - 1:05 pm

A man was arrested yesterday afternoon as he was trying to rob the Burger King, 128 Tremont St. downtown, Boston Police report. Read more.

Fire rips through double triple decker in Somerville

By adamg - 4/20/24 - 10:39 pm

Damien Drella reports what is now a three-alarm fire is burning through all three floors of a six-unit building at 62 Dover St. in Somerville. Photos from the scene.

Both Boston and Cambridge have sent fire crews.

Man wanted in Rhode Island arrested near Riverside T stop after leading cops on a car chase inside the parking lot and then on a foot chase along Green Line tracks, police say

By adamg - 4/20/24 - 10:29 pm

Newton Police report arresting a Providence man they say led them on two chases around the Riverside MBTA station this evening - first in his car and then, after he realizing the police were blocking the parking-lot exit, by getting out and running down the trolley right of way. Read more.

Man already tagged as an armed career criminal was speeding around Dorchester with a gun loaded with 22 bullets, police say

By adamg - 4/20/24 - 10:11 pm

Boston Police report officers who initially stopped a driver for speeding in the area of Washington and Erie streets Friday night wound up arresting him for the gun with the "extended magzine" and the 22 bullets loaded into it they found in his car. Read more.

Protesters block private planes at Hanscom in bid to stop airport expansion

By adamg - 4/20/24 - 9:34 pm

The Lexington Observer reports on the protest by - and arrests of - members of Extinction Rebellion Boston.