A Springfield man who orchestrated a ring of catalytic-converter thieves that operated across two states - including in Newton, Waltham and Needham - was sentenced this week to ten years in federal prison, the US Attorney's office reports, adding the arrests of ring members last year has meant a significant decrease in catalytic-converter thefts. Read more.
Very conceptual, preliminary rendering of a drone's eye view above Rte. 9 eastbound by Finegold Alexander Architects.
City Realty last week unwrapped some of its ideas for the 5-acre office complex on Rte. 9 in Brookline at the Newton line it now owns: Replacing it completely with a new complex featuring a 20-story hotel/condo tower at the city line along with two shorter buildings with apartments, retail space and medical offices, all clustered around a "town square" the length of two football fields with a stream-like "water feature" that would encourage visitors to sit and enjoy themselves. Read more.
Alleged walk-up deposit at a drive-thru ATM in Needham by gang member Brandon Baez (from affidavit).
Last month, the US Attorney's office announced roundups of alleged members of the H Block and Mission Hill gangs.
The alleged associates of the H Block gang, based on the streets north of Franklin Park, were charged with the sort of gun- and drug-related offenses you'd expect. But their Mission Hill counterparts - based at the Mission Main and Annunciation Road projects - were charged with a different kind of crime with which to support their own violent warring: Heading out into wealthy suburbs and stealing large amounts of mail which they'd rifle for checks, so they could "wash" them with chemicals and make out checks in large amounts to themselves or accomplices. Read more.
A Framingham man charged with shooting a man who tackled him at a hostage-release rally in Newtonville yesterday had bail set today at $5,000 cash and was ordered to give up his three guns at his arraignment on a single charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Read more.
Newton police and EMTs responded to Washington and Harvard streets in Newtonville after a man was shot in the abdomen at a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas, possibly by a participant he ran across the street to tackle around 6:45 p.m. Read more.
The Jewish Journal interviews Erwin Liverman, who started sweeping out chimneys, with his father, when he was just seven and retired only this past July - after a career that also included getting a master's in education in counseling psychology at Cambridge College.
"It just got to the point where I thought, 'Oy, this is enough,' " he said, interviewed at home in Newton. "I may be the most senior sweep in the world."
A federal judge yesterday threw out what was left of a class-action lawsuit by Boston College students against the school for the way it shifted classes from in person to online in the spring of 2020 as Covid-19 spread across the state. Read more.
Brunson vision boarding how to booby trap a door with a grenade, allegedly.
A Newton man who now lives in the Armenian capital of Yerevan this week became an international fugitive when a federal judge in Boston signed an arrest warrant charging him with lying to federal and local officials who wanted to know why he and his belongings kept showing traces of both black powder and an even more volatile chemical sometimes used to make explosives. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer watched a crew carve up a large tree knocked over in West Newton by this afternoon's storm.
At 11:20 a.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Riverside Line as workers "assisted a turtle from the tracks" at Chestnut Hill.
Earlier:
Green Line stopped due to baby ducks.
Newton Police report charging a Boston man with driving around the city "in a white SUV in order to harass and intimidate Jewish community members walking in the area" on April 30 and pulling down blue ribbons on trees outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston on Nahanton Street on Tuesday. Read more.
Mbcrowley snapped an inbound D Line trolley just past Waban around 7 tonight:
No One is using the T … yes some will board but they have a ton of work to do to get people back and spending $$$ on consultants to figure out how to save money is not going to get riders
The MBTA was forced to rustle up some buses to get Riverside Line riders between Fenway and Reservoir due to an issue with the overhead wires near Brookline Hills.
From the complaint: White people can create balloon tunnels; Black people get blocked by bike cops.
A group of Black women who tried to cheer on Black Marathon runners yesterday sued Newton and the BAA to demand they not be physically separated from runners like they say they were during last year's Boston Marathon. Read more.
Boston will get its annual pre-Marathon background nuclear radiation check Thursday through Monday, s o that's why you'll see (and hear) a blue and white copter flying loud and low over downtown and the Marathon route and downtown Boston - like 150 feet up at 80 m.p.h.
The Newton Beacon reports the boiler had sat, unused, behind several locked doors, for decades with "a 3-inch raised-iron swastika" on it until Mayor Ruthanne Fuller heard about it last week and ordered the symbol ground off.
Teddy Kokoros recorded the aftermath of a mighty wind at the JFK/UMass T stop this morning.
Damien Drella reports that high winds caused the partial collapse of a four-story section of an apartment building in Saugus. Read more.
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