The Huntington News reports on today's sentencing in federal court of Jason Duhaime, convicted of making up a story about an exploding bomb that left part of the campus sealed off in 2022.
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By adamg - 1/12/25 - 11:59 am
Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man they say was asleep behind the wheel of a car on Warren Street near Whiting Street shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Friday - but not for excessive tiredness. Read more.
By adamg - 1/9/25 - 9:20 am
Around 3:30 a.m., somebody fired as many as a dozen rounds along Marcella Street in Roxbury between Highland and Centre streets - but with shell casings also found on the other side of Centre on New Heath Street and on Centre up past New Heath. Read more.
By adamg - 1/7/25 - 2:27 pm
A man who wouldn't take no for an answer from a woman he wanted to dance with at the Liberty Diner on Mass. Ave. last August ended up pulling out a black-handled knife and stabbing the woman's husband in the chest - and slicing open that man's brother's face from ear to chin, police told the Boston Licensing Board at a hearing today. Read more.
By adamg - 12/26/24 - 2:40 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 51 Beech Glen St. in Roxbury around 12:15 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
The department reports no injuries but says the fire displaced one person and one dog in the one occupied unit in the building. The other two units were undergoing renovation, the department says.
By adamg - 12/25/24 - 10:54 pm
The Boston LOL spotted this small tree decorated with a single ornament in Franklin Park.
By adamg - 12/22/24 - 1:42 pm
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say pulled a knife on an employee at the Price Rite at the Washington Park Mall, MLK Boulevard and Warren Street in Roxbury, around 8:05 a.m. on Dec. 11. Read more.
By adamg - 12/21/24 - 11:31 pm
Boston Police report arresting the woman they say fatally stabbed Celia Simmons in Ramsay Park in Roxbury on Nov. 16. Read more.
By adamg - 12/20/24 - 11:53 am
A federal judge today tossed a lawsuit by a lawyer who claimed BPD officers violated his Constitutional rights when he made his way around police tape surrounding a Roxbury Crossing crash scene and then refused to back up because he had an important appointment to get to and they stopped him and only sent him on his away after he flashed his lawyer credentials. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/24 - 7:43 pm
The Dorchester Reporter sums up the latest news on the plans to rebuild White Stadium as a professional soccer arena with modern BPS facilities, which includes rising cost estimates, possible court delays and now the opposition of City Councilor and possible Wu opponent Ed Flynn.
Last night, Wu took to Bluesky to explain her support for the plans and answer questions.
By adamg - 12/19/24 - 11:27 am
Say hello to Brian Foley, who now that the national election is over and he no longer has to wave his Trump flag around Southie and getting into fights with teenagers, is supposedly running for the District 2 (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) city council seat now held by Ed Flynn.
By adamg - 12/18/24 - 11:01 am
We already knew that Said Ahmed is planning to run for the District 7 seat now held by Tania Fernandes Anderson.
Politico reports that Said Abdikarim, who ran for an at-large seat last time (you may remember him from the orange shirt he always wears), is running in District 7 this time. Read more.
By adamg - 12/16/24 - 9:34 am
WBUR profiles Freedom House, which has been providing youth services in Roxbury for 75 years.
By adamg - 12/8/24 - 3:04 pm
Oil-covered goose near Longwood.
Brookline and Boston firefighters responded to the Muddy River and Leverett Pond this afternoon on reports of oil - and a heavy petroleum odor, spreading from Leverett Pond at the rear of the Brook House at 33 Pond Ave. in Brookline and at least as far north as the Longwood Green Line stop. Read more.
By adamg - 12/7/24 - 10:15 am
Rendering of proposed city-funded grandstand, as seen from Playstead Road.
The Globe reports the city is now expecting to have to pay $91 million for its part of the proposed White Stadium reconstruction, up from its initial estimate of $50 million.
By adamg - 12/6/24 - 8:09 am
E-mail to city employee claiming new hire was not a relative. From the indictment.
City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) was arrested this morning on federal charges that she hired a relative and demanded kickbacks from her - $7,000 in cash handed over in a City Hall women's room.
Read more.
By adamg - 12/5/24 - 3:51 pm
Several alleged members of a Boston-area drug ring face court appearances today after their arrests on a charge of conspiracy to sell fentanyl and cocaine - in an operation with growing pains that included the high costs of constantly driving or Ubering between Boston and Providence and employees coming down with work-related ailments, from asthma and neck problems to nausea and drug overdoses, according to documents unsealed in federal court today. Read more.
By adamg - 12/5/24 - 9:46 am
Said Ahmed filed paperwork with the state in October to run for the District 7 city council seat now held by Tania Fernandes Anderson, but only sent out a press release about it yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/2/24 - 3:00 pm
Two men were shot, one in the leg, at 122 Seaver St., at Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury, shortly before 11 a.m. Read more.
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Recent Roxbury crime
Woman fatally stabbed in Ramsay Park, 11/16/24