A Roxbury man who was charged with stabbing somebody at the Nubian Square bus station around 2 p.m. on Wednesday was arrested there again last night after he allegedly lunged at another man with a knife for eying his woman, only his woman tried to stop him and he wound up stabbing her instead, Transit Police say. Read more.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Around 10 p.m. She was taken to a local hospital with an injury not considered life threatening. A folding knife possibly used in the attack was found at the station.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a developer's proposal to replace a building at Warren and Winthrop Street that burned down in a 2014 fire with a four-story office building with eight parking spaces. Read more.
The US Attorney's office in Boston reports a man who already had a long record was indicted by a federal grand jury because he was allegedly found inside Frugal Bookstore in Nubian Square, with a gun in July, and federal law bars convicted felons like him from getting anywhere near firearms. Read more.
Mayor Walsh told people heading to Nubian Square for a planned Breonna Taylor protest at 6 p.m. that they best way to protest is peacefully. Read more.
Detective storing gun found in car on Malcolm X Boulevard. Photo by Live Boston.
Boston Police report arresting two men they say were wandering around Roxbury Friday and early today, one on foot, the other in a gold BMW. Read more.
Gateway Nubian rendering. See larger.
Parking lots that now stretch along Melnea Cass Boulevard between Washington Street and Harrison Avenue would become new mixed-use buildings with a park, under proposals submitted to the BPDA by three development teams to create a new gateway complex for Nubian Square. Read more.
State Rep. Liz Miranda reports some 2,000 Eversource customers have no power along Dudley Street toward Orchard Park. Eversource's outage map shows outages all around Nubian Square.
WHDH interviews the owner of the M&R convenience store on Shawmut Avenue, where his employee, a recent immigrant from Bangladesh, who came here in search of an education was shot in the head Tuesday night.
Photo via Black Market Nubian.
Black Market Nubian's Kai Grant reports on the painting of the 500-foot-long mural on Washington Street between Palmer and Eustis streets.
The Bay State Banner reports on the controversy surrounding the 7-4 renaming vote by BPL trustees.
Several hundred, mostly masked, protesters gathered in Peters Park in the South End this afternoon to protest George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, then marched to Nubian Square to continue the protest. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire on the second floor of the building housing Ugi's Subs on Warren Street in Nubian Square did an estimated $250,000 in damage.
Firefighters responded around 5:30 a.m.
Live Boston reports that around 9:30 p.m., a man showed up at the Boston Medical Center emergency room with a gunshot wound he told police happened in the area of Warren and Zeigler streets in Nubian Square.
Rendering by DREAM Collaborative.
The Zoning Board of Appeal this morning approved a new building at 2147 Washington St. in Roxbury that will include 62 affordable apartments, 12 affordable condos, enough room to double the capacity of the newly reopened Haley House Cafe and 4,000 square feet of shared studio space for the artists who will be the main group the building's units will be marketed to. Read more.
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