Roxbury

Not everybody loving the plans to re-do Blue Hill Avenue

By adamg - 3/2/24 - 11:58 am

The Dorchester Reporter talks to people with reservations about the $44-million project, which would include new center bus lanes.

Five sought for armed robbery of car, phone at Roxbury Community College parking lot

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 10:29 pm

Surveillance photos of suspects via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for five people they say were involved in the armed holdup of a person in a Roxbury Community College parking lot at Columbus Avenue and Cedar Street taking both his phone and a silver Mercedes E-class SUV. Read more.

Boston sets $44-million re-do of Blue Hill Avenue with center bus lanes

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 9:19 am

The Dorchester Reporter has the details of the plan, which calls for reconstruction to start in 2026.

BPS kills plan to move O'Bryant to West Roxbury

By adamg - 2/28/24 - 1:37 pm

WBUR reports Mayor Wu and Boston Public Schools have "indefinitely" put on hold plans to rebuild the crumbling former West Roxbury High School into a new state-of-the-art home for the John D. O'Bryant School, after parents, students and teachers raised objections to a school on the side of a swamp about as far away from the rest of the city as one could get.

Man who spent 27 years in prison for a Roxbury murder he didn't commit sues state to try to get some of his life back

By adamg - 2/26/24 - 9:36 am

James Lucien, convicted in 1995 for first-degree murder based in part on testimony and bogus evidence from a member of a gang of corrupt Boston cops, last week sued the state for the maximum $1-million wrongful imprisonment allowance and to have his criminal file - which also includes armed-robbery and illegal-gun possession convictions stemming from the murder case - expunged from court and probation records. Read more.

Park group sues to block conversion of White Stadium into a professional soccer arena

By adamg - 2/21/24 - 1:33 pm

Citing the potential for "irreparable harm" to Franklin Park, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy yesterday sued Boston, a city trust fund and the group seeking to bring women's professional soccer to Franklin Park over plans for an $80-million rebuilding and expansion of White Stadium. Read more.

Two-alarm fire damages three-family home on Dorr Street in Roxbury

By adamg - 2/16/24 - 9:10 pm

Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 14 Dorr St. in Roxbury around 6 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.Read more.

Brockton man charged with stabbing in Ramsay Park after he returned to the scene of the crime a couple weeks later, police say

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 2:37 pm

Boston Police report arresting Jerome Brown, 43, of Brockton, on charges he stabbed a man on the Washington Street side of Ramsay Park across from Newcomb Street in Roxbury around 10:35 p.m. on Feb. 1. Read more.

Woman sought for hurling stapler at food deliverer's head in Roxbury robbery

By adamg - 2/11/24 - 5:29 pm

Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a woman in her roll in a robbery and attack on a food deliverer on Dale Street in Roxbury Friday evening. Read more.

Three no-fare bus routes to remain free for another two years, Wu says

By adamg - 2/6/24 - 5:44 pm

Mayor Wu announced today that the city's dipping some more into its federal Covid relief funds to continue paying to let riders get on the 23, 28 and 29 buses for free for another two years. Read more.

Man charged with beating and injuring BTD supervisor in Grove Hall

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 3:50 pm

A Dorchester man was arraigned this morning on charges he sent an overnight supervisor for the Boston Transportation Department to the hospital by punching and kicking him at Georgia and Hartwell streets in Grove Hall in Roxbury around 1:20 a.m. Read more.

Migrant families to move from Logan terminal to Roxbury recreation center

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 9:40 pm

CommonWeatlh Beacon reports on the transformation of the Melnea Cass Recreation Center into temporary shelter for immigrants, at least through May 31. CommonWealth notes Gov. Healey and Mayor Wu toured the site today and were met by protesters, some of whom are actual Roxbury residents and some of whom are the rag-tag anti-vaxxers who used to stand outside Wu's house banging on buckets but who had been looking for something else to scream through bullhorns about other than the evils of masks.

Councilors to consider what to do about possible collapse of two hospitals, pullout of chain pharmacies

By adamg - 1/24/24 - 2:52 pm

City Councilors decided today to begin focusing on what to do if Steward Health Care, which runs St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton and Carney Hospital in Dorchester, goes under - and to deal with the more immediate issue of Walgreens closing yet another pharmacy in Roxbury and CVS in the Fields Corner Target. Read more.

Convicted felons don't have a Second Amendment right to walk around with a gun, so man will still have to face trial for the loaded firearm police found on him, judge rules

By adamg - 1/24/24 - 12:51 pm

A man on probation following a ten-year stay in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm will have to face a new federal trial for the same offense because of the loaded gun Boston Police say the took out of his sweatpants in Grove Hall in 2022, a judge has ruled. Read more.

Beth Israel nurse says hospital forced her to get a Covid-19 shot that made her sick, then fired her when she refused the second, so she sues

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 3:25 pm

A long-time nurse at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center says she got the first of two required Covid-19 shots under pressure from hospital administrators - and with God's OK - then fell seriously ill, refused the second shot and was fired. Read more.

Third man convicted for role in murdering man trying to protect his girlfriend at Mass and Cass

By adamg - 1/19/24 - 9:44 am

A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted an Everett man for involuntary manslaughter in the beating and stabbing murder of Ricardo Garcia at Allerton and Peirson streets on Aug. 8, 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Early morning gunfire in Grove Hall followed by arrest, police say

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 11:51 am

Boston Police report officers investigating a report of gunfire at Warren Street and Blue Hill Avenue around 2:45 a.m. quickly spotted and stopped a man leaving the scene and "visibly out of breath." Read more.

How some guns wound up on Boston streets: One guy bought them in South Carolina, where they're legal, then sold them to a guy in Boston, where they're not

By adamg - 1/17/24 - 12:04 pm

The Sportsman's Warehouse page for one of the guns Brunson allegedly bought at its Columbia, SC store.

Two men, one from South Carolina, one from Roxbury, face federal charges for the way they allegedly shipped guns here - for resale to, among others, gang members and teenagers - the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: Synchronized light show at Chester Park is wicked annoying

By adamg - 1/14/24 - 11:15 pm

Imagine all these lights blinking on and off over and over and over.

A concerned citizen files a 311 report about the blinking lights along Chester Park on Massachusetts Avenue: Read more.

Boston Latin Academy put into safe mode after parent calls to report a kid's inside with a gun, only it turned out to be a Nerf gun and the school had already confiscated it

By adamg - 1/12/24 - 2:42 pm

Screen captures of message about safe mode at Boston Latin Academy

Screen captures from one parent's phone of the message parents got.

Police ordered Boston Latin Academy into "safe" mode early this afternoon after a parent reported her daughter had just called her to tell her another student was inside the school with a gun. Read more.