Boston Police alert us that they, BFD, Boston EMS and mall security will conduct "a full scale training exercise" at the South Bay Mall at 5 a.m. on Sunday and so you shouldn't be alarmed at what you might see or hear should you pass by the mall then - or hear alarming calls on the local scanner channels.
A South Boston woman faces charges that she ran over another woman in the South Bay Mall parking lot off Allstate Road shortly after 11 p.m. on Wednesday, in part based on the "red residue" police found above one of her car's rear tires, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A woman who smuggled some tequila - and blue Gatorade mixer - into the South Bay Applebee's rather than simply chugging down the chain's cheapo maragarita specials one afternoon last October got the restaurant hauled before the Boston Licensing Board today for a disturbance that left her and some poor guy who'd walked over from the nearby Olive Garden laid out outside. Read more.
The Globe reports that Sally's Apizza will be opening an outlet in the upscale wing of the South Bay Mall.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that the Wahlburgers in the new wing of the South Bay mall has closed down. Over in the original wing of the mall, meanwhile, an Applebee's and an Olive Garden remain open.
Boston Police report arresting two people they say were busy busting up the Starbucks at 36 District Ave. in the fancy new section of the South Bay mall this morning when a detail cop tried to intervene only to come under attack from fists and a thrown cup of hot coffee. Read more.
Also see: Brawl outside Tremont Street movie theater.
Boston Police report arresting eight people, between 12 and 17, after a large fight in which some of the combatants allegedly directed their small fists of fury at officers as well, outside the movie theater Sunday afternoon. Read more.
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office yesterday moved to seize the 2017 BMW 750I it alleges a man sold crack out of at Mass and Cass and at the South Bay mall. Read more.
A Macy's with no escalators.
Macy's says it will be opening a micro-Macy's at the South Bay mall next month. Read more.
A federal judge today sentenced Kenji Ingram, 45, of Dorchester, to 27 months in federal prison after he admitted to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Read more.
Update: All approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Dorchester resident Yimi Lajara open Mofongo Factory Restaurant at 299 Hancock St. in Dorchester - and to allow a franchisee to open Halal and spicy-fried-chicken places at the South Bay mall. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a Cape Cod man whose attempt to rob bank branch inside the South Bay Stop & Shop, 1100 Massachusetts Ave., failed when a teller refused to give him any money. Read more.
A Burbank, CA woman who drove all the way to Jamaica Plain for a job to pick up 4 1/2 pounds of fentanyl and delivery it to a buyer in Dorchester last September was sentenced Monday to 4 years, 9 months in Federal prison this week. Read more.
The Pearl Seafood Grill and Raw Bar, in the South Bay mall expansion, hopes to open its doors on April 1, its attorney, Jon Aieta, told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
UPDATE: Bail set at $250,000 for each of the three men.
State Police report an investigation that began late last year led them and Homeland Security to the South Bay mall, where they arrested three men walking around with "three duct-taped bricks of fentanyl, each weighing just over a kilogram" on Friday. Read more.
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