Glenn Inghram died from injuries suffered under the wheels of an MBTA bus turning left onto Washington Street from the lower busway at Forest Hills at Tower Street this past Saturday - just a short walk from his home around the corner on the Arborway. Read more.
Rendering (with site of current Hatoff's on right) by Choo & Company.
A developer has filed plans to replace the venerable Hatoff's gas station and the neighboring Acme auto-body shop with 256 apartments and ground-floor retail space in two buildings on either side of Rockvale Circle on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain. Read more.
Young python at the Boston animal shelter.
The Boston city animal shelter in Roslindale is now home to a young python, brought there after somebody found it Monday somewhere along Washington Street in Brighton - so somewhere between Brookline and Newton.
If Snakey looks familiar, contact Animal Care and Control at 617-635-1800 or [email protected].
Boston Police report arresting the man they say shot Jashun Cooley to death on Washington Street in Dorchester on Aug. 24. Read more.
Victim identified as Elijah Ricardo Clunie, 20, of Dorchester.
Two men were shot, one in the head, inside the Exclusive Barber Shop, 184 Washington St. in Dorchester's Four Corners neighborhood shortly before 12:55 p.m. - across the street from where another man was fatally shot last Sunday. Read more.
Victim identified as JaShun Cooley, 38, of Roxbury.
A man was shot at Washington and Morse streets, shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
A man was stabbed on Winter Place off Winter Street in Downtown Crossing around 8:15 a.m.
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The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved the conversion of offices in buildings on Washington, Water and Devonshire streets downtown into 95 apartments, under a city tax-abatement program aimed at encouraging that. Read more.
Remains of the sign, by roving UHub photographer Karyn Regal.
NBC Boston reports the woman was hit in the leg and was able to limp away before being transported to a local hospital for care around 2:15 p.m. on Saturday.
The two outages that left part of Roslindale without lights or air conditioning yesterday were caused by "an underground cable fault" underneath Belgrade Avenue, an Eversource spokesperson said today. Read more.
Power's out in Roslindale in the area where Washington, Beech and Walworth streets conmingle in one of those three-way Boston intersections that are hard to navigate even when the traffic lights are working, given how many people run the lights, let alone now, when they're out and one resident reports "drivers are beeping" in an attempt to get through the mess.
Eversource reports a total of 385 residences and businesses are without power and estimates a 1 p.m. restoration time.
Rendering by Embarc.
A Newton developer has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to raze a single-family house at 434 Washington St. in Brighton Center and replace it with a four-story building with 18 residential units and ground-floor commercial space. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say used a crowbar to smash his way into a store at 338 Washington St. in Dorchester early Sunday. Read more.
Photo by BPD.
Update, 7/5: Judge denies request to hold suspect as potential danger to society, but orders her held in lieu of the $10,000 bail he set.
Boston Police report arresting one of two people who fled without paying for a meal at a Chinatown restaurant Saturday night, after she pointed a gun at one worker trying to stop her, then beat her, then ran outside as she dropped the gun - and her Social Security card. Read more.
A person was shot in front of Fernandez Liquors at Washington and Cedar streets in Roxbury around 10:05 p.m.
Police found shell casings a block away at Cedar and Juniper streets.
Acklerley Communications of Massachusetts yesterday sold the small parcel where it had a billboard on Washington Street in Egleston Square to the city of Boston for $300,000, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 12-year-old on charges he threatened somebody with a knife at Washington Street and Chilcott Place on the Jamaica Plain side of Egleston Square around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
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