Lawyers for the Papantoniadis family, which owns Stash's in Dorchester and Bel Ave Pizza in Roslindale today asked the Boston Licensing Board to let it keep the food-serving licenses for the two places now that Stavros Papantoniadis is serving an 8 1/2-year federal sentence for beating, threatening, berating and underpaying his immigrant workers. Read more.
Seized menthol cigarettes, marijuana, guns and bullets. And a police scanner and cash.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say was selling bootleg Newport cigarettes and illegal weed out of his car behind the Stop & Shop at 468 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall. Read more.
Boston Police report officers who spotted a guy speed past them on American Legion Highway and then turn left onto Blue Hill Avenue early this morning wound up arresting the driver on a variety of charges, several involving this third or fourth offenses for unlawful possession of dangerous weapons. Read more.
Where's the bus stop? It's under the plants. Photo by City of Boston
Boston has covered 30 bus stops along the 28 route between Mattapan Square and Ruggles with planters as part of a three-year pilot that, if successful, could be expanded to bus shelters across the city: Read more.
Boston Police report charging a 73-year-old Cambridge man with the stabbing of a 57-year-old man at Blue Hill and Franklin Hill avenues around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Boston Police report on a series of unrelated arrests Saturday of people wandering around the Caribbean Carnival area with loaded guns, from a 16-year-old and two pals they say had two guns in a backpack - one loaded with 18 bullets - to a man with a gun loaded with seven rounds who was charged with his fourth firearm offense. Read more.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the Domino's at 1514 Blue Hill Ave. extend its closing time to 2 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday - with delivery only via car and payment only by credit card. Read more.
The seven suspects (a couple in more than one photo).
Boston Police report they are looking for seven men and women they say attacked and robbed a woman outside 218 Blue Hill Ave. around 7:40 a.m. on Monday. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposal for a burger trailer inside a tire shop at 538 Blue Hill Ave. at Seaver Street over concerns from neighbors about late-night gatherings and crime and concerns from board members about security before its proposed 1 a.m. closing. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting three of the four suspects in the armed holdup of everybody inside Edward's Barbershop, 479 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall yesterday afternoon. Read more.
Update: Three suspects arrested.
Four men in black ski masks and each armed with a gun burst into Edward's Barbershop, 479 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall around 3:50 p.m. and robbed the six people inside. Read more.
A person was shot several times on Clifford Street at Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury around 1 a.m.
A person was shot at the Mobil station at 783 Blue Hill Ave. at American Legion Highway around 5:15 this morning. Read more.
A federal jury today convicted Stavros Papantoniadis for a reign of terror against his workers, which included sending one man into surgery twice and and tormenting other workers by threatening them with death and with turning them into ICE. Read more.
Victim identified as George Deeble, 42, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report a man was shot at Blue Hill Avenue and Fremont Street around 4:45 a.m. Read more.
Melvin Gross, who says he was one of the two people shot at a party at 1601 Blue Hill Ave. shortly before 6 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2023, today sued the building's owner for allegedly failing to keep him safe. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a total of 15 affordable housing condos on what are now vacant lots on Blue Hill Avenue at Intervale and Brunswick streets. Read more.
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