A man from Portland, OR was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court today on charges he raped an killed a woman inside 285 Beacon St. on Oct. 30, 1979, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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By adamg - 8/19/23 - 8:01 am
Brookline Police report that Temple Beth Zion received a bomb threat Friday evening - the latest in a string of such hoax bomb calls to Jewish congregations across the country. Read more.
By adamg - 7/12/23 - 3:03 pm
Company cited this existing secured door, said it would remain for pot deliveries, cash pickups.
The Boston Cannabis Commission will decide whether to let a marijuana chain move its proposed dispensary from the former Mary Ann's on Beacon Street in Cleveland Circle to the former Dunkin' Donuts about 100 feet down the street. Read more.
By adamg - 5/4/23 - 11:58 am
Anusha Mookherjee spotted this sign on the inbound turnpike at Beacon Street in Kenmore Square today, which is, of course, Star Wars Day. Dianoga? What, you don't remember the scene in the trash compactor with the dianoga tentacle?
By adamg - 4/24/23 - 11:26 pm
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say sexually assaulted somebody in the area of Beacon Street and Public Alley 908 near Charlesgate around 11:45 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 4/20/23 - 11:26 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports H Mart is moving into the Beacon Street space where Whole Foods used to be.
By adamg - 2/25/23 - 12:00 pm
Patrick Magure takes us behind the counter at the Busy Bee on Beacon Street in Brookline on a Saturday morning: Read more.
By adamg - 2/16/23 - 1:44 pm
Patrick Maguire reports that Japonaise Bakery & Café, on Beacon Street on the Brookline side of Audubon Circle, expects to re-open in 45 to 60 days. Owner Takeo Sakan closed it in 2021 for the first extensive renovations since it opened in 1985. He started a GoFundme page both to help pay for the new equipment and to help support the staff during the closure.
By adamg - 2/8/23 - 11:26 am
The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a man's first-degree murder conviction that stemmed from some banter-turned-fight over another man's Yankee's cap at closing time outside An Tua Nua on Beacon Street in 2004, so he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Read more.
By adamg - 2/5/23 - 5:26 pm
The Brookline Police Department reports that what might have started as a kitchen fire at Silk Road Uyghur Cuisine, 1398 Beacon St. in Brookline shortly before 3 p.m. turned into a two-alarm fire before Brookline firefighters extinguished the blaze. Read more.
By adamg - 1/25/23 - 9:30 pm
Hotel Buckminster in 1900, three years after it went up in what would become Kenmore Square. From BPL.
A developer says it will soon file plans to gut Kenmore Square's Hotel Buckminster and turn it into a part of a new life-sciences building next door to the life-sciences-focused Fenway Center complex it's already building. Read more
By adamg - 1/24/23 - 1:57 pm
Dan snapped the hawk that's been using a fifth-floor railing at the Boston Athenaeum on Beacon Street as an observation post.
By adamg - 1/22/23 - 6:26 pm
Photo by a roving UHub photographer.
The MBTA had to bust out some shuttle buses for the C Line after a driver somehow wound up on the tracks near Dean Road and Beacon Street, around 5:30 p.m. The T reports things are back to as hunky dory as they get these days on the Green Line.
By adamg - 11/11/22 - 10:57 pm
The MBTA reports it's breaking out some buses to try to ferry C Line riders who are stuck between Cleveland Circle and Coolidge Corner because a driver somehow got his or her car stuck on the tracks near Cleveland Circle.
By adamg - 10/11/22 - 10:02 pm
A federal judge in Boston today sentenced Cory Goldberg, 47, to 30 months in federal prison on several counts related to the sale of meth he pleaded guilty to in September, 2020, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 10/2/22 - 12:39 pm
The MBTA had to rustle up some buses for people trying to travel between St. Mary's Street and Cleveland Circle when a C Line trolley kicked the bucket at Coolidge Corner. They managed to move Old Paint (actually, one of the new Paints) off the tracks and service has resumed, but with the usual 15-minute residual delays.
By adamg - 9/29/22 - 12:29 pm
Three men face federal charges for robbing workers at massage spas in Brookline and Stoneham one night in June - one while wearing a court-ordered monitoring device, another while wearing Adidas Yeezy sneakers - according to filings in US District Court in Boston. Read more.
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