President Biden has commuted the death sentences to life in prison for 37 of the 40 people on federal death row.
He believes that America must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level, except in cases of terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder – which is why today’s actions apply to all but those cases.
James was riding along the Esplanade lagoon on the Paul Dudley White path yesterday when he couldn't help but notice the eagle flying along the banks of the Charles before coming in for a landing on a tree on the Storrow side of the lagoon.
Earlier:
Eagle eyeing the Muddy River.
Photo forwarded by Chris Gervais.
For the second time in two days, a water main along Boylston Street burst, this time in front of the new office building going in where Shreve, Crump & Low used to be at the corner with Arlington Street, but possibly extending as far down as the benighted and condemned Tannery building several doors down. Read more.
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission reports a main burst at Belvedere and St. Cecilia streets, which means no water for Berklee College. Photos.
It's a nightmare getting home on commuter-rail trains out of South Station because of an Amtrak train that took out one of the overhead power lines near Back Bay. Or as the T puts it:
Framingham/Worcester, Needham, Franklin/Foxboro Line & Providence/Stoughton Line passengers are experiencing severe delays in both directions due to a downed catenary wire & earlier disabled Amtrak train. All trains must operate on one track at Back Bay.
The view of downtown from the Bates School parking lot in Roslindale at 4:05 this afternoon.
And yes, the Hancock wanted to get in on the act: Read more.
Patrick Snyder captured this evening's sunset over the Charles from an outbound Red Line train on the Longfellow Bridge.
Let's ask Dan Shaughnessy!
Now lest you think that's just some copy editor blurbing badly, it's actually in the column, written by the longtime resident of Newton, which isn't really all that far from Fenway Park: Read more.
Surveillance photos of alleged thief via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say rifled the locker room at G20, 33 Exeter St. in the Back Bay, making off with $250,000 worth of jewelry Tuesday afternoon. Read more.
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about this relic of the time before everybody had their own personal communications device: Read more.
A group of out-of-state Catholic men, possibly joined by some local Nazis, have decided to try to shove their will down our throats in a march Saturday morning from the Planned Parenthood clinic at Packards Corner down to the Common, where they will keen and wail and demand us godless heathens just stop all this nonsense immediately. Read more.
NBC Boston has the pics of the aftermath of a truck driver heading inbound on Storrow Drive having his entire roof peeled back like a long stretch of tin foil as he tried but failed to squeeze under the Fairfield Street footbridge around 5:15 a.m.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Tree House Brewing Co. is looking to open a brewery AND a distillery at the Prudential Center. With a tasting room, of course. The Boston Licensing Board considers the applications (beer and spirits require separate licenses) at a hearing on Wednesday.
The Boston Sun reports a chain called First Watch, which offers blunchy stuff, is looking at space at 777 Boylston St. for its first Boston location. They'll be seeking a liquor license, because what's breakfast without a bloody Mary?
When Boston Police announced the arrest of a woman charged with stealing $4,800 of stuff from the Prudential Center Lululemon on Saturday, they gave her name as that of a 37-year-old Ipswich woman. Read more.
A man and a woman face charges in unrelated shoplifting incidents in which both targeted Lululemon outlets in the Back Bay. Read more.
The city today announced the expansion of the Open Newbury street closing to two Sundays during the holiday season next month.
The street will be shut to motor vehicles on Dec. 1 and Dec. 8 in what had previously been just a summertime program to let pedestrians have free reign, if even just for part of a day, between Berkeley Street and Massachusetts Avenue, and between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Proposed Jenga tower next to Back Bay station still just proposed.
The Boston Business Journal reports the developer that once proposed some major reconstruction of the space around and above Back Bay station - which would have included a re-do of the station's interior - is continuing to not move forward on its proposal because, well, you know, the office market and all. Read more.
An annoyed resident filed a 311 complaint at 7:52 a.m. about the striking Park Plaza workers, who now strike up the band, um, buckets and loudspeakers, starting at 7 a.m.: Read more.
A Commonwealth Avenue resident whose condo backs up to the Newbury Street location of yet another proposed dispensary says the idea goes against city zoning codes and would help diminish the neighborhood and his property in so many ways, including through the generation of "noxious odors." Read more.
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