Mary Ellen was among the bird enthusiasts who gathered on the beach between the Curley Community Center and Carson Beach today for a chance to photograph the brown booby that decided to head north for some time in the Hub.
The booby in action - look at that neck go: Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board deferred a vote today on a request from an East 8th Street market to let it sell beer and wine, so that board members can consider whether South Boston is on the verge of having too many places that sell adult beverages. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the operator of the existing indoor golf-simulator joint near City Hall expand into a second location at 311 Summer St. in Fort Point and buy the liquor license from a South End seafood tapas place. Read more.
They'll be working on the railroad, all the live long day. Photo by Just Some Dude.
Matt Frank went down to Castle Island today to watch Old Ironsides on its trip around Boston Harbor and got a good view of both it and Codzilla.
A man was shot in the leg at 4 Dalessio Ct., off Orton Marotta Way in South Boston, around 9:45 p.m. Shell casings recovered.
On the Channel captured the scene on A Street at Melcher Street in Fort Point, where the driver of a Hyundai Tucson somehow flipped the vehicle shortly before 8 a.m. He was able to get out of the SUV himself before first responders arrived.
Boston Police found the teen shot in the hip in the area of Northern Avenue and Pier 4 Boulevard around 11:45 a.m. after graduation ceremonies for Boston Collaborative High School in South Boston. Read more.
Roman Lilligren couldn't help but notice the old Red Line car being towed down Dorchester Avenue in South Boston and then unhitched at the On the Dot project along Dorchester Avenue from Andrew Square north. Read more.
A brawl at Wood Avenue at Frazer Street ended with a man in his 40s stabbed several times in both the stomach and the back around 4:15 p.m. Read more.
Bystanders attend to downed bicyclist before police, paramedics arrive. Car on far right is the cab that hit the bicyclist.
Joseph Dunkle, 36, was arraigned yesterday for his alleged role in a Tudor Street stomping after this year's St. Patrick's Day parade that sent three men to the hospital. Read more.
A judge has ordered a South Boston man who already has a long record for violent crime held pending a dangerousness hearing next week after his arrest on charges he tried to slice somebody up at the Andrew MBTA station on Tuesday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Rendering by RODE Architects
Developer Sing Ming Chan this week filed plans for a proposed nine-story, 71-unit apartment building at 49-51 D St. in South Boston. Read more.
A Connecticut man who is serving 18 months on a federal conviction in Maine for threatening death against a the judge and prosecutor and an investigator in the sexual-abuse case that got him an addition 11 1/4 years in prison was indicted today for sending more threatening letters, this time in federal court in Boston - where an appeals court is currently considering his bids to reduce both those sentences. Read more.
Even tough State Police horses - and their riders - need a break, especially on a hot day like today, as roving UHub photographer Jonathan Mardukas discovered at Carson Beach in South Boston today.
Around 9:30 a.m., a car erupted into flames inside the eastbound Ted Williams Tunnel in South Boston, less than a day after a two-alarm, three-car conflagration in the tunnel leading from the northbound Tip O'Neill Tunnel to the Ted Williams. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today gave two South Boston convenience stores that already had beer and wine licenses permission to add hard liquor to their offerings. Read more.
The group of five in surveillance photos released by BPD.
Two South Boston men were arraigned today on charges they sent three men to the hospital by stomping on them on Tudor Street after the St. Patrick's Day parade on March 17. A third man, brother of one of the other two, will also face charges for the attack once police catch up with him. Read more.
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