Shortly before 7:40 p.m. MassDOT workers removed barrels on the Gordon Avenue side of the River Street Bridge in Cleary Square and let the first driver back on the bridge since it was shut in May, 2022 because it was falling apart. Read more.

Boston firefighters responded to Samari's Nails and Beauty, 993 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, around 9:55 p.m. on Tuesday for a fire. With three hoses pumping water, firefighters knocked the fire down in about seven minutes, but the damage had been done and the store was boarded up today.

The Boston Public Health Commission reports the bloom is off Sprague Pond on the Readville/Dedham line: Water samples taken Nov. 20 and 26 show that the toxic levels of cyanobacteria reported earlier this month have dropped back to safe numbers. Read more.

Boston Police report charging a resident of the Fairmount housing development in Hyde Park with the murder of his neighbor, Jose Alberto Feliz, 28, on Friday. Read more.

The Boston Public Health Commission warns the pond on the Hyde Park/Dedham line off Sprague Street is now infested with a cyanobacteria algae bloom and it has shut the pond to public access - so don't jump in it, go fishing there or let your dog into the smaller of Boston's two great ponds. Read more.

Long line inside Baptist College (18-16) to check out. The tabulator is choking on page 2, with maybe a third of voters' offerings shunted to be hand counted.

A motorcyclist and the driver of another vehicle collided at Hyde Park Avenue and West Street shortly before 3:45 a.m. The motorcyclist was declared dead at the scene.

A federal judge today sentenced a retired Boston Police captain to one year in prison and two years of probation and ordered him to pay $154,249.20 in restitution for participating and overseeing an overtime fraud scheme at the Hyde Park evidence warehouse for several years, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

The owner of a Haitian restaurant on Hyde Park Avenue today described his plans to add jazz and dancing to his offerings should he get one of the three all-alcohol licenses the city has to dole out in 02136 over the next year. Read more.

Boston Police and Boston EMS responded to River and Arlington streets in Hyde Park after a crash shortly before 7:20 p.m. between a scooter and an SUV. The scooter driver was transported to a Boston trauma center with life-threatening injuries. Read more.