A Roxbury man was arrested today on federal charges that he used a Bluetooth-enabled system to help people pass their Commercial Driver's License learner's permit exams - for $3,000. Read more.
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By adamg - 5/29/24 - 6:05 pm
Northeastern University today filed a "letter of intent" with the BPDA that it plans to replace Matthews Arena - built as Boston Arena in the early 1900s and once home to the Bruins and Celtics - with a new 290,000-square-foot facility that will include both an arena for university teams and a fieldhouse for recreational student use. Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/24 - 2:59 pm
Surveillance photo via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy in a plaid long-sleeve shirt with one of the fancier Stop & Shop reusable bags who they say held up the Black Sheep Multiservice store at 537 Dudley St. in Roxbury around 5:40 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
By adamg - 5/18/24 - 10:07 pm
Boston Police report arresting a 13-year-old after he returned to the Mr. Pleasant Play Area to retrieve the handgun with 10 loaded rounds somebody had left there Monday morning - along with another young teen and a Charlestown man. Read more.
By adamg - 5/15/24 - 11:11 pm
Let's start with the telephone museum Verizon has, here in the town where the telephone was first used, but almost never lets anybody in to see. Read more.
By adamg - 5/10/24 - 10:38 pm
Boston Police responded to Circuit Street between Washington and Regent streets on a report of several shots fired shortly before 10 p.m. Officers found at least one shell casing near the park there.
By adamg - 5/7/24 - 11:40 am
A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Roxbury man to nearly four years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm following his arrest on gun charges just a week after he was released from prison from an 18-month sentence for assault with a firearm. Read more.
By adamg - 5/6/24 - 11:30 am
A perplexed citizen files a 311 report about some street signs at Dudley and Warren streets in Roxbury: Read more.
By adamg - 5/6/24 - 10:33 am
Boston Police report two officers patrolling in their cruiser near Warren Gardens heard "several loud bangs," then spotted a man on Dabney Street holding an item in the air with smoke coming from the end, shortly after midnight on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 5/4/24 - 11:54 am
Photo of seized gun and bullets by BPD.
Boston Police report a detail cop at Tremont and Northampton streets who went to investigate when he heard two teens arguing arrested one for the gun loaded with two bullets police say he had in his hoodie pocket. Read more.
By adamg - 5/4/24 - 10:55 am
A federal judge this week sentenced Michael Wilkerson, 23, to 20 months in prison and two years of probation for the "machine-gun conversion devices" he printed up in his apartment that he and a pal then sold to somebody who turned out to be working for the feds. Read more.
By adamg - 4/30/24 - 9:41 am
Boy, it sure rained buckets early this morning, huh? In case you managed to sleep through it all, you could still get a feel for just how much rain fell inside Ruggles station, where Handmaid captured some of the many fine barrels the T put in to capture all that water inside the station.
By adamg - 4/23/24 - 1:46 pm
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy and a group of Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Dorchester residents said today they will continue their legal battle against plans by the city and a professional women's soccer group to remake White Stadium into a modern facility able to host pro soccer. Read more.
By adamg - 4/23/24 - 12:27 pm
A federal appeals court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit by the sister of Juston Root, shot 31 times in 3 seconds by Boston and State Police officers along Rte. 9 in Brookline in 2020, ruling that the officers had more than enough reason to fear for their lives and the lives of nearby people, both because he had pulled what appeared to be a gun on officers outside Brigham and Women's Hospital and because when the officers approached they thought he was about to pull a gun on them. Read more.
By adamg - 4/19/24 - 3:52 pm
Justin Jaleel Caterson is no stranger to the local court system - or to one of the two judges that are now overseeing the cases against him for an alleged two-month rampage in which he went around three Boston neighborhoods smashing car windows. Read more.
By adamg - 4/18/24 - 4:48 pm
A Jamaica Plain man went on a weeks-long car-smashing rampage through Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, using a tool designed to break car windows and packing some brass knuckles in case anybody tried to get in his way, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges. Read more.
By adamg - 4/13/24 - 10:05 pm
At least three cars were hit in a barrage of gunfire shortly before 10 p.m. on Abbotsford Street, off Walnut Avenue in Roxbury. More than a dozen shell casings recovered.
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