Rendering by DREAM Collaborative.
Related Beal and DREAM Development have filed plans for a six-story, 45-unit condo building on what is now a Boston Water and Sewer Commission parking lot on Reed Street between East Lenox and Newcomb streets on the Roxbury/South End line. Read more.
Boston Police report the arrest of Edwin Santos, 22, on charges he was the guy ripping off gold chains off the necks of older people he would follow home from train or bus stops in several neighborhoods. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting two men a 911 caller reported were walking down Savin Street in Roxbury Friday night, at least until officers arrived and then try tried to run away, but failed - one also then failed to hide in some grass that wasn't tall enough to cover him, police say. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a Mattapan man for fatally stabbing Daniel Coke, 45, on Amory Terrace on Aug. 4. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court today agreed one of three men convicted for the murder of a Dudley Square cobbler trying to protect his son from them on Dec. 10, 1974, deserves a new trial because of questions about eyewitness testimony and the failure of Suffolk County prosecutors to turn over evidence that might have bolstered his claim of innocence. Read more.
Surveillance photo of peeper via BPD.
Boston Police are seeking help to identify the guy they say crept up to a house on Devon Street in Grove Hall and then spent some time "looking into an occupied bathroom window" around 2:20 a.m. on Wednesday.
If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-343-4275 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting TIP to CRIME (27463).
Five people were shot in the the area of Circuit Drive between Pierpont Road and the golf clubhouse tonight. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a chain robber who displayed a gun to force one of women to give up a chain she was wearing on Dudley Street at Clarence Street in Roxbury around 8:20 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
Chart from BPHC July 28 report.
The amount of Covid-19 viral particles in Boston sewers - an indicator of the virus's presence in the community - soared in July, when levels were 163% higher than in May, - still way lower than numbers around New Year's and especially two years ago - the Boston Public Health Commission said today. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say shot another man outside 10 Roxbury St. in Nubian Square shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Photo of car's post-crash front end by Transit PD.
Transit Police report a man who plowed his 2004 Honda into the back of an MBTA bus at Columbus Avenue and Dimock Street - where there are two center bus lanes marked off with barriers and red pavement paint - around 6:30 p.m. yesterday told arriving officers he was just following his car's GPS. Read more.
Ben Walsh shows us the grim scene at a Fort Hill playground this morning.
Lahens during one of the robberies. From FBI affidavit.
A federal judge this week sentenced a man to 77 months in prison for robbing a series of businesses in Boston in 2023 while he was on probation for a series of armed robberies in New York. Read more.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday upheld Charles Williams's second-degree murder conviction for the death of Dennis Parham, shot in the head on Shawmut Avenue at Kendall Street in Roxbury's Lenox housing development the night of July 15, 2017. Read more.
The Madison Park Development Corp. says it will soon file detailed plans for a six-story, 54-unit apartment building and a 9-unit condo building on a 3/4-acre lot at 639 Warren St. at Crawford Street in Roxbury's Grove Hall. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to convert a long unoccupied Victorian and its carriage house at 43 Hutchings St. in Roxbury into a residential Web-programming school for 14 young women - over the objections of neighbors, who say they want to keep their street a place of single-family homes rather than a place where do-gooders can dump yet more transitional housing. Read more.
Eversource outage map; orange dot is for more than 1,600 customers.
Eversource reports nearly 1,900 homes and businesses in a swath of Roxbury along Melnea Cass Boulevard - and into South Boston - are without power. Among the affected buildings: 1010 Massachusetts Ave., home to the Boston Public Health Commission, ISD and the Zoning Board of Appeal, which has turned to battery-powered laptops to try to continue its scheduled hearings for today.
Eversource says it hopes to begin restoring power around 3:30 p.m., with the final outage eliminated by 5.
A bleary-eyed resident filed a 311 complaint at 1:33 a.m. this morning about the goings at the Roxbury Community College parking lot along Columbus Avenue:
People have school and work tomorrow. Speakers so loud windows are rattling.
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