A pair of men from Charlestown were arraigned Friday on charges they concocted a bogus armed-robbery story to make off with cash from Cava, a Mediterranean restaurant at 125 Summer St. downtown, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a Charlestown man on charges he gunned down Joseph Donahue of Charlestown, whose body was found in the parking lot of the Main Street 7-Eleven on Saturday. Read more.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report a man found lying in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at 140 Main St. in Charlestown around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday was dead from a gunshot wound.
Police say Joseph Donahue, 46, of Charlestown, was pronounced dead at the scene. He is Boston's first murder victim in 2025.
Boston Police report arresting a local and a guy from Wakefield on charges they held up the Star convenience store at 134 Bunker Hill St. in Charlestown shortly before 6:15 p.m. on Monday. Read more.
The city announced today it's installed four vending machines that dispense Narcan, clean syringes and fentanyl test kits - with room for possible later additions that could include pregnancy test kits and socks - and is working to install another eight machines that dispense Narcan across the city. Read more.
Somebody fired around 10 rounds in the area of 105 Bunker Hill St. in Charlestown shortly before 9 p.m. No victims, but at least two cars hit by bullets.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today unanimously approved plans by Jack Kelly III of Charlestown to open a dispensary at 31 Cambridge St., a short distance from an existing dispensary. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say held up the 7-Eleven at 140 Main St. in Charlestown Sunday night. Read more.
Eric Bender photographed the USS Nantucket, docked at the Charlestown Navy Yard today. The Nantucket is a $500-million "littoral combat ship," aimed at close-to-shore operations, but which have been plagued with problems. Read more.
Chelsea Scanner was up before the new sunrise this morning to capture dawn's early light over the Tobin and the Mystic River.
Shortly after 6 p.m., a cannon onboard Old Ironsides misfired and seemed to have lobbed a projectile at a building on the grounds of the Charlestown Navy Yard. Read more
Mayor Wu announced today the city is renaming the North Washington Street bridge after Celtics great and civil-rights activist Bill Russell. Read more.
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about a broken gas lamp on Essex Street in Charlestown: Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Ismail Mohamed, 40, to six to eight years in state prison and three years of probation for the way he beat a woman until her face swelled up, then used a razor blade to slice her face, he claimed, to reduce the swelling, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
CommonWealth Beacon considers the decision by Sean O’Brien, a Medford native who worked his way up from Teamsters Local 25 in Charlestown to become president of the national union, not to have the union make an endorsement in this year's presidential election. It notes that a number of Teamsters locals have endorsed Harris, including Local 122 in Dorchester.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to approve Matthew Sullivan's plan to change his eponymous Sullivan's Public House at 85-87 Main St. in Charlestown into a taco joint called Town Taqueria. Read more.
The Charlestown Neighborhood Council is setting up a Soccer Stadium Committee to ensure Charlestown has some say on the 25,000-seat soccer stadium Robert Kraft wants to build just over the line in Everett, near the casino, the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports.
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