Boston firefighters responded to 294 Neponset Valley Parkway in Hyde Park shortly before 4 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
The Boston Fire Department reports smoke was pouring from the house when firefighters arrived.
A Massachusetts Land Court judge this week agreed to let the state Attorney General's office get into the legal scrum over the future of a former library on Hamilton Street in Hyde Park's Readville neighborhood that is owned by the church next door - which wants to raze it to build apartments. Read more.
Photo by Russell Holman.
Matt Shuman forwarded photos from Russell Holman, who was driving down Neponset Valley Parkway near Westinghouse Plaza in Hyde Park Friday afternoon when he couldn't help but notice a Lamborghini fully engulfed in flames. Read more.
Inside the old library in the 1930s, by W. Jordan, from the BPL's Boston Pictorial Archive.
A Readville church is asking a judge to let it ignore a restriction in the 1897 deed that limits the use of a side building to "a free and public reading room and library" so that it can put up a six-unit apartment building in its place. Read more.
Tykei Hallman, 25, of Hyde Park, a 6'6" former high-school basketball player who now walks with a limp, is scheduled for arraignment in federal court today on a count of robbery involving use of a firearm for the robbery of a Quincy convenience store - but he is the suspect in 15 robberies and robbery attempts in the Boston area - three of them robberies at Mobile station on Neponset Valley Parkway in Hyde Park's Readville section and a failed robbery at Rogers Service down the street. Read more.
Look at that: Pole for traffic light now in place, at intersection with Hyde Park Avenue.
Workers this week have been busy getting both sides of the Father Hart Bridge in Readville ready for honest-to-goodness traffic signals. Read more.
Surveillance photos via FBI.
The FBI announced today it's offering $10,000 to anybody who can tell it how to capture a limping man responsible for seven armed holdups and two failed holdup attempts at Boston-area gas stations -- four of them on Neponset Valley Parkway in Readville. Read more.
The FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force has released photos of a man it says held up a Mobil station in Readville last August - which was among a number of gas stations and convenience stores it says he held up in Boston and towns south of the city. Read more.
On Neponset Valley Parkway between Albermarle and Buckingham streets around 11:45 p.m. on Saturday, NBC Boston reports.
Cori Stott was among the people who got stuck when an 18-wheeler got stuck making the turn onto Neponset Valley Parkway from Meadow Road - where the Stop & Shop warehouse used to be.
Photo by Chris Walsh. See it larger.
The Herald reports a Neponset Valley Parkway lawyer has finally taken down his Marty Walsh for Mayor sign after at least one neighbor began complaining about all the Easter decorations festooning it - a few months after the sign was lit up with Christmas lights.
Another resident agreed the sign's time had past, but said it didn't seem much worse than all the Menino references he sees everywhere and which he says he can still see in his dreams.
Photo copyright Chris Rich. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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