The Supreme Judicial Court this week ruled a company that owns an office building and freight warehouse on five acres of Massport land off McClellan Highway in East Boston has to pay Boston property taxes - mainly because in 1993, the state Senate only sort of voted to override a Bill Weld veto of a measure that would have exempted the building, but not really. Read more.
By adamg - 2/7/25 - 1:35 pm
A Newton man is scheduled for an appearance in federal court today on a charge that he managed to slide his fingers in between the back and cushion of the seat of a 17-year-old in front of him to finger her buttocks while flying back from Puerto Rico to Logan with his family. Read more.
By adamg - 2/1/25 - 11:43 am
Roman the roving UHub photographer spotted fighter jets sitting on the tarmac by Terminal E this morning. WBZ reports the jets are here to honor Capt. Richard Stratton, a Vietnam War Navy veteran and Quincy native who died last week at 93.
By adamg - 1/16/25 - 11:35 am
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the Burger King at 944 Bennington St. in East Boston's Orient Heights to keep its grills on and its oil hot 24 hours a day to serve deliveries to people who need sustenance whenever, especially people working or landing early in the morning at nearby Logan Airport. Read more.
By adamg - 10/29/24 - 10:42 pm
UNITE HERE Local 26 reports that it has reached a tentative deal with the owner of the Hilton Boston Logan Airport and Hilton Boston Park Plaza and has suspended its picketing outside the two hotels.
If workers vote to ratify the deal, they will return to work at 4 a.m. on Friday, the union says, adding the deal also applies to workers at the DoubleTree Hilton Boston-Cambridge and the Hampton Inn & Homewood Suites Boston Seaport, who walked off the job for three days last month.
By adamg - 10/24/24 - 1:20 pm
An Indian national pulled off a plane from the Middle East after it landed at Logan Monday morning has agreed to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors in which he would be put on probation for 24 months - and would have to delete all the photos on his phone that he took of a woman he was molesting on the flight before he went back to his seat, unzipped his pants and brought himself off in full view of at least two other passengers. Read more.
By adamg - 10/23/24 - 1:42 pm
The Boston City Council voted unanimously today to continue support of UNITE HERE Local 26, currently on strike against the Park Plaza and Airport Hilton after reaching a deal with the Omni Parker House and Boston Seaport hotels. Councilors urged Boston residents to stay away from events at the Park Plaza and Airport hotels.
By adamg - 10/21/24 - 11:33 pm
An Indian national is in federal custody after his arrest at Logan Airport this morning on a charge that he kept exposing himself to other passengers as he attempted to get some personal loving in on a flight from Abu Dhabi - after first failing to get a woman passenger whose hair and breast he touched to spend the night with him in Boston in exchange for a $5,000 "gift," according to documents unsealed in federal court tonight. Read more.
By adamg - 10/20/24 - 7:19 pm
Aviation for Aviators reports the pilots of a British Airways Airbus A380 - one of the world's largest jets - got lost on the way to Terminal E after landing at Logan on Friday and wound up stuck for nearly an hour on a taxiway that was supposed to be closed for construction. Massport had to bring in a "pushback tug" to haul the jumbo jet to the right taxiway so that it could then, well, taxi, to the terminal.
By adamg - 9/2/24 - 11:09 am
Kevin Kangethe, 42, who allegedly stabbed girlfriend Margaret Mbitu to death, left her jacket-covered body in the front seat of his Toyota Venza at Logan Central Parking, then fled to Kenya in November, was flown back to Boston today to face arraignment on a murder charge in Suffolk Superior Court tomorrow, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
FedEx worker ordered held without bail on charges he flew ten pounds of meth from Las Vegas to Logan
By adamg - 7/31/24 - 12:58 pm
A federal magistrate judge last week ordered a former Quincy man facing drug-distribution charges ordered held without bail pending his trial, ruling his pending charges and his past criminal record show he would prove a risk to society were he allowed to remain free. Read more.
By adamg - 6/18/24 - 9:25 am
CommonWealth Beacon considers a proposal by Atlantic writer - and Boston Phoenix alum - .Mark Leibovich to rename our airport after the Celtics great and civil-rights activist.
By adamg - 6/5/24 - 5:16 pm
Ari Ofsevit reports that "that rumble over downtown you may have heard" was United Flight 688 coming in not much higher than the tops of some downtown buildings for a 4:39 p.m. landing at Logan at the end of a flight from Newark.
By adamg - 5/29/24 - 4:15 pm
What a kidder! Massport announced today it's hired Davey, formerly of the MBTA, MassDOT and, shh, Boston 2024, but more recently of the New York City subway and bus system, to oversee its airports and port operations. Massport will pay Davey $420,000 a year, and he's supposed to start Sept. 9. The announcement comes two weeks after Davey declined interest in becoming a Bostonian again.
By adamg - 5/22/24 - 12:13 pm
A Dorchester couple who showed up at Logan Airport last month with $589,041 in cash stuffed inside pants in two carry-on suitcases and two duffel bags could be about to lose the money, under a forfeiture motion filed yesterday by the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Read more.
By adamg - 5/14/24 - 1:10 pm
A London resident was sent to the Suffolk County jail yesterday after she couldn't make the $1,500 bail set at her arraignment for trafficking between 50 and 100 pounds of marijuana, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 2/14/24 - 9:43 am
The Nairobi News reports Kenyan police have re-arrested Kevin Kangethe, wanted for murdering Margaret Mbitu, driving her body to Logan and then leaving it in the car there as he flew to Nairobi last November. Read more.
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