An elderly couple at home on 35 Dennison St. in Roxbury were attacked by one of their four dogs, which mauled the woman so badly she was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries to her arm, around 4:30 p.m. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports the death of Gloria Fox, who represented Roxbury and parts of Dorchester for three decades.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 17 Woodville St. in Roxbury around 1:30 a.m. for what turned into a three-alarm blaze that spread to the neighboring 15 Woodville St.
The department reports the fire, on the second and third floors of 17 Woodville, displaced ten people, but adds there were no injuries.
Domingos DaRosa makes a point.
In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.
Greta Gaffin (yes, the kidlet) took in Boston Lights at the Franklin Park Zoo last night. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a Mattapan man on charges he stabbed a man in the back on Humboldt Avenue at Ruthven Street in Roxbury, around 12:30 p.m. Read more.
The local National Women's Soccer League team, the one that could play in a rebuilt White Stadium, will call itself Bos Nation FC, which is supposed to resonate with people who live in a city:
Where sarcasm is the native language. A three dollar and 48 cent cup of coffee is the food of choice. Where a legion of professional sports teams connects us as one. And no one, no one, rests until championship banners are raised.
H/t Shoshana, who had some other suggestions.
Victim identified as Maceo Martin, 41.
Boston Police report a man was shot in an apartment at 17 Hammond St. in Roxbury around 1:35 a.m. Read more.
The Orange Line will be shut between Forest Hills and Back Bay Oct. 8 - 20 for some more of the repair work the T couldn't get to - or discovered it needed to do - during that month-long shutdown back in 2022.
Shuttle buses, natch. The T also suggests commuter rail or, closer to town, the Green Line.
Two of the many sights you can get to on the El.
Before the MBTA, before even Charlie got stuck on the MTA, there was the Boston Elevated Railway Co., the El, a private company formed out of streetcar, bus and, yes, underground subways in the Boston area. Read more.
Where's the bus stop? It's under the plants. Photo by City of Boston
Boston has covered 30 bus stops along the 28 route between Mattapan Square and Ruggles with planters as part of a three-year pilot that, if successful, could be expanded to bus shelters across the city: Read more.
Transit Police report arresting a man they say "fully exposed himself" to a young girl and her mother around 6 p.m. on Saturday. Officers on scene then noticed his exposure before he could zip back up after spotting them, police say. He was charged with open and gross lewdness.
A Dorchester man is scheduled for arraignment Friday on charges he murdered Karen Taylor by repeatedly stabbing her at 37 Williams St. in Roxbury on May 27, 1988, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
An ISD housing inspector looking at a second-floor apartment at 194 Harold St. in Roxbury on Oct. 21, 2021 today sued the building's owners and property manager for the permanent injuries she says she suffered in a fall down the stairs after the manager's dog lunged at her. Read more.
Rendering by Studio Luz Architects.
The Madison Park Development Corp. has filed plans for a six-story residential building on a lot Warren and Crawford street in Roxbury that has sat vacant since the 1960s as a holdover from the Washington Park urban-renewal project. Read more.
A Somerville man who likes to hang out in Egleston Square was ordered held without bail as a danger to the community this week following his arrest on charges he stabbed a senior citizen on a bus in Egleston Square on Sept. 11 - while he was on personal-recognizance release awaiting trial on charges he stabbed somebody three blocks from there last year - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court today reinstated the first-degree murder conviction for the man who sliced open Cristian Giambrone's neck outside the Longwood Medical Area CVS in 2004, which means he will spend the rest of his life in prison without a chance at parole. Read more.
Smith reports on a minivan turned sound truck roaming around the South End last night, "imploring me to vote for Roy Owens in November." Read more.
Even as they are announcing the arrest of a man they say was trailing senior citizens wearing gold chains to rip them off their necks, Boston Police are warning of an outbreak of gold-chain snatchings in Roxbury. Read more.
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