Boy, it sure rained buckets early this morning, huh? In case you managed to sleep through it all, you could still get a feel for just how much rain fell inside Ruggles station, where Handmaid captured some of the many fine barrels the T put in to capture all that water inside the station.
A consultant's recorder at the Readville yard used by CSX last year.
Frustrated residents from Readville, Dedham and Milton told the MBTA and state Rep. Rob Consalvo (D-Hyde Park) this evening they are fed up with the overnight vibrations, humming and train horns from Readville's two train yards that they say have especially bedeviled them since 2020. Read more.
Rendering of new pumps off Kenton Road; current garage is where the shrubs are.
Hatoff's, where gas is gas at 3440 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain, has filed plans with ISD to add eight more gas pumps - and opening access to them from Kenton Road. Read more.
A group of Rockport residents yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against the way their town is planning on moving forward with rezoning to comply with a state mandate to increase allowable housing density near MBTA stations (federal courts let people file suits even on Sundays). Read more.
Some things don't change much: The steepleless King's Chapel at Tremont and School streets today looks pretty much like it did back in 1800, when this engraving was made (click that link to see Tremont Street from Court Street to the long gone Carver Street).
Compare to the view from last year: Read more.
Today was the annual Japanese festival on Boston Common. As you might expect from his user name, Aviation Librarian was particularly drawn to the Japan Airlines display, where you could learn how to make an origami airplane and how to taxi a JAL 787 across a tarmac.
A man who was charged in Dorchester court in March with raping three underage teens was arraigned last week on additional charges, including child rape, videoing the girls in the act and forcing them to sell drugs for him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Early risin' Matt Frank caught the moon while on the hunt for a cold brew in Chelsea's Prattville about an hour before sunrise this mornin'.
Mary Ellen spotted a bunch of birds at Millennium Park yesterday, including this l'il plumper, otherwise known as a palm warbler.
And there's this common grackle, looking like something you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, or, well, anywhere else: Read more.
Victim identified as George Deeble, 42, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report a man was shot at Blue Hill Avenue and Fremont Street around 4:45 a.m. Read more.
The FCC says it's grown tired of a man it says has been running an illegal radio station via transmitters in Mattapan, Randolph and Brockton for nearly two decades, so it's now proposing to fine him $597,775 in an attempt to get him to stay off the air. Read more.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced a former State Police lieutenant to five years in federal prison and ordered him to pay $508,000 in restitution, fines and fees for approving they way he controlled bogus overtime payments to troopers - including himself - in the scandal-plagued traffic-enforcement unit, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.
Two letter carriers were held up in Dorchester this morning, one on Mora Street around 11:15 a.m., and the second about ten minutes later and a couple blocks away on Fuller Street.
In the Mora case, the suspect appeared to have a gun. In the other case, the robber tried to grab the mailman's master mailbox key, but failed to get it. In both cases, the robber got away in a white sedan.
One day after it dismissed a lawsuit by some Nantucket residents against wind turbines now being installed south of their island, a federal appeals court dismissed a similar lawsuit by the president of a solar-energy company who has a summer home there. Read more.
The MBTA reported a Red Line train expired at Charles/MGH around 3 p.m.
A developer says it will soon file plans for eight condos in four buildings at 90 Allandale St. in Jamaica Plain, just up the road apiece from Boston's only free-range Scottish Highland bulls and across from the rear of Faulkner Hospital. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday granted Las Delicias Colombianas 2, 1231 River St. in Hyde Park, permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. until 1 a.m. Read more.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Mohammed Chowdhury, 47, to 92 months in federal prison for trying to hire somebody to kill his wife after she kicked him out of their house and took up with another man - whom he also wanted dead. Read more.
Update: Transit Police report they've IDed the guy.
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say started harassing a woman on the Green Line at Kenmore and finished by punching her in the left side of her face at Park Street, shortly before 10 p.m. on April 17. Read more.
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