WBZ reports a child injured in a six-alarm fire on Meridian Street in East Boston on April 2 has died. A second person was reported dead the day of the fire, the cause of which has yet to be announced.
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By adamg -
4/16/24 - 4:08 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this frog, 90% of it underwater, in a vernal pool at Brook Farm in West Roxbury.
By adamg -
4/16/24 - 2:16 pm
A federal judge today tossed a Mansfield man's request to quash a charge of using a gun in furtherance of a drug crime on Second Amendment grounds, concluding that even the most recent Supreme Court gun decisions still only allow gun ownership for "law abiding" reasons and that using guns to stave off other drug dealers doesn't count. Read more.
By adamg -
4/16/24 - 1:25 pm
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.
By adamg -
4/15/24 - 11:07 pm
WBZ reports on the man's plunge at 72 Gardner St. in the GAP area mainly occupied by BU students.
By adamg -
4/15/24 - 9:13 pm
The mayor's office and the BAA announced the fastest man, woman and non-binary runners in today's Marathon: Miles Batty, an MGH orthopedic surgery resident from West Roxbury who finished in 2:25, Ariana Maida, a Dana-Farber physician's assistant from Jamaica Plain, who completed the course in 2:48:50 and Nonie Anderson, a BC Law School student from Brighton, whose time was 3:44:18. Read more.
By adamg -
4/15/24 - 3:42 pm
Matt Frank spotted this sky-blue VW Bug against the blue sky at Revere Beach this afternoon.
By adamg -
4/15/24 - 2:31 pm
Martin Lieberman noticed a developing theme among signs people held to cheer on the runners today. Another example.
Hugmajesty watched the runners rolling by near Cleveland Circle: Read more.
By adamg -
4/15/24 - 1:50 pm
A snake found some old concrete and asphalt chunks a good place to do some sunning at the kayak launch in Millennium Park in West Roxbury this afternoon.
By adamg -
4/15/24 - 9:51 am
Jamaica Plain News reports bb.q Chicken is moving into the Centre Street space where Cafe Beirut used to be.
By adamg -
4/15/24 - 9:39 am
A roving UHub photographer reports from Beacon Street at Kent Street in Brookline, where the Green Line stop was supposed to remain open until 10 a.m., but which was closed at 8:40 a.m. Read more.
By adamg -
4/14/24 - 9:49 pm
A man was shot in the right side of his chest inside a home on Vesta Road off Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester around 5 p.m.
By adamg -
4/14/24 - 2:27 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this blue grosbeak at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today.
By adamg -
4/14/24 - 10:04 am
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, until the bus driver gets on Storrow Drive and skee-ronches right into the infamous Bridge of Double Storrows by Mass Eye and Ear. Tom Leonard couldn't help but photograph the scene this morning, given that the stuck bus was backing up traffic like nobody's business. Read more.
By adamg -
4/13/24 - 10:05 pm
At least three cars were hit in a barrage of gunfire shortly before 10 p.m. on Abbotsford Street, off Walnut Avenue in Roxbury. More than a dozen shell casings recovered.
By adamg -
4/13/24 - 9:51 pm
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld an earlier lower-court ruling that a woman who was suspended from the theology master's program at Boston University for refusing to take the nasal Covid-19 tests the university once required has no case because the school no longer requires the tests. Read more.
By adamg -
4/13/24 - 5:29 pm
Patrick spotted the Nuclear Emergency Support Team's radiation-sensing helicopter over Boylston Street today, doing the annual pre-Marathon check of background-radiation levels, just in case.
By adamg -
4/13/24 - 1:06 pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint asking for help for an injured turkey on Beacon Street near Exeter in the Back Bay: Read more.
By adamg -
4/13/24 - 12:52 pm
Chris Hugenberger shows us his Marathonned house on Albano Street in Roslindale.
Also see: Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings are ready.
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