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Playing the gentrification game in Uphams Corner

Greg Cook reports on educator and video star Tory Bullock and the Gentrification Game installation he set up for today and tomorrow between 4 and 7 p.m. at Dudley Neighbors, 572 Columbia Road:

One neighborhood is home to a liquor store while the other has a wine emporium. One side has a check cashing business and a torn-down theater, while the other has “an actual bank” and a pristine theater. Bullock asks, “Can you survive in my fictional transitional neighborhood?”


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Eine kleine Festlichemusik

Compare to this 2013 music-off:


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Bus/car crash in Uphams Corner injures several

The scene this morning. Photo by Chris Dunn.

NBC Boston reports a driver seems to have plowed through a red light and right into an MBTA bus shortly after 6 a.m. at Columbia Road and Dudley Street. The Globe reports seven injured.


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Price is right, again

4-2 and 2-0 in the series and off to the miserably hot Other Coast.


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Red Line train in smoke-filled South Boston tunnel evacuated; service grinds to a halt

The Red Line outbound is dead at Andrew Square due to what the T is calling a "power problem" - dead enough to try to get shuttle buses running between Park Street and Ashmont.

Thomas reports he was on the last car of a train around 11 p.m.:

We were evacuated in a hurry by an official who said the train was on fire, then corrected himself by saying there was a fire in front of the train.

Frank Severino reported "smouldering electrical equipment on tracks" between Andrew and JFK/UMass. Firefighters were using chemicals to fight the fire until the T could shut down power so that they could use water.

The T reports the smoke came from fire in a manhole just south of Andrew station - which heavily damaged five cables powering the Red Line. Once firefighters doused the fire, T workers began repairs to the power lines.


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Fire displaces five in Roslindale

The Boston Fire Department reports a fire at 109 Florence St. in Roslindale this afternoon did an estimated $50,000 in damage and displaced five.

The department reports nobody was injured in the fire, to which firefighters responded around 5:20 p.m.

The cause is under investigation.

Wed, 10/24/2018 - 17:19


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Never mind Joe Buck; let's talk about Smoltz


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This is Boston, not L.A. - We send our players out on the field with rainbows

For the second afternoon in a row before a World Series game, Boston's sky was lit up by a double rainbow. Lena was among the many who captured the ribbons of color over the Boston area.


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Feds say Methuen man was sitting on more than 70 pounds of fentanyl

A Methuen man faces up to life in prison after federal agents found nearly $30 million worth of potentially deadly fentanyl in his car and in a closet in his apartment - where they also found a gas mask and a gun - the US Attorney's office in Boston reports.

A second man, who arrived at Angel Javier Morell-Oneill's apartment with $20,000 as Morell-Oneill was being arrested, was also charged as a courier involved in Morell-Oneill's alleged fentanyl business, the US Attorney's office reports.

Morell-Oneill, whom officials say is really a Dominican national who was kicked out of the country in 2015 - under a different name - was stopped while driving what turned out to be two kilograms of fentanyl to a customer on Monday, according to an affidavit by a DEA agent involved in the case.

Back at his apartment, the affidavit continues, agents with a search warrant found two duffel bags filled with a total of 26 fentanyl bricks, along with a plastic bag and smaller egg-shaped packages also filled with the stuff, along with a gun, ammunition, a gas mask and a money counter.

According to a separate affidavit by the agent, Morell-Oneill was quite chatty and said a tractor-trailer driver had recently dropped off a shipment of drugs and that the guy was still in the area and awaiting payment of $40,000 for his work.

As they talked, the affidavit says, he received a number of calls and texts from a man who had $20,000 to go towards the driver's payment. The two agreed to meet in an hour - enough time for agents to bring Morell-Oneill to a nearby State Police barracks for booking and return him to his apartment - with a woman described as his "paramour" handling several of the calls.

When Jose Rodriguez pulled his minivan into a handicap spot outside Morell-Oneill's apartment, he was met by agents who found two hidden compartments in the vehicle, one containing stacks of money bound with rubber bands - $20,000 in all.

Morell-Oneill was charged with one count of possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, which carries a sentence of between 10 years and life, the US Attorney's office reports. Rodriguez was charged with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to to distribute fentanyl. He faces between three and twenty years in prison if convicted.

In addition to the DEA and State Police, several local police departments, including in Boston, participated in the investigation.

Innocent, etc.


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Willa we get a nor'easter this weekend?

It looks that way, in a storm that will feature the remnants of Hurricane Willa. But at least it'll be rain on the coastal plain, rather than snow.


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