Four sought for early morning Mission Hill home invasion, kidnapping
By adamg - 5/15/13 - 9:25 amStanley Staco and WBZ report that around 1:30 a.m., four masked gunmen burst into an apartment on New Whitney Street in the Mission Park development and kidnapped a 16-year-old girl - after first using zipties to restrain her mother
About 50 minutes later, the teen was found outside a Dunkin' Donuts on Adams Street in Dorchester Lower Mills, her wrists still bound.
Apartment tower proposed for Congress Street near the convention center
By adamg - 5/15/13 - 7:53 amThe Boston Business Journal reports on plans for a 22-story building that would house 414 apartments, from studios to three-bedroom units, including nine "micro units" that would go for $1,700 a month. Also notable: Only 132 parking spaces are planned for the project, near a Silver Line stop.
Where was fire chief right after the bombings?
By adamg - 5/15/13 - 7:44 amThe Herald reports all 13 deputy fire chiefs signed a letter declaring they have no confidence in Fire Chief Steve Abraira, the department's highest ranking uniformed officer, in part because he didn't want to assume command in the minutes after the Boston Marathon bombings.
Abraira reports to Fire Commissioner Rod Fraser, who hired him from Dallas - the first time the job has ever gone to somebody not from Boston. He explains to the Herald why he left Marathon response to commanders in the field.
A generation that's driving less, and what that means for Boston
By adamg - 5/15/13 - 7:38 amWBUR interviews Wendy Landman, executive director of WalkBoston on the implications of people who just don't want to drive as much as their parents.
Man admits putting hands around bus driver's neck, but denies trying to choke him
By adamg - 5/15/13 - 6:40 amThis guy tells WBZ he was only expressing his displeasure at the way the driver was driving.
DA: Men denied entry to Dorchester party expressed their displeasure through gunfire
By adamg - 5/14/13 - 8:52 pmTwo Mattapan men were ordered held in lieu of $200,000 bail each today at their arraignment on charges they resorted to gunfire when barred from a party on Evans Street late Saturday night, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Guerilla knitter remembers the Marathon
By adamg - 5/14/13 - 8:33 pm
Cherie L. King spotted this crochet memorial in Copley Square today. Meanwhile, the memorial itself continues to grow.
David Ortiz owns his words - and now so can you
By adamg - 5/14/13 - 7:26 pmBig Papi is selling memorial bats with net proceeds going to the One Fund. The blue bats feature the phrase "This is our f-ing city" (yes, written just like that).
Out of dry dock
By adamg - 5/14/13 - 4:35 pm
After close to three years in a dry dock for repairs, the USS Cassin Young moved back into the harbor today to rejoin Old Ironsides as part of the Navy Yard historical park. Doris was among those who watched.
Man charged with choking bus driver in Saugus two days after start of campaign against attacking T workers
By adamg - 5/14/13 - 3:34 pm
Transit Police report arresting a Saugus man after he started choking a bus driver for no good reason they could tell and another passenger had to pull him off.
Police say Franco Contino rode a 426 bus from Haymarket in Boston to Saugus without incident last Wednesday afternoon.
But when the bus stopped on Lincoln Avenue to let passengers off, Contino erupted in fury and began cursing out the driver, Transit Police say:
International incident lands Theater District bar in hot water
By adamg - 5/14/13 - 2:16 pmAn Irishman who took offense to a German woman being in the Tam on St. Patrick's Day head butted her in the nose, sending her to the hospital and the bar to the Boston Licensing Board.
Maybe a man was smashed in the face with a beer bottle at an Allston bar, and maybe he wasn't
By adamg - 5/14/13 - 12:32 pmA manager at Tavern in the Square in Allston had to explain to the Boston Licensing Board today why nobody at the Brighton Avenue bar called police after a patron had a beer bottle thrown at his head and another was tossed to the sidewalk outside and kicked by bouncers on March 16.
That's because none of it happened, manager Patrick Dylan told board members at a hearing today.
On Thursday, the board has to decide which story to believe and what, if anything to do about it.
Citizen complaint of the day: Ad-hoc public toilets
By adamg - 5/14/13 - 8:33 amA nose-holding citizen reports from Roslindale:
Porter potty needed for field- athletes have no facilities and are using the tunnel that connects Fallon field to Belgrade ave to relieve themselves. It smells like urine and is unnerving for walkers.
And in the South End, a disgusted citizen posts a photo of a hole in the ground:
Homeless people have dug this foot-deep hole in Chester square park and use it as a restroom. It is roughly across the street from 553 mass ave, next to a small tree.
Entire city should vote on casino, two candidates for mayor say
By adamg - 5/14/13 - 6:45 amThe Herald talks to Dan Conley and John Barros. Currently, only East Boston is slated to vote on the proposed Suffolk Downs casino.
Suffolk County jail workers use fake tickets to get free on-street parking
By adamg - 5/14/13 - 6:41 amWBZ reports.
Doe, a deer, an Eastie deer ...
By adamg - 5/13/13 - 10:15 pm
Richard C. Lynds forwarded this photo of a deer, taken by Barbie Gambale Puopolo tonight in the Ohabei Shalom Cemetery, between Wordsworth and Byron in East Boston.
Police: Dad left baby alone in car on Mother's Day while he went into a building known for drug sales
By adamg - 5/13/13 - 4:39 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Jamaica Plain man outside a Roxbury building known for drug sales - after he came out of it while they were about to break into a car to resuce the infant a witness had spotted alone in a car seat.
Carlos Maldonado, 41, was charged with child endangerment, possession of crack and possession of an illegal knife outside 21 Greenville St., police say.
According to police, a 911 caller reported a baby in a car shortly before 6 p.m. yesterday. An officer arrived on scene and:
Starting this fall, no ifs, ands or butts at Northeastern as university goes smoke free
By adamg - 5/13/13 - 3:39 pmThis fall, Northeastern students, faculty and staff will have to leave the butts at home - the school tomorrow will announce plans for a smoke-free campus, both indoors and outside. In an e-mail to students today, Terry Fulmer, dean of Bouvé College of Health Sciences writes:
Grand Canal gets five-day suspension for bouncers beating up patrons
By adamg - 5/13/13 - 12:51 pmThe Boston Licensing Board last week ordered Grand Canal, 57 Canal St., to shut for five days as punishment for a March 24 incident in which one bouncer was videoed repeatedly kicking a customer in the head and in which a second bouncer inflicted severe enough injuries on three other patrons to warrant sending them to the hospital as well.
