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Transit Police are looking for a guy they say has held up the Fresco flower stand on the Dartmouth Street side of Back Bay station twice this week.
The guy made off with cash in afternoon heists on both Monday and Wednesday. On Monday, he motioned as if he had a gun. He's also wanted for possibly menacing other people in the station.
He's described as Hispanic, about 22, 5'8" to 5"10" and thin. He has a tattoo behind one of his ears.
If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous tip to 873873.
Updated, 12:25 a.m.
For the second day in a row, Boston and Cambridge firefighters and State Police responded to the Massachusetts Avenue bridge on a report of a possible jumper, only to find no evidence on the bridge or in the water that somebody had actually jumped.
Firefighters used thermal imagers and sonar to search the water, after the report of a possible jumper mid-span came in shortly before 11:50 p.m.
The bridge was shut in both directions. Around 12:20 a.m., Boston firefighters began packing up and leaving.
Jay Franzone was among those on hand to watch Adrianne Haslet-Davis dance across the Boston Marathon finish line in Copley Square this morning.
Haslet-Davis, you may recall, was the ballroom dancer who lost her left leg below the knee in the 2013 bombings.
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Stevil attended the vigil for earthquake victims in Nepal in Copley Square last night.
Copyright Stevil. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Nick Barber captured the scene as Marty Walsh greeted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after Abe laid a wreath at the Boston Marathon finish line this morning.
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Rory Razon, who took the photo of the car in question, reports:
Some idiot left his car and refused to move it. Police action. They took to guy into custody.
A roving UHub correspondent alerted us yesterday to this swastika on the rear wall of 66 Hereford St. in the Back Bay. It was still there this afternoon, granted, in an alley behind a parked car.
Erica Hersh asks:
Where in Boston can I get reasonably priced but high quality bridesmaid dress alterations done? Back Bay/South End preferred.
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@universalhub the power of human spirit on display, Boylston st 2 blocks from finish: pic.twitter.com/nzGkscv4RU
— oyster dood (@oysterbro) April 20, 2015
WBUR posts the results of the race, won by Lelisa Desisa, Caroline Rotich, Marcel Hug and Tatyana McFadden.
Dvdoff was in the Copley Plaza this morning as the elite runners got a sendoff before boarding a bus for the Marathon starting line in Hopkinton.
Our own Dvdoff was down in Copley Square this morning, watching workers cleaning the Marathon finish line.
617 Images captured the Swan Boats back in the Public Garden Lagoon yesterday.
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