A peeved pedestrian of a citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation where Havre Street empties onto Bennington Street in East Boston: Read more.
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By adamg - 2/14/24 - 9:43 am
The Nairobi News reports Kenyan police have re-arrested Kevin Kangethe, wanted for murdering Margaret Mbitu, driving her body to Logan and then leaving it in the car there as he flew to Nairobi last November. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/24 - 1:13 pm
A Fall River man was arraigned yesterday on a murder charge for the stabbing death of Wilfredo Landaverde Arevalo of Medford at 186 Gove St. in East Boston around 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 15. Read more.
By adamg - 2/9/24 - 7:00 pm
Buddey, the mummified-monkey sniffing dog (what, you think we're going to post the photos of the mummified monkeys?).
A man trying to bring in some desiccated dead monkeys via Logan Airport proved no match for Buddey, the Customs and Border Protection sniffer dog, who led agents doing routine post-flight checks right to a suitcase containing them yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 2/9/24 - 11:26 am
The East Boston Times-Free Press reports on a rally in Maverick Square this week for Marco Flores, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to a charge of voluntary manslaughter for strangling the man who had raped him for years when the man began threatening to do the same to a younger sibling of Flores's.
By adamg - 1/30/24 - 1:23 pm
Four current and former state troopers and two trucker associates - one from East Boston - face federal charges in connection with a bribe-for-license deal at a State Police licensing unit in Stoughton, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 1/30/24 - 9:32 am
Nairobi News reports police there have arrested Kevin Kangethe, formerly of Lowell, to face charges here that he murdered his girlfriend, Margaret Mbitu, drove her body to Logan Airport and then got on a plane to Kenya last November 1. Read more.
By adamg - 1/27/24 - 10:27 pm
Kasey Componeschi Thaw shows us the view out the rear window of a stuck truck in the Sumner Tunnel around 7 p.m.; reports the truck somehow turned into just enough of a bounce house to hit the roof of the tunnel.
By adamg - 1/27/24 - 9:31 pm
At the intersection of McClellan and Addison Street shortly after 5 p.m., NBC Boston reports, adding the driver stayed at the scene.
By adamg - 1/25/24 - 9:48 am
At 8:45 a.m., the MBTA reported halting Blue Line service due to smoke at Airport station. Turned out there was "a fire along the third rail near airport," the T updated at 9:01 a.m., but it was out and service was returning, but with "residual delays," some of which might be caused by T workers trying to figure out what sparked the fire.
H/t Rob A.
By adamg - 1/10/24 - 12:46 pm
Rendering of the two building showing their central plaza by Joy Street Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a proposal for a two-building complex with 35 affordable apartments and 22 affordable condos off Saratoga Street in Orient Heights, but the owner of a commercial building behind which the complex would sit says one of the proposed access routes, via a private way, would violate an easement. Read more.
By adamg - 1/4/24 - 1:30 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Italian Pizza Express, 336 Sumner St. in East Boston, plans to re-open.
By adamg - 1/4/24 - 1:20 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the owner of Mexicali Sushi Bar, 199 Sumner St. in Maverick Square, to rename the place La Piñata. Read more.
By adamg - 1/2/24 - 9:14 pm
An East Boston man started the new year by going on a rampage on Princeton Street that left his girlfriend pouring blood from knife wounds in her head, neck and hand, her car and three others damaged and a man with injuries from being punched in the face, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 12/30/23 - 9:59 pm
Eric Bender, who covers the waterfront, watched this morning, as a crane and crew resurrected the Armageddon, which sank at its berth at the Boston Harbor Marina in East Boston at some point.
By adamg - 12/30/23 - 1:43 pm
Eric Bender watched three Boston tugs guide the tanker Nor'easter out of Chelsea Creek this morning. He reports: Read more.
By adamg - 12/29/23 - 12:09 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Tawakal Halal Cafe on Maverick Street in East Boston's Jeffries Point, is closing next week.
By adamg - 12/22/23 - 11:15 pm
Boston Police report arresting an Everett man on charges he fatally stabbed Wilfredo Landaverde Arevalo of Medford at 186 Gove St. in East Boston around 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 15. Read more.
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Man stabbed in Maverick Square, 12/19/23