The East Boston Times-Free Press reports on a volunteer effort to plant 100 trees in East Boston this spring as part of an effort to increase the neighborhood's tree count closer to that in Boston's leafier neighborhoods.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 366 Meridian St. for a fire at 12:30 a.m. Read more.
Border Street crime scene
Live Boston reports two men were shot on Border Street near the Shaw's around 2:30 a.m. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of one of the victim's injuries.
Boston Police report that Alvaro Larrama, 39, of East Boston, turned himself in this morning at the A-15 police station for the stabbing murder of Daniel Martinez, 23, on Union Street Saturday night. Read more.
The East Boston Times-Free Press reports on the latest OSHA investigation into Laurence Moloney, this time for conditions at a residential project on Crestway Road in Orient Heights. At least this time, nobody died.
There was a "medical emergency" at Maverick serious enough that the T had to bring in shuttle buses to replace service, only as RadRebe shows, there weren't enough of them. Here, she's at Airport, where she got on a Silver Line bus to downtown - where she was further delayed by Red Line problems.
Nicole DaSilva has set up a GoFundMe page to help the 25 families who lost everything when their Maverick Street homes caught fire early Monday.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 183 Maverick St. in East Boston shortly after 3:30 a.m. for what turned into a six-alarm fire that spread to two adjoining buildings. Read more.
The East Boston Times-Free Press reports Eastie car owners will get to park for free in the airport economy garage during a declared snow emergency in Boston.
Esperanza watched captured one of two swans heading off from East Boston into Chelsea Creek at sunset today.
Before the swan glided off, she reports, it and its partner shooed away some mallards for sole possession of the less than bucolic creek shoreline: Read more.
Salvador, convicted double murderer, making gang signs, with a gang tattoo. From government sentencing memo.
A federal judge today sentenced Henri "Perverso" Salvador Gutierrez to life in prison for the murders of Luis Fernando Orellana Ruano, 18, at Memorial Stadium in East Boston in December, 2016 and Herson Rivas, 17, in a Lynn park two years later. Read more.
The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports on a forum in Charlestown with Gabriela Coletta and Tania Del Rio, who are running for the District 1 (Charlestown, North End, East Boston) City Council seat that Lydia Edwards gave up after her election to the State Senate.
The city has scheduled the election for May 3; there will be a preliminary on April 5 if another candidate joins the race.
Epic Stratton couldn't help but notice the rabbit hopping around Baggage Claim 2 at Logan's Terminal C this morning. Wild bun taking refuge from the storm (and the owls) or an escaped pet? Or was he hoping to hop onto a plane to somewhere warmer and just got lost?
Matt Frank peered across a foggy Boston Harbor at downtown from East Boston this evening.
Jaffejoe617 spotted this discarded note from a car parked in East Boston today.
Roving UHub photographer Traci Laichter spotted a cross-country skier navigating Bennington Street in East Boston around 4 p.m.
Not everybody enjoyed the snow in Eastie: Read more.
Duende poses with guns. Filed with federal sentencing memorandum.
Not directly implicated in any of the murders that led to the arrests of dozens of local MS-13 members in 2016, and deemed too young to be indicted with his homeboys, Cristian "Duende" Alvarez Hernandez was turned over to Immigration for return to his native El Salvador. Read more.
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