A man was shot in the right side of his chest inside a home on Vesta Road off Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester around 5 p.m.
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By adamg -
4/14/24 - 2:27 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this blue grosbeak at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today.
By adamg -
4/14/24 - 10:04 am
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, until the bus driver gets on Storrow Drive and skee-ronches right into the infamous Bridge of Double Storrows by Mass Eye and Ear. Tom Leonard couldn't help but photograph the scene this morning, given that the stuck bus was backing up traffic like nobody's business. Read more.
By adamg -
4/13/24 - 10:05 pm
At least three cars were hit in a barrage of gunfire shortly before 10 p.m. on Abbotsford Street, off Walnut Avenue in Roxbury. More than a dozen shell casings recovered.
By adamg -
4/13/24 - 9:51 pm
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld an earlier lower-court ruling that a woman who was suspended from the theology master's program at Boston University for refusing to take the nasal Covid-19 tests the university once required has no case because the school no longer requires the tests. Read more.
By adamg -
4/13/24 - 5:29 pm
Patrick spotted the Nuclear Emergency Support Team's radiation-sensing helicopter over Boylston Street today, doing the annual pre-Marathon check of background-radiation levels, just in case.
By adamg -
4/13/24 - 1:06 pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint asking for help for an injured turkey on Beacon Street near Exeter in the Back Bay: Read more.
By adamg -
4/13/24 - 12:52 pm
Chris Hugenberger shows us his Marathonned house on Albano Street in Roslindale.
Also see: Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings are ready.
By adamg -
4/12/24 - 10:19 pm
Jess Riley shows us the car flipped on its roof on Alston Street in Somerville, near McGrath Highway. Read more.
Philadelphia transit authority gives up on CRRC trains, ends contract before single car is delivered
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that SEPTA, Philadelphia's equivalent of the MBTA, has cancelled a $185-million contract for new commuter-rail cars with the Chinese company building new Orange Line and Red Line trains, after already spending $50 million on the deal and not having actually gotten a single car four years after they were supposed to have started rolling in. Read more.
By adamg -
4/12/24 - 2:29 pm
Cambridge Police today released their most detailed update yet on how a CPD officer's gun came to discharge in a restroom at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. As you may recall, in the last update we were told, the officer had entered the stall to use the facilities and somehow the gun went off. In today's update, we learn the gun fired as he was getting ready to leave: Read more.
By adamg -
4/12/24 - 1:07 pm
The Harvard Crimson talks to City Councilor Liz Breadon (Allston/Brighton) about the city's proposed budget for capital projects, noting that supposed projects to build a new Jackson-Mann school and community center are still only marked as "to be scheduled" and that the neighborhood is dead last in proposed capital projects, behind even smaller neighborhoods.
By adamg -
4/12/24 - 12:59 pm
Shamus Moynihan was on Causeway Street yesterday afternoon and watched the ride and escort a kid from Dorchester got from the Make a Wish Foundation on his way to fulfill his wish to meet the Celtics.
By adamg -
4/12/24 - 12:08 pm
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Leon Robinson got a fair trial on charges he gunned down Recardo Robinson in Robinson's Commonwealth Avenue barbershop during an argument in 2001, which means Robinson will spend the rest of his life in prison. Read more.
By adamg -
4/12/24 - 11:36 am
Update: Haverhill Police report 911 is back up.
Reports are coming in from police and fire departments across the state that the 911 system that connects you to your local first responders isn't working, so if you're having an emergency and 911 doesn't work, you'll have to look up your city's or town's direct numbers.
By adamg -
4/12/24 - 11:05 am
Rendering by Stantec.
The BPDA board yesterday approved Core Development's plans for three life-sciences lab and office buildings - two 13 stories, one 12 - as part of its massive On the Dot project to remake a stretch of Dorchester Avenue from Andrew Square north along the Southampton train yard. Read more.
By adamg -
4/12/24 - 9:36 am
From the complaint: White people can create balloon tunnels; Black people get blocked by bike cops.
A group of Black women who tried to cheer on Black Marathon runners yesterday sued Newton and the BAA to demand they not be physically separated from runners like they say they were during last year's Boston Marathon. Read more.
By adamg -
4/11/24 - 10:02 pm
Ballistics dog on D Street sniffing out evidence. Photo by Spookybirch.
A woman was shot in the leg on D Street at West 7th Street around 8:30 p.m. Read more.
By adamg -
4/11/24 - 6:31 pm
KTC won't forget where he was 30 years ago tonight - or 30 years ago tomorrow:
I spent my last evening at the old Boston Garden with Pearl Jam Cobain died a few days before and no one knew what to expect. The show started in pitch black, the 1st song Release. Epic. Saw them next night at Orpheum.
By adamg -
4/11/24 - 6:19 pm
Liam Martin, who had been the morning anchor at WBZ, explains why he quit: The job was keeping him from his family:
It was a spectacular, sunny day on Cape Cod. And yet I was devastatingly sad. While my kids and wife were happily getting ready for the beach, gathering our sandcastle tools and packing up peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and juice boxes, I had quietly stepped outside as I had several times over the past few months - to cry privately. Secretly.
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