The Dorchester Reporter reports that New Balance CEO and 2016 Trump backer Jim Davis, who pumped $1 million into a PAC that failed to keep Michelle Wu from getting elected mayor this week donated $150,000 to a super PAC that is trying to un-elect two of the City Council's progressive members: Kendra Lara in District 6 and Ricardo Arroyo in District 5. The group's ads in the Herald also support John FitzGerald, Frank Baker's choice, in District 3.
State Police and Boston Fire Department divers today recovered the body of a 60-year-old homeless man reported missing Monday morning from a homeless encampment near where the Mother Brook meets the Neponset River in Hyde Park. Read more.
Boston Police report officers looking for a 14-year-old declared missing found him just as he was getting into a car on Alwin Street in Hyde Park Friday afternoon: Read more.
Mayor Wu is endorsing Enrique Pepén, her former constiuent-services director, over incumbent Ricardo Arroyo in the District 5 (Hyde Park, Roslindale, Mattapan) City Council race in the Sept. 12 preliminary election. Wu had backed Arroyo in previous campaigns - including his run for DA, at least until those allegations surfaced. Read more.
A Dorchester woman admitted Friday she stole more than $100,000 in a year from people applying to rent apartments in Hyde Park, Dorchester and Roxbury by charging them twice as much for security deposits as her employer normally would, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Photo by David Shorr.
Firefighters had to return to the scene of yesterday's scrapyard fire on Wolcott Street in Readville this morning when it reignited this morning. Read more.
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Boston firefighters responded to the James G. Grant Co. scrapyard at 28 Wolcott St., just down the street from the Readville Dunkin' Donuts, around 2 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.
Federal prosecutors today charged Naia Wilson, headmaster at New Mission School until 2019, with wire fraud, and she has agreed to plead guilty. Read more.
Update: Police report he turned himself in.
Boston Police report they have obtained an arrest warrant for Olguens Joseph on charges he ran into Ivan Pierre, 4, at Wood Avenue and Tacoma Street in Hyde Park on July 18, then kept going as the boy died. Read more.
Boston Police now report they are looking for a gray, late-model Chevy Spark - and the driver, whom they say killed Ivan Pierre, 4, at Wood Avenue and Tacoma Street in Hyde Park and then drove off on July 18.
Anybody with information can contact detectives at 617-343-4470.
Boston Police have released video of the gray SUV whose driver they say ran into Ivan Pierre, 4, at Wood Avenue and Tacoma Street Tuesday night, then just kept going. Read more.
The Haley School in Roslindale has alerted parents and staffers that one of its students was seriously injured in a fireworks explosion on July 5th, and points them to a GoFundMe page set up by his mom, which says that in addition to losing most of his fingers on one hand, he suffered serious facial injuries and faces a series of operations.
Republicans in Congress this week stripped $850,000 that would help finish the conversion of a former Hyde Park middle school into an affordable apartment building aimed at LGBTQ seniors, but the work continues and the new building still expects to welcome its first residents early next year, one of the project's organizers said this morning. Read more.
WFXT talks to the family and neighbors of Ivan Pierre, 4, who died when a driver hit him on Wood Avenue near Tacoma Street in Hyde Park last night.
Arroyo, Pepén, Ruiz, Sanon.
The four people running for City Council in District 5 (Hyde Park, Roslindale and Mattapan) met in an online forum last night and agreed on basic issues more than they disagreed: All are in favor of trees, making streets safer and supporting some form of rent stabilization. Read more.
Boston Police report a 4-year-old boy died after being hit by a driver who sped away, in the area of 165 Wood Ave. around 9:30 p.m. Read more.
A Hyde Park woman was arrested today on a federal charge that she and two accomplices convinced senior citizens they had won the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes but had to first pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes and fees to get their winnings. Read more.
An annoyed citizen in Hyde Park files a 311 complaint about the overnight noise from the MBTA's Readville commuter-rail yard: Read more.
The Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association and other civic groups will host an online forum for the four candidates running to represent District 5 - Roslindale, Hyde Park and Mattapan - at 7 p.m. on July 18.
Incumbent Ricardo Arroyo faces challenges from Jean Claude Sanon, Enrique Pepén and Jose Ruiz.
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