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.
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By adamg - 7/21/23 - 8:58 am
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.
By adamg - 7/20/23 - 9:47 am
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.
By adamg - 7/19/23 - 9:49 pm
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.
By adamg - 7/19/23 - 3:08 pm
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.
By adamg - 7/18/23 - 10:10 pm
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.
By adamg - 7/17/23 - 9:17 pm
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.
By adamg - 7/16/23 - 3:36 pm
An annoyed citizen in Hyde Park files a 311 complaint about the overnight noise from the MBTA's Readville commuter-rail yard: Read more.
By adamg - 7/11/23 - 1:16 pm
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.
By adamg - 7/6/23 - 9:08 pm
A federal judge has sentenced a member of the Sinaloa cartel who set up housekeeping in East Boston to ten years after he pleaded guilty to distributing heroin and cocaine from Maverick Square to Hyde Park - sometimes with his wife and young children in tow. Read more.
By adamg - 7/6/23 - 8:51 am
City Council President Ed Flynn has some thoughts on Councilor Kendra Lara's car crash and Councilor Ricardo Arroyo's ethics fine last week: Read more.
By adamg - 6/28/23 - 10:02 am
The state Ethics Commission reported yesterday that City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) has paid a $3,000 fine for not withdrawing as a lawyer, after his election, from the lawsuit his brother, former City Councilor and mayoral aide Felix Arroyo, filed against the city over his firing. Read more.
By adamg - 6/23/23 - 1:57 pm
Nothing like pulling into the Wolcott Square Dunkin' Donuts for a couple of breakfast sandwiches and seeing a freight train slowly rolling past on the Fairmount Line tracks above you. Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/23 - 4:45 pm
Photo of replica assault rifle used in the robbery via US Attorney.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Paul Whooten, 59, to seven years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to holding up a Rockland Trust branch on Truman Parkway with a realistic-looking replica assault rifle on Dec. 21, 2019. Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/23 - 9:39 am
The Bay State Banner lists the City Council races that could have contested races this fall, including the four at-large seats and Districts 3 (Dorchester), 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale), 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, part of Mission Hill) and 7 (Roxbury).
By adamg - 6/7/23 - 11:33 am
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed William Earl's second-degree murder conviction, ruling his confession that he stabbed Samuel Constant to death in the Georgetown development in Hyde Park was coerced: Read more
By adamg - 5/30/23 - 11:07 am
A bit subtle, but Nova Scotia smoke over eastern Mass. at 12:36 p.m, via the GOES East satellite.
The National Weather Service office in Norton reports that smoke from raging fires north of Halifax has been blown down here. And unlike with the Alberta smoke, which stayed high up in the atmosphere: Read more.
By adamg - 5/26/23 - 11:20 am
Fighter jet over South Bay. Photo by Danny in Boston.
Shortly before 11 a.m., the pilot of a Massachusetts Air National Guard F-15 flew low over Hyde Park and Roslindale on the way to participate in the rededication of the Fallen Heroes Memorial on Northern Avenue in South Boston.
Danny in Boston videoed it as it passed over the South Bay mall, noted it's not every day you see a fighter jet over the mall: Read more.
By adamg - 5/25/23 - 11:21 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Tori Japan permission to move into the space where Crab du Jour replaced the Pizza Hut that replaced the Taco Bell, in the America's Food Basket mini-mall at at 950 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park. Read more.
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Recent Hyde Park crime
Gunfire at Hyde Park housing complex, 11/29/23
Woman shot in the head in Hyde Park, 11/24/23
Gunfire at busy Hyde Park intersection, 11/11/23