Agents from a variety of federal law-enforcement agencies and Boston Police today swept up more than 40 alleged members of the Heath Street gang, based at the Mildred Hailey apartments in Jamaica Plain, on charges that range from drug dealing and being a felon in possession of a firearm to committing RICO violations.
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Jamaica Plain News reports the Arnold Arboretum lost some 40 "accessioned" trees, including a dozen hemlocks snapped in half - by a storm in December that brought both rain to already saturated soil and high winds.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 3557 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain for a fire on the second floor around 9:55 a.m. Read more.
People in the Jamaica Plain Facebook group report that Momo Masala, which serves both Nepali momo dumplings and Indian food - has opened in the Hyde Square space where the Haven used to be. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Washington Pearson, 56, of Lynn to 16 to 18 years in state prison following his conviction for breaking into an Arborway home in 2022 and, while armed with a large flathead screwdriver, strangling one of the women who lived there, sexually attacking her, then strangling again before running out with jewelry and other items, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Pearson to be sent away again.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Washington Pearson, 56, of Lynn, with a criminal record that dates to 1987, on charges he broke into a home on the Arborway in 2022, strangled one of the women living there into unconsciousness, sexually attacked her, strangled her again and then made off with her phone and jewelry, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Jamaica Plain News reports the death of Ron Hafer, who, in addition to helping lead the fight against the Southwest Expressway, founded Urban Edge and participated in the March to Selma.
Transit Police report a 14-year-old-girl told officers she was sexually assaulted and threatened with a knife around 4 p.m. on Monday at Forest Hills. The next day, a teen, too young to be named because of his age, was arrested for the attack, police say.
A Jamaica Plain man was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison yesterday after admitting he convinced a 13-year-old girl in Ohio to send him nude photos and engage in sexual activity via video chat - while he was on probation for his conviction on a series of similar sexual charges involving children. Read more.
A couple of Boston park rangers used the hitching post in front of the Jamaica Pond gazebo to get their steeds ready for some hoofing around the pond this afternoon.
At 9:27 a.m., the MBTA reported Orange Line delays due to a prematurely deceased new Orange Line train at Forest Hills, a day after another new Orange Line train refused to leave Forest Hills.
Handmaid got a good view of this morning's sunrise over Morton Street and the Arborway in Forest Hills.
Mary Ellen got a good view of those clouds, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Read more.
Bright and early at 6:28 a.m., the MBTA reported one of its new Springfield specials on the Orange Line refused to budge from Forest Hills. The train has since been shoved out of the way.
Jamaica Plain News talks to Eversource about what caused Thursday night's outage in Jamaica Plain, which at its peak took out power to more than 4,400 residences and businesses.
Update, 10:50 a.m. Eversource says it's restored almost all the power, except to 10 customers.
Around 9 p.m., the lights began blinking out in Jamaica Plain. As of 9:35, Eversource is reporting 4,438 homes and businesses in Boston without power, most of them in JP, and most of those clustered in the area between Jamaica Pond, the Arboretum and Franklin Park, about as far north as Parley Avenue and Green Street. Read more.
It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.
Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.
A scared citizen files a 311 complaint about the northbond stretch of Centre Street that is really the parkway where houses sit in front of the Arboretum just before the Giant Rotary of Doom in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
Via Jamaica Plain and Roslindale Facebook groups comes the news that Cafe Beirut on Centre Street closed for good yesterday. Read more.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about one of the clock faces in the tower at the Forest Hills MBTA station: Read more.
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