At a press conference to announce the new interim BLS headmaster today, School Superintendent Tommy Chang said he will appoint an interim O'Bryant headmaster "in coming weeks." Read more.
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By adamg - 6/21/16 - 12:41 pm
Mayor Walsh's office said today it's setting up permanent City Hall outlets in Boston neighborhoods, starting tomorrow at the Tobin Community Center on Mission Hill. Read more.
By adamg - 6/20/16 - 11:46 pm
Around 11:30 p.m. in the area of Huntington Avenue and Mission Street. One was grazed in the hip.
By adamg - 5/29/16 - 8:43 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports a three-alarm fire tonight at 43 Iroquois St. did an estimated $500,000 in damage, but caused no injuries.
The fire, reported around 8:25 p.m., started on a rear first-floor porch, the department says, adding the cause is under investigation.
By adamg - 4/2/16 - 11:58 am
Boston Police report arresting Enrique Auch, 18, of Revere (right), for the shooting death of D'Andre King-Settles at 60 Annunciation Rd. on Dec. 18.
By adamg - 3/31/16 - 10:41 am
Chynah Tyler, a former aide to state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz and a Roxbury native, is running for the 7th Suffolk state representative's seat from which Gloria Fox is retiring this year.
Tyler unveiled her Web site today, although Politico reports she actually filed papers to run on March 16.
Also running: Monica Monique Cannon, also of Roxbury.
By adamg - 3/30/16 - 9:15 pm
The State House News Service reports that state Rep. Gloria Fox is retiring at the end of the year from the 7th Suffolk (Roxbury, Mission Hill, the Fenway) district she's represented since 1985.
By adamg - 2/16/16 - 4:58 pm
A developer wants to tear an old wooden house at Tremont and Sewall streets and include the facades of six neighboring row houses as the fronts for a new apartment complex that would include 33 apartments, including some rare four-bedroom units.
Developer Jason Savage, who has been building on Mission Hill for 16 years, says the project would include: Read more.
By adamg - 1/30/16 - 12:20 pm
Architect's rendering of what building would look like with no trolley tracks in front.
A developer wants to replace a couple of parking lots and a derelict old building with a six-story residential complex on South Huntington Avenue, next to the Wok N Talk near the intersection with Huntington Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 1/15/16 - 11:34 pm
Boston Police and friends identify the man found fatally shot inside 55 Fenwood Rd. on Wednesday as Eden Jacquet, 30.
Friends have set up a GoFundMe page to help his family, including his young daughter, Elaina.
By adamg - 1/13/16 - 11:46 pm
Boston Police report officers investigating an "unknown medical situation" at 55 Fenwood Rd. around 7:40 p.m. found a man with gunshot wounds. He was transported to a nearby hospital, where he died.
By adamg - 1/3/16 - 10:42 am
MadTy watched the sun come up this morning over Marina Bay from Morrissey Boulevard.
He wasn't the only one up early. Sharon McAuliffe watched the sun come up over the Longwood Medical Area and Mission Hill: Read more.
By adamg - 12/31/15 - 10:30 am
Lloyd's of London has sued the owner of a Mission Hill apartment building over a 2014 fire, apparently caused by a rooftop barbecue, to recover the money it had to pay out to the owners of a neighboring building.
In a lawsuit filed this week in US District Court in Boston, Lloyd's said it paid $79,434.70 to the owners of 25 Wigglesworth for damage from what turned into a two-alarm fire on June 30.
Lloyd's says the landlord was negligent in: Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/15 - 6:02 pm
Boston Police report Boston's latest homicide victim is D'Andre King-Settles, shot to death around 4 p.m. yesterday outside 60 Annunciation Rd. in the Alice Taylor project.
He was 17.
His older brother, Richard T. King Jr., was stabbed to death on Trotter Court in 2011, age 22. His father died in 2007, just 35. He leaves his mother, a brother and a sister.
By adamg - 11/7/15 - 8:38 am
Chris in Boston noticed a tree at Huntington and South Huntington avenues had a request for passersby this morning: Stop leaving trash around it.
Ed. note: Given its location, the tree should probably also be asking people to drive more carefully in the rain and not crash into it.
By adamg - 10/16/15 - 1:06 pm
Luis Bodden-Maximo and his girlfriend had just sat down for lunch at the Brigham Circle TGI Friday's on Sept. 16 when trouble walked in the door - in the form of an H-Block gang member in a hoodie,who rushed into the restaurant and stared at him, then ran out. Read more.
By adamg - 10/4/15 - 11:27 am
Stanley Staco reports a man was shot in the arm shortly after 4 a.m. on Parker Street near the rotary.
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