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By adamg - 5/18/15 - 1:08 pm
Walker Park proposal

Architect's rendering of one of the Walker Park buildings.

Urban Edge Housing Corp. is seeking BRA permission to put up 49 apartments in two buildings on what are now three lots on Walnut Park and Columbus Avenue. Read more.

By adamg - 5/12/15 - 4:01 pm

Huran Delismail, 22, was charged today with smashing into a pole early this morning at the Riverway and Brookline Avenue and sending his three passengers to local ERs - one with injures that were considered life threatening - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 5/12/15 - 7:39 am
Dinari and Kamaia - new lions at the Franklin Park Zoo

The Franklin Park Zoo announced yesterday it's obtained two lions to replace Christopher, who died of old age last month. Read more.

By adamg - 5/11/15 - 11:17 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man they describe as a gun-toting gang member after a foot chase this morning - a little more than a week after he was shot in an apparent gun battle that left a street littered with 19 shell casings. Read more.

By adamg - 5/11/15 - 3:29 pm
Nevin King

Boston Police report the man found shot to death outside 67 Winthrop St. in Roxbury on Thursday was Nevin King, 24.

By adamg - 5/10/15 - 11:05 pm

Around 10:40 p.m. Police and paramedics found him in a car at Washington and E. Lenox streets.

By adamg - 5/8/15 - 2:41 pm

Around 2:35 p.m. at Warren and Dudley streets.

By adamg - 5/8/15 - 11:10 am

Around 10:45 a.m. at Gerard and Island streets, behind the Roundhouse hotel.

By adamg - 5/7/15 - 8:56 am

The Bay State Banner reports on concerns about a developer putting up new residential buildings in Roxbury.

By adamg - 5/7/15 - 7:44 am

Stanley Staco reports the 24-year-old was shot around 4 a.m. on Winthrop Street between Whiting and Fairland. Boston Police report the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

By adamg - 5/6/15 - 4:43 pm

Shaun Harrison, 55, a minister and counselor in Boston schools, was ordered held in lieu of $400,000 bail today at his arraignment on charges of armed assault with intent to murder, aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, two counts of unlawful possession of ammunition, possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony ... Read more.

By adamg - 5/3/15 - 1:50 pm

UPDATE: Mayor Walsh also got involved. His Roxbury liaison, Kaira Fox e-mailed neighborhood groups and other elected officials on Friday: "I wanted to let you know, the Mayor has heard the complaints and reached out to Clear Channel personnally to ask that they change the billboard. The City does not have control over the content of Billboards, but agrees this is in very poor taste to have in our neighborhood."

By Anonymous - 5/3/15 - 12:45 pm

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By adamg - 5/2/15 - 3:57 pm

Shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Walnut between Martin Luther King Boulevard behind Malcolm X Park and the Lewis School.

By adamg - 5/1/15 - 8:33 pm

A former Boston cop got a year's probation and a $2,000 fine after admitting he lied to FBI agents investigating whether he had given information about an ongoing investigation of the the Academy Homes Street gang in Roxbury to a member of the gang.

Mel Steele, 36, was a member of the BPD's Youth Violence Task Force - its gang unit - who was also a longtime friend of a member of the gang. The US Attorney's office in Boston says:

By adamg - 5/1/15 - 6:41 am

Boston Cop Waves Gun in Videographer's Face

WHDH reports on the Roxbury incident.

By adamg - 4/30/15 - 4:23 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today rejected a request by one Blue Hill Avenue liquor store to sell nips and approved the sale of another store near that one on the condition its new owners not sell the tiny bottles, either.

By adamg - 4/30/15 - 7:34 am

Baltimore Solidarity March - South End of Boston

The Herald reports on last night's protest march of about 1,000 people.

By adamg - 4/29/15 - 11:50 am

Residents and the owners of a Blue Hill Avenue liquor store duked it out this morning over the store's request to start selling nips, at a hearing before the Boston Licensing Board.

The board decides tomorrow whether to let Blue Hill Liquors, 108 Blue Hill Ave., sell the tiny bottles.

The store's attorney, Ethan Schaff, said the store needs the nips to stay in business. He said that when the current owners took over the store two years ago, they agreed to a ban on nips to show the neighborhood they could clean the place up and run a respectable business.

By adamg - 4/29/15 - 7:55 am

Starts at 6 p.m. in front of BPD headquarters on Tremont Street, near Ruggles.

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