Couple with gun and Belaire champagne, from FBI affidavit.
Drug and gun charges announced Wednesday against a Malden couple may be only the start of a federal crackdown on what investigators say is an increasingly violent drug-fueled gang war north of Boston in which gangs have been acquiring machine guns to spray rivals and rival turf with bullets. Read more.
WBUR reports Curtatone made the announcement today; did not say if he'll be running for governor instead.
The Boston Institute for Non-Profit Journalism has launched Somerville Wire to cover the city of 80,000.
The Attleboro Sun Chronicle reports Rick Woodruff, 36, faces charges for allegedly driving into a Hobby Lobby in a local strip mall around 5 a.m.
A judge today dismissed a man's request to toss a gun found without a warrant in a Somerville apartment as evidence against him, saying he lost his privacy rights to the contents of the box the gun was in after the apartment's occupant kicked him out. Read more.
A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by Jonathan Monsarrat over postings in a Somerville community forum, saying the forum's moderator did nothing wrong or defamatory when he moved the entire discussion group from a server owned by Russians to one based in the US. Read more.
The FBI's Violent Crime Task Force has posted photos of the guy they say robbed the East Cambridge Savings Bank branch at 285 Highland Ave. in Somerville on Monday. Read more.
Jessica Burko captures the scene.
Tim Devin captured a more optimistic kid in an igloo in Lincoln Park in Somerville: Read more.
Sarah Gottlieb asks:
What Somerville/Boston area local creamery makes the best peppermint stick ice cream? It’s urgent
Tim Devin spotted this bird on Spring Hill in Somerville today, has a question:
OK, Internet, what the hell is this?
Somerville turkey likes donuts, takes no guff from cops. Photo by Greg Cook.
After a turkey family visited his family backyard, Greg Cook began to wonder what the deal is with all these turkeys in the Boston area. He wound up interviewing Jim Cardoza of MassWildlife, who led the effort to restore wild turkeys to Massachusetts in the 1970s, a century after they'd been hunted to extinction here.
MassDOT announced today it's re-opening the HOV lane on I-93 southbound to help deal with the congestion that's been returning to local highways since the spring - after the Conservation Law foundation threatened a lawsuit. Read more.
The challenges faced by the Boston housing market have been well documented in 2020. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in urban population distribution in metropolitan areas all across the country, and Boston is no exception. It effectively took one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets and caused it to come to a grinding halt as apartment vacancies soar all over the city.
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