Victim identified as Dion Ruiz.
Boston Police report a man was shot outside 58 West Dedham St. in the South End around 10 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
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By adamg - 8/11/22 - 4:14 pm
A man indicted 2 1/2 years ago for raping and murdering a woman in a South End hotel in 1980 was finally transported to Boston today for his arraignment, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 8/4/22 - 2:11 pm
A Boston Police officer and a state trooper posing as prostitutes Tuesday night into Wednesday snared 13 men who tried to pick them up for sex at Mass and Cass - offering to pay in either cash or drugs - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 7/27/22 - 1:12 pm
The owners of 24 condos at 88 and 90 Wareham St. in the South End are suing the developer, its real-estate agent and the manufacturer and installer of their building's car-stacking garage system, which they say has never worked right and which they say folded itself into complete unusability a couple months ago. Read more.
By adamg - 7/14/22 - 9:42 am
WFXT reports the owner of New Market Pizza - in the unusual domed building at Mass and Cass - went outside yesterday afternoon to stop some guy who was throwing things at the windows after being ejected and wound up getting hit in the head with a metal object, which opened up a gash that required stitches to close.
By adamg - 7/12/22 - 2:08 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today unanimously approved developers' plans to retain the shell of the former Alexandra Hotel on the Roxbury/South End line as cladding for a new 13-story condo building. Read more.
By adamg - 7/8/22 - 9:16 am
Bird-enhanced rendering by SGA.
Two developers have filed plans with the BPDA for their proposed five-story life-sciences building at 65-69 Wareham St. in the South End, in what would be the latest outpost in a life-sciences corridor along Albany Street. Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/22 - 9:49 pm
Updated with status of the Clougherty Pool in Charlestown.
WHDH reports the Boston Centers for Youth and Families says it wasn't able to find enough lifeguards to staff pools in the South End, Jamaica Plain and Dorchester. A fifth pool, the Clougherty in Charlestown, will stay closed due to safety issues: Read more.
By adamg - 6/13/22 - 10:48 am
A shocked resident of East Concord Street in the South End filed a 311 complaint about what he or she saw when looking out from their flat Saturday night:
Big Raccoon on roof spotted from building across the alley.
By adamg - 6/7/22 - 10:16 pm
Claudia Pouravelis reports what happened on Waltham Street in the South End around 6 p.m.
Scariest sound of my life. Crash outside 6pm playground full of children. Huge tree just fell over on Waltham in South End for no apparent reason. Cars damaged but no one hurt - thank God.
By adamg - 5/31/22 - 2:02 pm
Michael Spicher spotted some geese littles taking advantage of a puddle near the Expressway and the narrow end of Fort Point Channel that splits the South End from South Boston today. Amy Deveau, who lives nearby, though, is not liking the scene:
this stresses me out. I helped escort a family of geese under 93 and stopped traffic in both directions and when we all made it to the other side I burst into tears. I hope these lil guys make it back to the channel.
By adamg - 5/27/22 - 10:28 pm
What began as a shutdown of the roads in Franklin Park Thursday nights through Sunday mornings has now expanded to numerous other street across Boston, BPD reports. Read more.
By adamg - 5/26/22 - 4:10 pm
A man in his car on Northampton Street outside Boston Medical Center was robbed Tuesday afternoon by two men who jumped into his car - with one of them removing his key while the other put him in a chokehold, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 5/24/22 - 1:09 pm
Mayor Wu today announced the city's "warm weather" plan to deal with Mass and Cass: Basically, more services decentralized across the city, with transportation to get people from the troubled intersection to new "day centers" in other neighborhoods. Read more.
By adamg - 5/16/22 - 9:27 am
A pair of developers say they will soon file plans to replace five rundown buildings and a parking lot on Wareham and Plympton streets with a five-story life-sciences building - with ground-floor retail. Read more.
By adamg - 5/5/22 - 1:53 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today took no action on requests by the owners of Boston Chops on Washington Street in the South End to sell their liquor license to a proposed parmigiana-based restaurant in Copley Place - and to then transfer the liquor license from their closed Boston Chops on Temple Place downtown to the Washington Street restaurant - because of a lawsuit by their Temple Place landlord. Read more.
By adamg - 4/28/22 - 12:01 pm
A Mattapan man charged with selling crack and fentanyl he was storing in plastic bags clenched in his buttocks at Mass and Cass could lose the $1,401 police say they found in his jacket pockets at booking. Read more.
By adamg - 4/26/22 - 12:18 pm
BPD responded in force to the train station. Photo by Night Ridah.
Gavin Schoch reports one man was found stabbed on Topeka Street while another was found stabbed by police following a blood trail to the Newmarket commuter-rail station, around 9:30 a.m.
By adamg - 4/23/22 - 5:52 pm
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about some graffiti at Lawrence and Clarendon streets - and about the State of the City today:
Menino wouldn't have let this happen.
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Recent South End crime
Man stabbed at Mass and Cass, 7/6/23