Fenway

City Hall agreement paves way for return of burned out Fenway restaurants

adamg — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:58:02 -0500

The Globe reports a jawboning session called by City Councilor Mike Ross got the partners who own the burned Peterborough Street building to agree to rebuild - and to let the old restaurants back in.

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Kenmore Square much improved for folks in wheelchairs

adamg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:56:14 -0500

The Traveling Wheelchair reviews Kenmore Square:

...Once safely on the brick sidewalk, I found it plenty wide enough and fairly easy to wheel on the bricks. As we were about to cross the street at a pedestrian sidewalk, we were pleased to see there is a map with Braille for the blind to read; and the crosswalk made of brick which provides contrast and is easy to see if you are visually impaired like me. I like it because the brick will always stand out and not fade as painted white lines do. ...

The non-profit pot dealer

adamg — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:47:09 -0500

Huntington News reports that when Northeastern police asked a particular student about her alleged drug sales, "she admitted she supplied friends with drugs for money, but insisted that she was not a dealer because she didn't make enough profit."

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BU credit union held up at gunpoint

adamg — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:12:58 -0500

The Daily Free Press reports the University Credit Union, 846 Commonwealth Ave., was held up around noon yesterday, by a black man with a mustache and a gun.

DA: Fenway garage suspect should never have been let out of jail

adamg — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:15:13 -0500

Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley says his office tried to keep the man charged with beating a taxi dispatcher in a botched holdup in jail when he came up for parole - on charges he murdered an oil-delivery man in cold blood as a teenager during the Blizzard of '78.

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Suspect in failed Fenway taxi-garage holdup not going anywhere before his trial

adamg — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:09:58 -0500

The Globe reports on today's arraignment of Gerald Hill, one of the suspects in yesterday's Kilmarnock Street botched holdup who turns out to be a paroled murderer. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports his bail was set at $1 million. But his parole for killing an oil-delivery man during the Blizzard of '78 - which started in September - was revoked, which means that even if he has $1 million, he won't be getting out of jail before his trial, the DA's office says.

Innocent, etc.

Taxi dispatcher robbed at gunpoint in the Fenway

adamg — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:33:27 -0500

The Globe reports a dispatcher at Boston Cab on Kilmarnock Street was beaten and robbed at gunpoint by two men this morning. Boston Police tweet one suspect quickly apprehended but that the other remains at large, police say. The white Honda they used to get away was found on Ipswich Street.

Harvard Business students don't handle liquor well in heels - especially the men

adamg — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:04:19 -0500

The Crimson reports on the shame brought down on the Harvard Business School because of an altercation outside a party at a Lansdowne Street bar on Friday that ended with one student charged with assault and battery on a police officer and at least one injury: A "male student who badly cut his foot after removing his high heels."

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Police warn of zombies

adamg — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:06:18 -0400

Boston Police alert us that traffic around Landmark Center could be affected by zombies around 4:30 p.m. today. Motorists are advised to avoid the undead.

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Former Wentworth cops plead guilty to being yutzes

adamg — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:03:46 -0400

The two erstwhile officers at the Wentworth Institute of Technology got 30 days probation today for attempting to sell college GPS and surveying equipment on eBay, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Jonathan Carroll, Jr, 28, and Jay Cunha, 27, were charged with removing $40,000 worth of equipment from a storage unit and putting it up for sale. Unfortunately for them, another employee noticed the equipment was missing the very next day, the DA's office says. Other Wentworth officers checked out eBay to see if any of the equipment turned up there and then tracked the pair down by contacting somebody who made a successful $4,500 bid for one of the devices - a Trimble 5800 GPS.

The college was able to retrieve all of the missing equipment, the DA's office says.