Steve Lynch (D-South Boston) went on NECN's Broadside tonight and told host Sue O'Connell that condemning the existing businesses at Widett Circle for a temporary 60,000-seat stadium is stupid and something he'll fight. Suffolk Downs might work, he says.
"I don't think you'll build a stadium for three weeks and then take it down," he said. "I really think it's a bad idea."
The Boston Licensing Board last week gave the owner of a South End pizzeria permission to open a new place on Columbia Road, next to the Strand Theatre. Read more.
At least four shots around 11:25 p.m. on Maxwell Street near Milton Avenue.
Around midnight on Westville Street at Boyd Street, midway between Bowdoin and Geneva. One car was hit.
Gang members used YouTube to send warnings to rival gangs - such as holding up court records with names of alleged snitches.
Around New Year's, FBI agents made some unusual phone calls: Warnings to members of a Dorchester gang to lay low because a leader of the rival Columbia Point Dawgs had been shot and was convinced they were behind it - and was vowing revenge. Read more.
John Duffill reports two people were shot around 8:45 p.m. at 64 Lawrence Ave. As those victims were being transported to a local hospital, police found a third victim, grazed by a bullet. None of the injuries appeared to be life threatening.
The Boston Preservation Alliance posts an interview with city archaeologist Joe Bagley. He brings us up to date on the archaeological digs in the front yard of Old City Hall (site of an even older home for Boston Latin School) - they've found the remains of a building, but which one? - and alerts us that his next major project will be at at the Epiphany School in Dorchester, looking for an outhouse that would have been in use when the site was home of the Industrial School for Girls in the mid-19th century.
At what has become a memorial for Dos Santos at Fuller and Washington.
A Dorchester Municipal Court judge today rejected arguments from lawyers for a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old that they posed no flight risk after being charged with gunning down another teen and ordered them held without bail.
In a tense courtroom, Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Jennifer Hickman said Raeshawn Moody, 14, and Dushawn Taylor-Gennis, 16, patiently waited at the intersection of Washington and Fuller streets Wednesday evening for Jonathan Dos Santos, 16. Read more.
Community members are organizing a peace rally and march tomorrow to the three sites in Dorchester and Mattapan where young people recently lost their lives. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting two teens, 14 and 16, on charges they shot Jonathan Dos Santos to death on Fuller Street on Wednesday. Read more.
Boston Police report officers responding to a report of gunfire arrived at 21 Dacia St around 3:25 a.m. in time to see a man "attempting to rack a black firearm as he fled the scene." Read more.
Jason Grover reports the driver of this car thought he'd come under fire this evening and was so shook up, he crashed his car at Columbia Road and Hamlet Street. In fact, it was fireworks, not gunfire, Grover - who said he got a whiff of that distinctive fireworks smell - says:
There were a series of sharp cracks that could have been mistaken for gunshots then our building shook.
The Dorchester Reporter reports Boston 2024 wants to shift tennis from its original location at Harvard to Harambee Park, conveniently located near a Fairmount Line stop.
The Herald interviews the father and other relatives of Jonathan Dos Santos, the teen shot to death as he rode a bike on Fuller Street last night.
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