City Councilor Kendra Lara (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill) says she's fed up with what she considers the "homophobic and transphobic rhetoric" from Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown), Michael Flaherty (at large) and Erin Murphy (at large) in the days after first responders found a dead man in a Mary Ellen McCormack apartment. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant beer-and-wine licenses to two long-time markets - the East Broadway Market at 869 East Broadway at O Street in South Boston and the Beacon Hill Market, 55 Anderson St. at Myrtle Street on Beacon Hill.
The board's hearings on the two applications this morning were as varied as the neighborhoods themselves. Read more.
The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that a short circuit on one of the Red Line's older trains led to Robinson Lalin getting stuck in a door as the train pulled out of Broadway station on April 10, 2022, but that other systems that might have prevented his death also failed him - including one that actually worked as it was intended to. Read more.
A man ordered out of a car that was wanted in connection with a Roxbury shooting in 2019 can't be charged for possession of the loaded gun police found on him because officers didn't have probable cause to search him, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today. Read more.
Boston Police tonight are painting a different picture of the conditions inside an apartment at 381 Old Colony Ave. in which they found a dead body Saturday morning than the one that had percolated in the local media and prompted condemnations by, among others, City Councilors Ed Flynn and Michael Flaherty. Read more.
A South Boston citizen files a 311 complaint about furry things scurrying about the area of L and East 6th streets that are the size of bunnies but aren't bunnies: Read more.
The Herald reports what police found inside an apartment at the Mary Ellen McCormack development.
Beacon Broadside recounts how Beacon Press came to publish the first bound volume of the Pentagon Papers after Daniel Ellsberg leaked them and Sen. Mike Gravel tried to find a publisher for them, in 1971. Read more.
The owner of a single-family home on East Broadway in South Boston yesterday sued to block construction of a new two-family house and the additions of dormers and an extension to an existing home on an East 4th Street lot that touches his property at a single point, arguing the construction would mean more noise, overcrowding and shadows, and less air, light, privacy and property value for him. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports the Curley Community Center is scheduled to re-open for self-workouts next week, with some classes and other programming to start June 20. A major overhaul of the center, also known as the L Street Bathhouse, was delayed by pandemic-caused supply-chain problems and disputes between City Hall and contractors.
Brooks Payne took in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in the Seaport today. He adds that when he got there, the winds were gusting to 28 m.p.h. Read more.
Crews on BFD, BPD, Massport and State Police boats began searching for a person in the water off Castle Island around 9 p.m.. Then State Police found witnesses who reported they saw a distraught man on the rocks about halfway between Castle Island and the Sugar Bowl rotunda - but that they were able to talk him out of going in.
Fighter jet over South Bay. Photo by Danny in Boston.
Shortly before 11 a.m., the pilot of a Massachusetts Air National Guard F-15 flew low over Hyde Park and Roslindale on the way to participate in the rededication of the Fallen Heroes Memorial on Northern Avenue in South Boston.
Danny in Boston videoed it as it passed over the South Bay mall, noted it's not every day you see a fighter jet over the mall: Read more.
The MBTA does not say if it fixed a recalcitrant door on a Red Line train at Andrew, or just hauled the poor train away, but says service is back to what passes for normal these days.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that MassDOT went too far in telling the owner of a small parcel between Cypher and B streets that it was just going to build tracks and facilities for testing new Red Line cars on the land with no compensation whatsoever. Read more.
Banker & Tradesman reports the Barking Crab on Fort Point Channel is seeking state permission to add a 1,900-square-foot barge to increase its patio seating.
WFXT reports State Police have recovered the body of Mohemed Fofena, who disappeared yesterday at Castle Island, on nearby Spectacle Island.
Update: Body found on Spectacle Island.
Police and fire crews began searching the waters off Castle Island Sunday night for Mohemed Fofena, of South Boston, who has autism and is non-verbal. Read more.
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