A former Revere man now living in Florida was sentenced this week to 29 months in federal prison for applying for - and getting - a $2.5 million Covid-19 payment for the 154 employees he didn't have in his Massachusetts painting company, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter talks to John Dunlap, Jr., who has expanded the offerings at his Dorchester Used Bicycle and Thrift Shop to include custom-written poetry for any occasion.
The owner of the Andrew Square building where Tyler Falconer used to run a dog training and boarding facility yesterday sued him for the rent he stopped paying when he was charged with animal cruelty and shut his business. Read more.
A perturbed citizen files a 311 complaint about the scooter situation in the Back Bay: Read more.
From the complaint: The less bloody of the two Miss Lizzie's Coffee signs.
The operator of the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River has an axe to grind with the way the owner of a new coffeehouse next door named the place Miss Lizzie's Coffee and put up signs with blood-drenched hatchets. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Lina Ghantous permission to start selling beer and wine at her Welcome Buddy convenience store at 4196 Washington St. in Roslindale. Read more.
A South Hadley man last week filed what he hopes will be a class action against Mapfre USA over the way hackers obtained personal information for Massachusetts drivers from its get-a-quote Web site. Read more.
A judge in Boston federal court today sentenced Vladislav Klyushin, who ran a Moscow online consulting firm, to nine years in prison for running a hacking scheme that netted him and his employees $93 million by making stock trades on companies whose financial data they obtained before the information was made public. Read more.
The John B. Cruz Construction Co. yesterday sued Beacon Communities over the way it charges Beacon pushed it out of a project to rebuild the Boston Housing Authority's 357-unit Lenox/Camden complex in Roxbury. Read more.
Mapfre Insurance is notifying customers that somebody was able to get into its "online quoting platform" for Massachusetts residents last month and retrieve information about Massachusetts residents and their cars. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Secretary of State Bill Galvin did nothing wrong in accusing online investment firm Robinhood of giving bad investment advice to the online poor to enrich itself. Read more.
Steve Cooper posts video of one store owner running across Charles Street to rip the spray paint out of the hand of a daylight tagger (audio is NSFW).
Star said it would leave her alone, then didn't, based on her texts.
A woman who says she is fed up with the weekly messages Star Market sends her about sales and stuff yesterday sued the chain under a federal law that's requires marketers give consumers an actual way to opt out. Read more.
A Macy's with no escalators.
Macy's says it will be opening a micro-Macy's at the South Bay mall next month. Read more.
1001 Boylston on the left, with new turnpike scenic overlook.
The Lego Group announced today it's leased five stories at 1001 Boylston St. - the new tower at Boylston and Mass Ave. - and expects to begin moving its US corporate operations there from Enfield, CT. starting in the middle of 2025. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board last week approved Niki Mitchell's application to tell fortunes at 205 Portland St. near North Station.
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Rendering of the view from the roof of Lissa's Beauty Bar across the street, by Lucio Trabucco.
Baker Street Market owner Louis Dakoyannis tonight showed neighbors his proposal to replace the store at the corner of Baker and Vermont streets in West Roxbury with a four-story, 14-unit condo building that would also have ground-floor space for a new convenience store - but one about a third the size of his current market. Read more.
A Dorchester woman admitted Friday she stole more than $100,000 in a year from people applying to rent apartments in Hyde Park, Dorchester and Roxbury by charging them twice as much for security deposits as her employer normally would, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
An East Boston man who lives right above the now closed Maverick House Tavern on Maverick Street at Bremen Street, says he is getting it ready to re-open next month as a Latino-themed restaurant with consulting help from another local restaurant operator - who could take over as the place's manager if he works out. Read more.
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