A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted an Everett man for involuntary manslaughter in the beating and stabbing murder of Ricardo Garcia at Allerton and Peirson streets on Aug. 8, 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report officers investigating a report of gunfire at Warren Street and Blue Hill Avenue around 2:45 a.m. quickly spotted and stopped a man leaving the scene and "visibly out of breath." Read more.
The Sportsman's Warehouse page for one of the guns Brunson allegedly bought at its Columbia, SC store.
Two men, one from South Carolina, one from Roxbury, face federal charges for the way they allegedly shipped guns here - for resale to, among others, gang members and teenagers - the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Imagine all these lights blinking on and off over and over and over.
A concerned citizen files a 311 report about the blinking lights along Chester Park on Massachusetts Avenue: Read more.
Screen captures from one parent's phone of the message parents got.
Police ordered Boston Latin Academy into "safe" mode early this afternoon after a parent reported her daughter had just called her to tell her another student was inside the school with a gun. Read more.
Surveillance photo via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say pulled a knife on a security guard who tried to keep him from walking out of Tropical Foods, 450 Melnea Cass Blvd. with items he hadn't paid for Sunday afternoon. Read more.
Trevor Michaels spotted a Masshole inbound on Tremont Street at Ruggles this morning. He adds:
This dipshit nearly cut me off because they were in the wrong lane and turned left in that incorrect lane.
Madison Park High School and the O'Bryant School, which are next to each other on Malcolm X Boulevard in Roxbury, went into "safe" mode Friday afternoon because of what school officials say was a swatting: Somebody called Boston Police to report somebody was on the grounds of one of the schools with a gun, only when police arrived, they determined it was a hoax. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today rejected a request from Cristian Market, 411 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall, to add beer to its inventory, because of overwhelming opposition from nearby residents about the already easy access to beer at six other stores within a half mile. Read more.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the Jan. 14 closing of the Walgreens at 416 Warren St. in Roxbury: Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a man on gun charges following a foot chase in the area of Dudley and Shirley streets in Roxbury around 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
Amanda the roving UHub photographer spotted Santa Squirrel outside the Dudley Street firehouse in Nubian Square today.
Boston firefighters responded to a six-unit duplex at 20 Rockville Park in Roxbury around 7:15 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.
TheBostonLOL forwards this photo of a tiny tree in Franklin Park that somebody wrapped with a blue tree skirt and decorated with a single red ornament, just like Charlie Brown would do.
Eversource map showing outages in Roxbury, South End at 11 p.m.
Update 11 p.m.: The number of businesses and homes without power is up to 7,959.
Eversource reports a series of power outages from just north of Franklin Park up to Boston Medical Center and areas near Tremont and Dartmouth street to the turnpike. Some 204 business and homes were blacked out as of 10:05 p.m. - as well as traffic and street lights.
In 1856 or thereabouts, A.H. Folsom photographed the northwest corner of the intersection of Warren and Dudley streets in Roxbury.
The view of that corner today: Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a South Boston man on charges he held up La Familia market, 64A Blue Hill Ave. at Moreland Street in Roxbury around 10:35 a.m. on Monday. Read more.
Boston Police report charging Christopher Meade, 30, of Malden, for a shooting on Clifford Street in Roxbury that sent a man to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds around 3:50 a.m. on Dec. 4. Read more.
Rendering by Stantec. See it larger.
The group working to bring professional women's soccer to Boston yesterday filed detailed plans for its part of the overhaul of the decaying, fire-ravaged White Stadium in Franklin Park, which includes a new soccer pitch, replacement of bleachers with individual seats, a separate dining area including room for food trucks, a year-round restaurant and a beer garden and overhanging shade over the seats designed as an homage to the surrounding greenery. Read more.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a liquor license to the operators of the proposed Jazz Urbane Cafe in the Bolling Building in Nubian Square. Read more.
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