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By adamg - 3/2/16 - 1:05 pm

Boston city councilors are going to give Northeastern officials a second chance to show up and discuss their decision to equip the campus police force with high-powered weaponry. Read more.

By adamg - 2/29/16 - 9:35 am
Tsunami Ortiz

Tsunami Ortiz, 17 (right), was ordered held without bail today on charges he murdered D'Andre King-Settles, 17, shot to death on Dec. 18 at 60 Annunciation Rd., the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 2/26/16 - 7:14 am

The Boston Business Journal reports on a hearing by the Department of Public Health on Children's proposal for a $1-billion expansion that would include building atop what is now Prouty Garden:

Advocates for the Prouty Garden, which included several Children’s doctors, protested against any plans that would supplant the space, citing the ashes of children who died that have been scattered in the garden or parents who brought their children there for healing.

By adamg - 2/18/16 - 9:11 pm

UPDATE: WHDH reports the baby died.

Around 8:40 p.m. on Humboldt Avenue at Humboldt Court.

The baby was in such bad shape the homicide unit was called in, standard for collisions where somebody might die. The mother also suffered injuries.

The driver stayed at the scene.

By adamg - 2/16/16 - 2:53 pm
Architect's rendering of Tremont Crossing

Architect's rendering of proposed Tremont Crossing

The development team that has long had the rights to an empty parcel across from Boston police headquarters on Tremont Street have filed new plans that include 700 residential units, a 200-room hotel, a big-box store, smaller shops and a museum and performing-arts space. Read more.

By adamg - 2/12/16 - 4:08 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge has ordered a new trial for Joseph Cousin, convicted of second-degree murder for the 2002 death of Trina Persad, 10, because of a possible conflict of interest on his lawyer's part.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office is appealing the ruling. Read more.

By adamg - 2/11/16 - 7:37 am

The Crimson and the Bangkok Post report the issue is a Thai dentist who got a government loan for postgraduate work at Harvard Dental School on condition she return to Thailand to teach afterwards and then just stayed in the Boston area.

[T]housands of Facebook users in Thailand have repeatedly given Harvard one-star ratings and authored scathing criticisms of the University’s administration for allowing Jumlongras to remain at Harvard. Since Poonwithayakij’s Facebook post, Harvard’s Facebook rating has dropped to 2.3 stars. Several months ago, it was more than 4 stars, according to retrieved screenshots of the page.

By adamg - 2/7/16 - 2:35 pm
Marquis Waithe

Boston Police today identified the man shot to death on Brookledge Street in Roxbury on Thursday afternoon as Marquis Waithe, 22, of Roxbury. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/16 - 7:41 am

Boston Police report a man was shot at 55 Brookledge Rd. around 5:45 p.m. on Thursday. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died.

By adamg - 2/4/16 - 8:28 am
Carlos Henriquez for state rep

UPDATE: Henriquez tells WGBH he's still wrestling with the question of whether to run.

Former state Rep. Carlos Henriquez, who has maintained his innocence on the assault charge that got him sent to jail for six months and expelled from the House of Representatives, yesterday switched the header of his Facebook page to this image (although he's since switched that to another photo). Read more.

By adamg - 2/3/16 - 10:06 am

Victor Montes-Severino, 21, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment today on a charge of murder for the death of a Pennsylvania man whose body was found - with multiple stab wounds - by firefighters battling a five-alarm fire at 104 Winthrop St.

Data from the GPS device he was wearing at the time placed him at the scene, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges. Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/16 - 6:19 pm

Boston Police report the boy, 3, rushed to the hospital from 23 Alpine St. Sunday night with traumatic injuries, died today.

Police did not announce any arrests in the case. The Herald reports his family was under DCF supervision, and that DCF has removed another child from the home.

By adamg - 2/2/16 - 11:27 am

Around 10:45 a.m. at Annunciation Road and Albert Street; close enough to BPD headquarters that the single shot was heard inside the building.

By adamg - 1/31/16 - 11:22 pm

UPDATE: He died.

A 3-year-old was rushed to the hospital after being found unconscious at 23 Alpine St. around 9:45 p.m., Boston EMS Incidents reports.

The homicide unit was called in as a precaution due to the child's critical condition. The house was sealed while police awaited a search warrant.

By adamg - 1/31/16 - 9:15 pm

Around 9:05 p.m. at Washington Street and Walnut Park. Officers have recovered several shell casings. One resident reported hearing five shots.

By adamg - 1/30/16 - 11:33 am

Decorated BPD detective Brian Smigielski, 43, was sentenced to a year of probation and a $5,000 fine yesterday for alerting members of the violent Academy Homes gang that the FBI was after them and warning them when they were about to be arrested, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.

By adamg - 1/29/16 - 10:19 pm

Michael David Scott, 51, of Mansfield, pleaded guilty this week to one count of wire fraud for a real-estate scam he pulled while waiting trial for a condo-flipping scheme that ultimately landed him a prison sentence of more than 11 years. Read more.

By adamg - 1/29/16 - 12:37 pm

UPDATE, 1:10 p.m. Suspicious bag turned out to be full of harmless wires. Streets re-opened.

Francis Street is shut between Brookline Avenue and Binney Street to await the arrival of the bomb squad. Ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals.

By adamg - 1/27/16 - 1:34 pm
Tito Jackson speaks against proposed Grove Hall liquor store

Councilor Jackson led the charge against proposed liquor store as other residents waited to testify.

UPDATE: License request rejected.

Grove Hall residents and religious leaders packed the Boston Licensing Board hearing room today to urge the board to reject a license request for a Blue Hill Avenue liquor store.

The proposed Blue Hill Liquors, 438 Blue Hill Ave., is "absolutely tone deaf to the people of Grove Hall," City Councilor Tito Jackson said. Read more.

By adamg - 1/24/16 - 10:20 pm

The Warren Food Mart, 394 Warren St., was held up around 10:10 p.m. by a gun-wielding white man in his 20s, about 5'8" and wearing a black hoodie and a black jackets.

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