Shelisa Bittle, 26, of Somerville, whose arrest at the back of a T bus Friday was captured on video was released on personal recognizance today on at her arraignment in Roxbury Municipal Court on charges of larceny, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting Jason Bly, 35, for an outburst of gunfire at Ernst and Bragdon streets Saturday morning. Read more.
Transit Police are investigating the way a woman was arrested on a bus at Dudley station yesterday morning after she allegedly stole from another woman running a small pushcart at the station - but say an initial review shows the alleged thief is to blame for a commotion captured on video. Read more.
UPDATE: Arrest made.
Stanley Staco reports at least four rounds were fired around 11:20 a.m at Ernst and Bragdon streets, where Angel Oller and Andrew Reed were shot to death on Aug. 12. Police recovered a gun nearby on Walnut Park.
A concerned citizen notes (and photographs) the purple item on a Seaver Street sidewalk:
Discarded butt plug on ground in front of 260 seaver.
Jarvis passed by this ball of fire on the Expressway shortly after 3 p.m.
Jamie Walsh also saw the flames: Read more.
The BRA yesterday approved plans to turn a lot that has been vacant for four decades into 40 units of housing - and a "peace park" with walkways in the shape of a peace symbol at Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street. Read more.
The BRA board last night approved a refinancing plan for the Crosstown Center Hampton Inn on Mass. Ave. in which holders of the project's debt will simply write off a good chunk of the money it owes them. Read more.
Hundreds of people took part in this past weekend's Road to Wellness 5K Walk/Run through Roxbury.
Elizabeth Weinbloom, running for alderman in Somerville's Ward 6, has her own campaign song, a protest against rising rents performed by Amy Kucharik that harkens back to the original Charlie on the MTA - a campaign song for Walter O'Brien, the Progressive Party's candidate for Boston mayor in 1948.
Jackson, who dropped his first campaign song in 2009, updated his catalog this month with "The Tito Dance:" Read more.
Dudley scene. Photo by Casey.
Around 3:10 p.m. at Dudley and Mt. Pleasant streets. Dudley Street is shut and T buses are being rerouted.
Cambridge Police report Tywann Jones, 35, was stabbed around 1:40 a.m. outside the Central Square 7-Elevent at Mass. Ave. and Pleasant Street.
Jones was rushed to Mass. General, where he was pronounced dead around 4:40 a.m., police say.
Family members and friends are remembering Zachary Pinnick, who died in a shooting on Holworthy Street.
Meanwhile, organizers of the effort to greet Boston school students on their first day at school are planning a visit tomorrow to the nearby Trotter School so that students there get to see smiling faces. Read more.
A federal grand jury has indicted two former workers at Roxse Homes on charges they placed ineligible people in subsidized apartments in exchange for payments of up to $7,000. Read more.
Stanley Staco reports somebody was shot around 4:40 a.m. on Holworthy Street. At least ten shots fired. Boston Police report the man, in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene, in front of 56 Holworthy.
Across the city this morning, scores of black men lined the entrances to Boston public schools to welcome kids on their first day of school this year, in a program thought up by former state Rep. Carlos Henriquez - after reading about it being done in other cities. Here, kids enter the Dearborn STEM School in Roxbury: Read more.
Dianne Wilkerson, president of The Friends of the Melnea Cass Facility, Inc., lays out what she knows about the gunfire outside the facility during a memorial for Angel Oller on Aug. 17 that amazingly ended with no injuries among the scores of children and mourners present.
Despite the fact that the Cass is a state-owned building where the Mass. State Police have jurisdiction, they were never notified of the plan to hold the memorial service in the Cass. We know that the comments from law enforcement right after the murder of Oller stated it was gang involved. We know that there have been no arrests to date for his murder. We also know that Oller’s aunt, a BPD officer, is on video receiving a gun from a young man in the aftermath of the shooting at the Cass. Really weakens the suggestion that the bad actors all set upon the Cass in a random act.
What we don’t know is how any rational, responsible adult could have concluded that the Cass was an appropriate site to hold a memorial service, in a building with little children, without security, for a victim of a gang involved murder.
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