The Daily Free Press reports the ten were all students at local institutions of higher learning, what with increased patrols in the area, especially in the GAP (Gardner, Ashford and Pratt streets).
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By adamg - 1/19/13 - 11:31 am
Police are investigating three separate robberies of BU students overnight, one involving a big-nosed white guy with a gun.
BU Today reports a female BU student and two companions were held up at gunpoint around 12:15 a.m. at St. Paul and Thatcher streets in Brookline by two white men, one of them about 6'2" in a white hoodie and a black jacket, who held a gun and had a prominent proboscis. The other guy is about 6', thick, wearing a black jacket with a scarf over his face.
By adamg - 1/11/13 - 3:45 pm
A manhole fire right at Brighton and Harvard avenues has caused power outages in the area. The city is also urging motorists to avoid the area, unless they like sitting in gridlock.
By adamg - 1/9/13 - 8:02 pm
A federal appeals court once again upheld efforts by Massachusetts lawmakers to protect patients at abortion clinics and rejected the latest legal challenge by people who say they have a First Amendment right to get in the face of women entering the clinics.
By adamg - 1/8/13 - 6:27 am
Foodler now offers hard-partying Allston residents condoms for delivery right to their door. Also: beer-pong supplies, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., daily.
H/t Riptor.
By adamg - 1/3/13 - 8:12 am
Scott Matalon, owner of Stingray Body Art, yesterday filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the city of Boston and several Boston police officers he says burst into his home while he was sleeping on Sept. 29, 2010, saying they were investigating a robbery and that when he objected, tackled him, forced him to the floor and then arrested him.
Matalon is seeking compensation for the $56,000 in legal bills he says he incurred successfully fighting charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest - but also to force the Boston Police Department to better train its officers.
By adamg - 1/2/13 - 8:57 am
Friends and Cape Cod Today are identifying the man stabbed to death at an Allston party early yesterday as Tony Spaulding, 21, of Harwich.
Spaulding was a student at the New England Institute of of Art in Brookline and had an interest in music production.
Brian MacDonald, 24, of Allston was arraigned in Brighton District Court today on a murder charge and ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bail, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which provided this account:
By adamg - 1/1/13 - 10:03 am
5 p.m. update: Boston Police report arresting Brian MacDonald, 24, of Allston, for the murder of Tony Spaulding. MacDonald will be arraigned tomorrow in Brighton District Court.
By adamg - 12/28/12 - 11:44 am
Police are looking for a guy who took $100 from a customer at a convenience store on Brighton Avenue in Allston this morning, then walked out - since he doesn't work there. White guy, about 6' tall.
By adamg - 12/22/12 - 12:20 pm
The federal government yesterday sued Yi Soon Bakery, 112 Brighton Ave., on charges it sold 30 pounds of uninspected meat to a Thai market in Lowell after being told repeatedly to knock it off.
By adamg - 12/20/12 - 8:57 am
The Crimson reports on a recent meeting of a Harvard/Allston community task force. It did not go well.
By adamg - 12/16/12 - 7:38 pm
Meet HappySpeedy.com, which delivers convenience-store stuff to you up to 2 a.m., if you live in the student-heavy sections of Boston, or Brookline, Newton Center, Newtonville or, of course, 02138 and 02139.
Via Boston Tweet.
By adamg - 12/15/12 - 12:07 pm
Boston University yesterday sued companies in the US and Taiwan that make and sell LED lights it says infringes on a patent it holds.
By adamg - 12/12/12 - 11:23 am
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Beantown Pizzeria, 270 Babcock St., stay open until 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
Steven Parnagian, lawyer for the pizza place, told the board this morning that the store, tucked into the heavily BUish Gardner Street area, is losing business now with its current midnight closing time. He said the owner comes in first thing Saturday and Sunday morning to find his voice mail full of missed calls from people desiring pies between midnight and 2 a.m. He added other nearby eateries are open until 2 a.m. already.
By adamg - 12/11/12 - 7:58 pm
A colonial mile marker that somehow survived being on Harvard Avenue for almost 2 1/2 centuries before being sheared in two last year is no longer surrounded by a fence thanks to efforts by preservationists and the city to repair it, set it back more and install a couple of protective bollards.
By adamg - 12/11/12 - 7:41 am
Man, you know how those sex wedges are, taking up all that space. Craigslist ad of the week:
By adamg - 12/8/12 - 3:37 pm
A roving UHub photographer snapped a Green Line rider talking a bunch on his bananaphone today.
By adamg - 12/6/12 - 9:05 am
Truck involved in collision. Photo by Mike Juergens.
UPDATE: BU Today reports the bicylist was Christopher Weigl, 23, of Southborough, who was pursuing a master's degree in photojournalism at BU. His Web site.
A bicyclist did not survive a collision this morning with a semi at Comm. Ave. inbound at St. Paul St..
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