A federal judge has sentenced a member of the Sinaloa cartel who set up housekeeping in East Boston to ten years after he pleaded guilty to distributing heroin and cocaine from Maverick Square to Hyde Park - sometimes with his wife and young children in tow. Read more.
City Council President Ed Flynn has some thoughts on Councilor Kendra Lara's car crash and Councilor Ricardo Arroyo's ethics fine last week: Read more.
The state Ethics Commission reported yesterday that City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) has paid a $3,000 fine for not withdrawing as a lawyer, after his election, from the lawsuit his brother, former City Councilor and mayoral aide Felix Arroyo, filed against the city over his firing. Read more.
Nothing like pulling into the Wolcott Square Dunkin' Donuts for a couple of breakfast sandwiches and seeing a freight train slowly rolling past on the Fairmount Line tracks above you. Read more.
Photo of replica assault rifle used in the robbery via US Attorney.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Paul Whooten, 59, to seven years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to holding up a Rockland Trust branch on Truman Parkway with a realistic-looking replica assault rifle on Dec. 21, 2019. Read more.
The Bay State Banner lists the City Council races that could have contested races this fall, including the four at-large seats and Districts 3 (Dorchester), 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale), 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, part of Mission Hill) and 7 (Roxbury).
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed William Earl's second-degree murder conviction, ruling his confession that he stabbed Samuel Constant to death in the Georgetown development in Hyde Park was coerced: Read more
A bit subtle, but Nova Scotia smoke over eastern Mass. at 12:36 p.m, via the GOES East satellite.
The National Weather Service office in Norton reports that smoke from raging fires north of Halifax has been blown down here. And unlike with the Alberta smoke, which stayed high up in the atmosphere: Read more.
Fighter jet over South Bay. Photo by Danny in Boston.
Shortly before 11 a.m., the pilot of a Massachusetts Air National Guard F-15 flew low over Hyde Park and Roslindale on the way to participate in the rededication of the Fallen Heroes Memorial on Northern Avenue in South Boston.
Danny in Boston videoed it as it passed over the South Bay mall, noted it's not every day you see a fighter jet over the mall: Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Tori Japan permission to move into the space where Crab du Jour replaced the Pizza Hut that replaced the Taco Bell, in the America's Food Basket mini-mall at at 950 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park. Read more.
Boston Police responded to the intersection of Central Avenue and Dell Street in Hyde Park after somebody fired three or four shots shortly after 6 p.m. Read more.
Most developers don't need to be told twice, but the BPDA has yet again rejected a proposal by a Dallas firm to construct a nine-building, 270-unit apartment complex on what is now a heavily wooded hillside on American Legion Highway next to the Stop & Shop strip mall. Read more.
More smoke from wildfires on the Canadian plains gave us another hazy sunrise this morning, as Brooks Payne shows us.
Kichinichini took in the hazy sun from the River Street bridge in Hyde Park's Cleary Square: Read more.
WCVB reports that one Amtrak maintenance vehicle collided with another around 4:30 a.m. on Northeast Corridor tracks just north of Readville station, sending five workers to the hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
Myesha Lewis, from affidavit.
A Dorchester woman and an alleged accomplice from Stoughton were arrested yesterday on charges they robbed letter carriers in Hyde Park, one at knife point, for keys that would let them open streetside mailboxes to rummage for checks that could be altered and deposited. Read more.
The Globe reports a federal jury today acquitted four current and former officers at the Boston Police evidence warehouse in Hyde Park on wire-fraud charges related to overtime payments.
The Globe quoted lawyers for the four that there was nothing wrong with what they did because it was long a practice approved by BPD administrators.
L'il Stinker turned jarhead in Hyde Park.
In the Hyde Park, MA Neighbors group on Facebook, Jess Madden-Fuoco recounts the excitement on Child Street in Hyde Park yesterday morning when her neighbor, Stephanie-Marie Cariello, turned into the hero one skunk needed: Read more.
Victims identified as Joshua Marshall, 21, of Stoughton (at the scene) and Reneil Miller, 23, of Hyde Park (at Milton Hospital).
Boston Police found a man with gunshot injuries in a crashed car on Dedham Street just off Reservation Road in Hyde Park, around 9:35 p.m. Read more.
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