Boston Police report arresting two men a 911 caller reported were walking down Savin Street in Roxbury Friday night, at least until officers arrived and then try tried to run away, but failed - one also then failed to hide in some grass that wasn't tall enough to cover him, police say. Read more.
Feel the sine wave of surging AC in this rendering by Burns & McDonnell and RODE Architects.
A Boulder, CO company last week filed plans for the two-story, 50-foot-tall big battery building it's proposing for, really, the best street in all of Boston for something like that: Electric Avenue in Brighton. Read more.
An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about the cruel activity on the Common yesterday: Read more.
The Heights reports D-14 cops, already on alert because of one skulking prowler with his face covered, stopped a masked guy at South Street and Kirkwood Road Thursday night after he'd been spotted in somebody's yard on Radnor Road. Read more.
Rendering by MicDougal Architects.
Local developer and restauranteur has filed plans to build a seven-story, 30-unit apartment building on what is now a vacant lot at 691-695 Morton Street, next to the Mobil station on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan. Read more.
A fed-up resident files a 311 complaint about two coyotes on Ellison Avenue on the Mattapan/Dorchester line: Read more.
Patrick Maguire reports the Busy Bee, which the Christakis family opened in 1967 at 1046 Beacon St. on the Brookline side of Audubon Circle, is closing its doors as the family moves on. They report they are negotiating with "a prospective new restaurant tenant" for the space. Read more.
Starer in the Capitol: Probably not the mien she wore during counseling and gyn sessions back home.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Jacquelyn Starer, who once practiced at Jamaica Plain's Faulkner Hospital, to nine months in prison for not just storming into the Capitol back on Jan. 6, 2021 but for punching a DC cop in the head, cursing her and riling up other putschists in the Rotunda. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting the man they say shot Jashun Cooley to death on Washington Street in Dorchester on Aug. 24. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld the dismissal of gun charges against a Dorchester man whom police say they watched showing off guns on Snapchat via a bogus Snapchat ID because both police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office refused a lower-court order to turn over information about all the fake IDs they used to monitor suspected gang members in Snapchat videos around the time he was arrested - twice - in 2018. Read more.
On a walk in Millennium Park along the Charles yesterday morning, Mary Ellen's view changed from an egret (and hidden heron) in the calm, morning mist to the frenetic bounding of a pair of young deer: Read more.
Dan Secatore contrasts Globe and MassLive.com coverage of Devers's reaction to Yet Another Loss and finds the Globe published a good in-the-locker-room look at why Devers might have spent 40 minutes staring at his locker while MassLive published a pointless whine about the ballplayer who wouldn't talk to reporters.
A South Boston woman faces charges that she ran over another woman in the South Bay Mall parking lot off Allstate Road shortly after 11 p.m. on Wednesday, in part based on the "red residue" police found above one of her car's rear tires, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports workers today carted away the howitzer that long sat outside the American Legion Old Dorchester Post 65 next to the Eire Pub, because the post was shut recently and sold to a developer planning a building aimed at people between 55 and 65. The gun is being given to a veterans post on the Cape.
The Jewish Journal interviews Erwin Liverman, who started sweeping out chimneys, with his father, when he was just seven and retired only this past July - after a career that also included getting a master's in education in counseling psychology at Cambridge College.
"It just got to the point where I thought, 'Oy, this is enough,' " he said, interviewed at home in Newton. "I may be the most senior sweep in the world."
The city Office of Civic Organizing is offering $250 grants to neighborhoods that want to really go all out for Halloween this year. Read more.
The Charlestown Neighborhood Council is setting up a Soccer Stadium Committee to ensure Charlestown has some say on the 25,000-seat soccer stadium Robert Kraft wants to build just over the line in Everett, near the casino, the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports.
A federal judge today sentenced John Sullivan, 78, to 18 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to attacking a man of Vietnamese origin he didn't know with both his mouth and his car, screaming at both the man and his family he would kill them all and that they should go back to China before hitting the accelerator and ramming the man twice outside a Quincy post office. Or as prosecutors put it: Read more.
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