GBH runs some numbers, finds we have some admirable crime stats, but the mayor and the Economist might have, well, jumped the gun.
A judge has rejected a request by a couple living near the Lithuanian club on West Broadway that she immediately bar events there, saying they failed to prove they are being irreparably harmed by events there and that granting their request would instead harm the groups and families that have already contracted to host events there. Read more
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Zontre Mack, 21, of Canton, guilty of first-degree murder for the way he killed 15-year-old Curtis Ashford Jr. on July 27, 2022, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
City rat fighters have largely stopped using anti-coagulants that kill not only rats, but any wild predators and pets that might eat them and is instead now relying on relying on pumping carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide into burrows to asphyxiate them, according to John Ulrich, who oversees ISD's rat control efforts. Read more.
Victor Ambros at UMass Chan Medical School and Gary Ruvkun of Mass. General and Harvard Medical School woke up this morning to learn they'd been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for their discovery of microRNA: Read more.
The Daily Free Press reports 26 students had their bikes or scooters stolen, from the streets of Allston to the racks of BU - and some were secured with U-locks. The Freep interviewed one student who rode his scooter to class, locked it to a rack with a wire lock and, while in class, ordered a U-lock - only to go outside to find his scooter stolen.
WCVB reports police arrived to bust up a mini-brawl involving five to six people.
Tristie-Mattea Ortiz reports how two classmates and she sprung into action while studying at the Copley Square library last month when they spotted a pigeon who needed help - he had "a visibly broken wing and missing toe." They were preparing to take it back on the Green Line to try to rehab it in their dorm - luckily, one of them was an avid birder - when they got a call back from 311 and were redirected to the MSPCA in Jamaica Plain, where, on the long trek over, they named the bird Freduardo.
Sean Hennessey shows us the human chain moving books through Porter Square today from Porter Books' old location to its new one.
An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint about a hot-dog stand whose owner was selling hot dogs - and even cajun chicken - in Eliot Norton Park on the Chinatown/Bay Village line at 2:45 this morning: Read more.
Boston Police report officers responding to a ShotSpotter activation for gunfire at Westville and Ditson streets in Dorchester's Fields Corner around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday found a man with a gun in his left pocket. Read more.
Cambridge Day reports work that includes widening the pedestrian/bicycle path and reducing the speed limit on Memorial Drive outbound from the BU Bridge starts Monday.
Somebody called in a bomb threat to the Somerville central library on Highland Avenue shortly before 2 p.m - the scheduled start of a drag-queen story hour, which was then cancelled as police combed the building for a bomb that didn't exist. Read more.
The South Boston Lithuanian Citizens Association yesterday asked a judge to deny a request by two neighbors that he shut it down immediately, saying that even if they could make the case that events and patrons at the group's West Broadway home were excessively noisy and rowdy - which it says they can't - the harm to the association would far outweigh any problems the couple is having. Read more.
Boston and State Police and Boston EMTs responded to Morton Street near Shattuck Hospital on a report of a young child in a car who had stopped breathing around 8 p.m.
WHDH reports an off-duty nurse also stopped to render assistance. The child began breathing again as police blocked off Morton Street and the Arborway to clear the way for the ambulance to get to Children's Hospital.
The Huntington News reports the four grad students, all of whom live off campus, were recently diagnosed and are now isolating.
Northeastern requires inoculation against the communicable disease or proof of previous infection for all students, but just in case, campus health services will be offering shots next week.
The Orange Line will be shut between Forest Hills and Back Bay Oct. 8 - 20 for some more of the repair work the T couldn't get to - or discovered it needed to do - during that month-long shutdown back in 2022.
Shuttle buses, natch. The T also suggests commuter rail or, closer to town, the Green Line.
The annual Roslindale Parade kicks off at 1 p.m. on Sunday in Roslindale Square for the annual walk down Belgrade Avenue.
Streetsblog Mass reports the driver who hit and killed John Corcoran on a pedestrian/bicyclist path next to Memorial Drive has had his license suspended during an investigation but has yet to be charged with anything: Read more.
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