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By adamg - 3/16/24 - 4:54 pm
Bald Eagle perched in a tree on the Esplanade

Out for a stroll along the Esplanade today, Fuad spotted an alert bald eagle perched on a tree near the playground near the Mass. Ave. Bridge.

By adamg - 3/9/24 - 11:03 pm

Not everything that goes wrong on the T is the T's fault, it seems. First it was the little duck and today, the T says, it had to shut the Orange Line between Forest Hills and Back Bay after an overhead Amtrak power line unspooled or snapped or something near Ruggles, causing problems for the neighboring subway line. Read more.

By adamg - 3/5/24 - 1:23 pm

A man's planned $120 bed romp at the Back Bay Hilton turned into an armed robbery that ended with the prostitute and another john arrested immediately - and him being summonsed into court on a charge of sex for a fee - BPD detectives told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 12:12 am

NBC Boston reports State Police had to call in a crane truck to remove the remains of an excavator on a flatbed whose driver slammed into the top of the inbound tunnel around 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday. No, the crane truck did not then also storrow.

By adamg - 2/28/24 - 9:44 am

Boston Police report arresting a man for an incident outside the Walgreens, 841 Boylston St. in the Back Bay, around 9:10 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 2/24/24 - 10:56 am

Boston Police report arresting the man they say robbed smoke shops in the Fenway and the Back Bay earlier this week. Read more.

By adamg - 2/23/24 - 10:36 am
Wanted for smoke-shop robberies

Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Boston Police report they are looking for a guy who's held up two smoke shops in the Back Bay this week while claiming to have a gun. Read more.

By adamg - 2/22/24 - 9:38 am
Car on fire on the Copley ramp from the Pru tunnel

Teddy Kokoros reports he was on his usual bus ride from Watertown into Boston around 7:15 this morning when he looked out the window in the Pru Tunnel to see a car fully engulfed in flames on the Copley offramp. Sounds like the car occupants were able to get out OK, at least, neither BFD nor State Police called for an ambulance.

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 2:42 pm

Boston Police report nabbing six of eight teens they say spent part of yesterday afternoon pestering stores along Newbury Street before breaking into a truck, then heading toward the Public Garden down an alley between Marlborough Street and Commonwealth Avenue. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 11:05 am

So a couple of white teens think nothing of going into a cosmetics store and doing some blackface. Oh, right, but it's really 2024.

Sephora responds to the video: Read more.

By adamg - 2/12/24 - 12:51 pm

State Police report divers pulled the body of a man out of the river near the Longfellow about 1:50 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 3:39 pm

The owner of a pottery studio that used to be on Beacon Hill yesterday sued her new and notorious Back Bay landlord, saying he broke his promise to let her install kilns to fire her patrons' hand-decorated wares. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 9:23 am
Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee.  The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement

Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee. The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, collected and investigated UFO sightings - including a number in the Boston area (two in West Roxbury alone). Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/24 - 5:30 pm
Sunset over Boston Common and Charles River

Tony Ursillo watched the sun go down over the Common and the Charles River this evening.

Further upstream, in the ever aptly named Watertown, Pat Miguel Tomaino watched a nice sunset over the Charles as well: Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 4:11 pm

The Harvard Book Store announced today it just couldn't make the numbers work and has called off plans to open a second shop across the river at the Prudential Center: Read more.

By adamg - 1/29/24 - 5:59 pm

At 5:36 p.m. on the first full day of Green Line operations in awhle, the T reported delays of up to 20 minutes on the Green Line due to a trolley whose poor heart gave out at Hynes.

By adamg - 1/27/24 - 1:06 pm

The Boston Fire Department reports a transformer explosion behind the Lenox Hotel at Exeter and Boylston streets around 12:30 p.m. filled the hotel with smoke. Firefighters went through the hotels evacuating all guests and employees as other firefighters installed fans to get the smoke out.

The department ordered a two-alarm response because of the need to evacuate the building.

By adamg - 1/27/24 - 12:28 pm

Adam Castiglioni reports that Dave's Hot Chicken, which specializes in spicy Nashville-style fried chicken, will open a branch in the Transportation Building on Stuart Street on Feb. 2.

By adamg - 1/26/24 - 1:47 pm
Blind rat with passersby

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about a rat that is both injured and blind and yet still managing to scare passersby on Commonwealth Avenue near Exeter Street in the Back Bay:

Rat seems to have been in a fight and is blind. Has been wandering in this area all morning scaring people and pets.

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 10:20 pm

Back in the day, people would use 311 to complain about potholes, trash, rats and the like, but of late, it seems to have become a portal for making all sorts of requests to the city - like interview requests from reporters trying to get Mayor Wu to comment on whatever Fox News or Newsmax is blathering about (or about goats).

Today, somebody filed the following: Read more.

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