By adamg - 2/6/25 - 11:41 am

Nora Nelson, 24, is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow on charges she killed Joseph Donohue, 65, on his Charlestown houseboat by stabbing him repeatedly, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/25 - 7:13 pm

Boston Police report the man found dead on his houseboat at the Charlestown Marina Sunday night was Joseph Donohue, 65. Read more.

By adamg - 2/3/25 - 9:53 am

Update: Police say Joseph Donohue, 65, was stabbed repeatedly.

Boston Police report they are investigating the suspicious death of a man on a houseboat at the Charlestown Marina off Shipway Place in Charlestown. Read more.

By adamg - 1/25/25 - 11:53 pm

A woman was stabbed in an apartment at 25 Polk St. in Charlestown's Bunker Hill development around 11:40 p.m. She was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.

By adamg - 1/6/25 - 4:07 pm

A pair of men from Charlestown were arraigned Friday on charges they concocted a bogus armed-robbery story to make off with cash from Cava, a Mediterranean restaurant at 125 Summer St. downtown, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 1/6/25 - 11:26 am

Boston Police report arresting a Charlestown man on charges he gunned down Joseph Donahue of Charlestown, whose body was found in the parking lot of the Main Street 7-Eleven on Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 1/5/25 - 9:15 pm

Update: Suspect arrested.

Boston Police report a man found lying in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at 140 Main St. in Charlestown around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday was dead from a gunshot wound. Read more.

By adamg - 12/31/24 - 11:58 am

Boston Police report arresting a local and a guy from Wakefield on charges they held up the Star convenience store at 134 Bunker Hill St. in Charlestown shortly before 6:15 p.m. on Monday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/23/24 - 2:07 pm

The city announced today it's installed four vending machines that dispense Narcan, clean syringes and fentanyl test kits - with room for possible later additions that could include pregnancy test kits and socks - and is working to install another eight machines that dispense Narcan across the city. Read more.

Guy with a brick
By adamg - 12/19/24 - 2:45 pm

The Anchor in the Charlestown Navy Yard reported today it's open, but with limited capacity, following "a targeted vandalism attack" on Dec. 4: Read more.

By adamg - 12/12/24 - 11:35 pm

Somebody fired around 10 rounds in the area of 105 Bunker Hill St. in Charlestown shortly before 9 p.m. No victims, but at least two cars hit by bullets.

By adamg - 11/26/24 - 1:42 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today unanimously approved plans by Jack Kelly III of Charlestown to open a dispensary at 31 Cambridge St., a short distance from an existing dispensary. Read more.

Surveillance photos of suspect
By adamg - 11/22/24 - 10:03 am

Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say held up the 7-Eleven at 140 Main St. in Charlestown Sunday night. Read more.

By adamg - 11/12/24 - 10:24 pm

The State House News Service reports a required land-use change for the Everett land where the Krafts want to build a home for the New England Revolution is included in an economic-development bill. Read more.

USS Nantucket
By adamg - 11/9/24 - 3:44 pm

Eric Bender photographed the USS Nantucket, docked at the Charlestown Navy Yard today. The Nantucket is a $500-million "littoral combat ship," aimed at close-to-shore operations, but which have been plagued with problems. Read more.

Sunrise over the Tobin Bridge and the Mystic River
By adamg - 11/4/24 - 9:11 am

Chelsea Scanner was up before the new sunrise this morning to capture dawn's early light over the Tobin and the Mystic River.

By adamg - 10/20/24 - 11:04 pm

Shortly after 6 p.m., a cannon onboard Old Ironsides misfired and seemed to have lobbed a projectile at a building on the grounds of the Charlestown Navy Yard. Read more

By adamg - 10/18/24 - 2:05 pm

Mayor Wu announced today the city is renaming the North Washington Street bridge after Celtics great and civil-rights activist Bill Russell. Read more.

By adamg - 10/2/24 - 5:52 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Ismail Mohamed, 40, to six to eight years in state prison and three years of probation for the way he beat a woman until her face swelled up, then used a razor blade to slice her face, he claimed, to reduce the swelling, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.