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By adamg - 5/30/18 - 10:12 pm

Boston and Transit Police are investigating how a man wound up stabbed and on an inbound Orange Line train that pulled into Back Bay around 10 p.m.

The man was stabbed at 10 Atherton St. in Egleston Square, then walked to Jackson Square - where he got on the T.

By adamg - 5/12/18 - 7:35 pm

Boston Police report arresting Wilvin Guity, 28, of Dorchester, on charges he murdered both Chris Joyce and Clayborn Blair in the rear of 277 Centre St. on May 4. Read more.

By adamg - 5/6/18 - 8:11 pm

Boston Police have identified the second man shot to death at the Mildred Hailey Apartments on Friday night as Clayborn Blair, 58.

Read more.

By adamg - 5/4/18 - 9:44 pm

UPDATE: One victim identified as Chris Joyce, 23, the second as Clayborn Blair, 58.

Two men were shot, one in the head, around 9:40 p.m. behind 277 Centre St., midway between the T stop and Bickford Street. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/18 - 3:16 pm

Looks like the T will have to put another zero up on those [X] Days Since Last Orange Line Fire in JP" signs again: There was a track fire between Jackson Square and Stony Brook - well less than 24 hours after the last track fire on that stretch of the Orange Line. The fire is out, the firefighters are gone and service has resumed, but with residual delays of 10 to 15 minutes the T advises.

By adamg - 3/19/18 - 9:24 pm
Baez

Ritcher Baez, 25, of New York City, today admitted he killed Pippin Roe near a Jackson Square construction site in 2014, then left her body under some leaves and debris, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Read more.

By adamg - 1/22/18 - 2:48 pm

The MBTA reports it's replacing Orange Line trains with buses between Ruggles and Forest Hills due to a problem with the tracks at Jackson Square.

By adamg - 1/12/18 - 10:46 am

If Ronaldo Cepeda wants to appeal his indictment on second-degree murder charges for the stabbing death of Mason Raymond in 2015, he'll have to wait until after his trial, if he's found guilty, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled today. Read more.

By adamg - 11/2/17 - 9:17 am

Sue O'Connell of NECN had just gotten out of her car on Centre Street around 3:20 p.m. when a guy pulled out a gun and fired several shots. She reports there was a school bus full of kids right there. Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/17 - 8:23 am

"Minor" delays inbound, the MBTA says.

By adamg - 9/29/17 - 9:13 pm

Around 7:15 p.m. at Centre Street across from Wise Street, Boston EMS Incidents and NBC Boston report.

By adamg - 8/31/17 - 3:37 pm
250 Centre St. rendering

Architect's rendering of 250 Centre St.

The Board of Appeal this week approved plans for a 112-unit apartment building at 250 Centre St., which will fill in yet another hole in the streetscape left over from the I-95 extension that never was. Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/17 - 1:23 pm
Proposed 25 Amory Street

Architect's rendering.

The Board of Appeals today approved a 44-unit apartment building on Amory Street in Jackson Square that will have some units priced low enough for people making under $35,000 a year to afford. Read more.

By adamg - 1/17/17 - 10:43 pm

Shortly after 10 p.m. on Centre Street near Lamartine, Abby Burns reports.

Earlier in the afternoon, somebody was robbed at gunpoint on Centre in front of the Stop & Shop.

By adamg - 1/16/17 - 9:03 pm

Sure, Grass Fed in Forest Hills just shut down, but now word comes that Jackson Square at the other end of JP will be getting a burger joint. Jamaica Plain News reports a small chain called MOOYAH (which sounds like what they should've shouted every time you placed an order at BurgerFi in West Roxbury, only it wasn't, and now they're gone, too) plans an outlet at Columbus and Centre.

By adamg - 12/5/16 - 8:54 am
Crowded Jackson Square on the Orange Line

Matt Murphy took this photo at Jackson Square around 8:30 a.m., reports:

Back-to-back full #OrangeLine trains, 100's of passengers can't get on. #HappyMonday!

Video.

By adamg - 11/27/16 - 10:56 pm

Around 10:45 p.m. outside 50 Bickford St. in the Midred Hailey Apartments (formerly Bromley-Heath).

By adamg - 10/12/16 - 1:49 pm

Around 1:40 p.m., by a man on a moped.

By adamg - 9/27/16 - 7:32 am

A man was fatally shot four times in the upper body shortly around 1 a.m. at 267 Centre St. in the Mildred Hailey Apartments, formerly Bromley-Heath, Kevin Wiles, Jr. and 617 Images report. Boston Police report the victim was in his early 40s.

By adamg - 9/15/16 - 11:26 pm

Around 10:40 p.m., Boston and Transit Police officers rushed to the area of the Jackson Square Orange Line station when a suspect driving a stolen car got out, climbed up an electrical tower, then down to the station. Read more.

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