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By adamg - 8/8/23 - 10:07 pm

Stanley Staco reports a man was stabbed in the stomach in the basement of the Roundhouse, 891 Massachusetts Ave. at Mass and Cass around 9 p.m. Because of the nature of his injuries, the homicide unit was called in. And because of the number of witnesses, officers from across the city were called to the scene.

By adamg - 7/30/23 - 12:35 pm

A Malden man faces charges that after he backed into a car on Camden Street in the South End he tried to finish an argument with the car's driver by getting out a baseball bat and smashing in the car's windshields, even as the driver yelled his young daughter was in the back seat, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports - adding the guy is also charged with selling cigarettes without a license. Read more.

By adamg - 7/23/23 - 12:39 pm

Three people stabbed outside the Southampton Street shelter were arraigned last week on charges they were the ones doing all the attacking, with knives, gun butts and a milk crate - according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which reports police are still looking for a separate guy who walked into the shelter with a machete, as well as the owners of one of the two loaded guns police found. Read more.

By adamg - 7/18/23 - 1:16 pm

Update: Board decides neither incident was foreseeable so no violation for either bar.

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday what to do about incidents at bars in the South End and East Boston in which patrons apparently looking for trouble found it. Read more.

By adamg - 7/18/23 - 8:59 am
Hazy start to the day, with sun partially obscured

Brooks Payne pointed his camera up towards the sky over the South End this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 7/11/23 - 1:09 pm

WBUR reports Boston Medical Center had been letting new migrant families shelter in its lobbies until they could find more permanent housing, but says it was getting too many people and so had to send some of them to Logan Airport - which says, no, don't do that.

By adamg - 7/10/23 - 9:48 pm
Rainbow over the South End

Amy Weingarten Salvucci took in the post-storm rainbow over the South End this evening. Brooks Payne captured it as well.

Romeo Trauma watched the rainbow over Dudley Street in Dorchester: Read more.

By adamg - 7/7/23 - 10:27 am
La Seleccion plays in the South End

Brooks Payne took in Miguel Ángel y La Selección at O'Day Playground in the South End yesterday - the start of the Tito Puente Latin Music Series, which will host Thursday-evening performances at different parks across Boston this summer.

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 4:12 pm

A man was robbed and stabbed in the back in the area of Southampton and Atkinson streets around 4 p.m.

About 20 minutes later, police nabbed a possible suspect near the Newmarket commuter-rail station.

By adamg - 6/27/23 - 1:47 pm

The manager of New York Pizza, 35 Massachusetts Ave. at Columbus Avenue, acknowledged today that not long after he called 911 to report that a panhandler who had been denied his customary free slice was refusing to leave on March 11, he called 911 back to report the man had a knife and was attempting to rob customers. Read more.

By adamg - 6/2/23 - 9:42 am

The owner of a South End condo and roof patio yesterday sued the Zoning Board of Appeal to block construction of a pair of decks - one with a grill and fire pit - atop the building next door. Read more.

By adamg - 5/21/23 - 10:12 am

The Boston Public Health Commission reports that some raw sewage got into the inner harbor early this morning through combined sewer outflow pipes in East Boston and the South End: Read more.

By adamg - 5/16/23 - 5:38 pm

Three men were arraigned on Monday for a May 6 gun battle in which at least 21 bullets were discharged with nobody getting hit in the area of Washington and Mystic streets in the South End, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 5/14/23 - 12:52 pm
Lilacs at Union Church n the South End

Brooks Payne enjoyed the lilacs today outside Union Church on Columbus Avenue in the South End.

This church was attended by our beloved human rights champion Mel King and where his "Coming Home" celebration was held last month.

By adamg - 5/6/23 - 9:53 pm

Boston Police responded to 1 Mystic St., off Washington Street in the South End, on a report of several shots fired shortly before 9:30 p.m. They found one car with fresh gunshot damage, but no victims.

By Oliver Blake - 5/4/23 - 1:14 pm

A company that specializes in pop-up events says it's planning a two-day Lego-themed restaurant. Read more.

By adamg - 5/1/23 - 11:45 am

Democratic voters in the 10th Suffolk state representative's district (West Roxbury and parts of Roslindale, Jamaica Plain and South Brookline) vote tomorrow in a special primary to determine who gets on the ballot later this month, but since there are no Republican or independents running, the winner will most likely replace Ed Coppinger, who resigned from the seat earlier this year. Read more.

By adamg - 4/28/23 - 5:19 pm

A group of about six people who are still whining about masks returned to the area in front of Boston Medical Center today to yell at people wearing masks through bullhorns and to follow and video hospital workers, some of whom they accused of being "abusers."

By adamg - 4/25/23 - 3:59 pm

Mayor Wu and School Superintendent Mary Skipper will formally rename the McKinley schools - four schools in one complex in the South End after longtime Boston civil-rights activist Mel King tomorrow. Read more.

By adamg - 4/19/23 - 12:42 pm

The State House News Service reports that Amparo "Chary" Ortiz appears to have withdrawn from the May 2 special primary to replace Jon Santiago, leaving John Moran as the only Democrat left, with no Republicans or other candidates to appear on the May 30 ballot.

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