Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say started harassing a woman on the Green Line at Kenmore and finished by punching her in the left side of her face at Park Street, shortly before 10 p.m. on April 17. Read more.
At 11:47 a.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays due to "a signal issue" at Park Street.
A company renovating the skyscraper at 1 Lincoln St. in Downtown Crossing yesterday won the right to buy a liquor license for a currently unoccupied space to serve what it says is a growing demand for full service restaurants as more people return to office work by opening at least one restaurant, but possibly more. Read more.
Fire and firetrucks light up the sky. Photo by Ryan.
Boston firefighters responded to the Fens off Boylston Street around 11:30 p.m. on Thursday for what turned out to be a dumpster fire, not the more traditional spring brush fire, which may have become a thing of the past, anyway, now that the reeds have all been cut down.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced William Giordani of Manchester, NH to three years probation for the way he showed up at the Harvard Science Center with a bag full of Roman candles, bottle rockets and wires in it at the bidding of somebody who hired him through Craigslist - who then called police at Harvard seven times to warn them that bombs had been planted around the campus and to demand a large Bitcoin payment to keep them from going off. Read more.
Mascij reports Charlestown experienced "rolling blackouts" starting around 2 a.m. on Friday and continuing on into the night.
The state Ethics Commission today fined Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden $5,000 for the way the DA's press office released a statement that basically accused his opponent of sexually assaulting a girl when the two were in high school. Read more.
A federal appeals court yesterday tossed a lawsuit by a group of Nantucket residents who say the wind turbines now being built off their island will kill endangered right whales. Read more.
Alvaro Larrama, a bouncer at the Sons of Boston bar on Union Street, pleaded guilty today to manslaughter for the March, 2022 stabbing death of Daniel Martinez, a Marine veteran from Chicago in town to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The new owner of 110 Canal St. near the Garden says it will soon file plans to turn the empty seven-story building into an 82-room hotel. Read more.
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Savannah Kinzer, fired from her job at the Cambridge Whole Foods in 2020, should be allowed to continue her wrongful-termination and discrimination suit against the company. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board this morning rejected a request from Red Line Pizza on Dorchester Avenue in South Boston's Andrew Square to offer take out until 2 a.m., citing complaints from residents and police about its repeated violations of its current 11 p.m. legal closing time. Read more.
The MBTA reports delays on the Red Line due to signal problems at Broadway. Trains, the T advises, may stand by at stations, maybe go out for a bite to eat while the problem is worked on.
NBC Boston reports Boston Police move in around 2 a.m. and dragged out students protesting the situation in Gaza and tents from Boylston Place. Emerson canceled classes for today. Some video.
Meanwhile, Harvard students are in their second day of an encampment in Harvard Yard. The school is barring non-Harvard people from the Yard.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on a remembrance in Fields Corner of "Black April" - when Saigon fell and thousands of people fled the Communists. Many of those refugees settled in the Dorchester neighborhood.
See it larger. Photo by Scott Cluett.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to Henry's Market, 892 South St. in Roslindale for a fire shortly before midnight. Read more.
A federal judge today sentenced Xiaolei Wu to nine months in prison for reacting to a flier another Berklee student posted calling for democracy in their homeland by threatening her with death - maybe even by being eaten by a homeless person at South Bay - and by reporting her and her family to Chinese officials, including his mother, a government functionary. Read more.
A fight in the library at TechBoston Academy, 9 Peacevale Rd. in Dorchester, ended when one student stabbed another, around 12:25 p.m., NBC Boston reports.
Interior photos from commission report: But do they reflect current reality?
The wheels of history sometimes move slowly: The Boston Landmarks Commission is currently considering whether to designate the interior of the former Eben Jordan, Jr./Unification Church mansion at 46 Beacon St. as a landmark of local, state and even national importance based on a petition submitted in 1977. Read more.
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