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The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday upheld Charles Williams's second-degree murder conviction for the death of Dennis Parham, shot in the head on Shawmut Avenue at Kendall Street in Roxbury's Lenox housing development the night of July 15, 2017. Read more.
The Madison Park Development Corp. says it will soon file detailed plans for a six-story, 54-unit apartment building and a 9-unit condo building on a 3/4-acre lot at 639 Warren St. at Crawford Street in Roxbury's Grove Hall.
A Chelsea woman was fairly convicted and sent
Matt Frank watched the sun go down in East Boston through the haze of western fires over Charlestown this evening.
CNBC reports that Vladislav Klyushin, sentenced to nine years in federal prison last fall for overseeing an insider-trading scheme that netted him and his employees $93 million, is headed back to Russia, where he already has one medal and commendation from the country's dictator. Read more.
As Boston officials await word on whether the legislature will give last-second approval to more than 250 liquor licenses for the city, the Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by developer John Hynes IV to pay $600,000 for the liquor license of a defunct downtown bar to use it as an enticeme...
Boston Police report arresting two Dorchester residents on charges they opened fire on a couple of men on Summer Street, hitting one in the back, around 3 a.m. on July 25.
brewery to change hands, add coffee and food
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Distraction Brewing in Roslindale Square announced today that it will shut Aug. 31 - as a new owner works to change it into a brewery that is also a coffeehouse with food. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board voted today to let an East 8th Street market begin selling beer and wine, but again cautioned they are going to put more scrutiny on any future requests from South Boston markets to add alcoholic beverages.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a license that will let DJ's Market, 120 Boston St. in Dorchester's Polish Triangle, add beer and wine to its offerings.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by a downtown restaurant and bar group to branch out and buy the closed Dorset Hall, 367-271 Neponset Ave. in Dorchester, and re-open it as an Irish pub called McGonagle’s. Read more.
MassDOT yesterday sued a Charlestown company whose driver was going down 128 with the back of his "rollback" flatbed in the upright position - at least until he slammed into the bottom of an overpass at Endicott Street in Danvers on Nov. 14, 2020. Read more.
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A federal judge today threw out a lawsuit against Harvard University by a Cambridge man who charged a book published by the school's press libeled the Chinese dictator, who died in 1997. Read more.
The two outages that left part of Roslindale without lights or air conditioning yesterday were caused by "an underground cable fault" underneath Belgrade Avenue, an Eversource spokesperson said today.
A federal magistrate judge last week ordered a former Quincy man facing drug-distribution charges ordered held without bail pending his trial, ruling his pending charges and his past criminal record show he would prove a risk to society were he allowed to remain free. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say was hanging out on Stockton Street in Dorchester with a loaded gun yesterday evening. Police say officers responded to 41 Stockton St. on a report of a guy with a gun in the backyard around 6:25 p.m. Upon arrival, officers observed the group of m...
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the Domino's at 1514 Blue Hill Ave. extend its closing time to 2 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday - with delivery only via car and payment only by credit card. Read more.
As a large group on Mother's Day celebrated a man's college graduation at Estella, 49 Temple Pl., two attendees at the bar got into an argument over who had dibs on the man that escalated into a large roving brawl on Temple Place and Washington Street, police and restaurant managers told the Boston....
Eversource reports nearly 1,900 homes and businesses in a swath of Roxbury along and north of Melnea Cass Boulevard are without power. Among the affected buildings: 1010 Massachusetts Ave., home to the Boston Public Health Commission, ISD and the Zoning Board of Appeal, which has turned to battery-p...
Boston Police report arresting Christian Coloma, 25, of Roslindale on charges related to a man getting shot in the chest outside the Jackson Square Orange Line stop yesterday afternoon. Read more.
A local developer has proposed a six-story, 45-unit residential building at 1274 Massachusetts Ave. that would also have an entrance on Boston Street, not far from the Giant Pear and the mega-intersection of Edward Everett Square.
Riders in an inbound 60 bus were jolted when the driver of a Toyota minivan slammed into it on Rte. 9 just before Chestnut Hill Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Read more.
A man in a pickup truck was shot in the chest next to the Jackson Square Orange Line stop shortly before 2:40 p.m.
A bleary-eyed resident filed a 311 complaint at 1:33 a.m. this morning about the goings at the Roxbury Community College parking lot along Columbus Avenue: People have school and work tomorrow. Speakers so loud windows are rattling.
Boston Police report that officers who pulled over a speeding car whose driver didn't have current registration on Wood Avenue near Oakwood Street around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday. Read more.
Chelsea Scanner this evening showed us what it might look like watching Jupiter from one of its moons, if that moon had large tanks and a casino. Compare to this morning's sunrise over the water at Winthrop.
Boston Police report arresting a man on charges he stabbed somebody in the stomach outside the Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St. around 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Boston Police report arresting a man they allege thought there was enough distance between him and all the cops inside Dorchester Municipal Court that he could threaten some people with a gun, only there wasn't. Read more.
Lazy, hazy due to West Coast fires
Matt Frank watched the sun come up over the ocean off Winthrop this morning in the haze from forest fires way out West.
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