311 complaint of the day: Screacher preacher

Maybe he needs amplification because nobody's gathering near him.

311 complaint of the day: Screacher preacher

July 13

An ear-hurt resident files a 311 complaint about a Downtown Crossing street preacher with a sound system that goes to 11.

Canton man arrested for July 4 murder in Cambridge; others sought

July 13

The Cambridge/Somerville Independent reports the arrest of Rayquon Brown, 29, of Canton, on murder and other charges for the shooting death of Xavier Bautista.

Battery-powered Charles River ferry begins testing

July 13

Watertown News reports on the initial test runs of the Wada Hoppah - which a Watertown man first began thinking of when he tried and failed to beat the traffic on the way to a Sox game in 2023 on one of the roads.

Uber driver ordered held for competency test on charge he stabbed a rider at Logan early Friday

July 13

A judge today ordered an Uber driver from Lowell to undergo a competency screening on a charge of attacking a passenger early Friday morning at Logan Airport's Terminal C.

Auto-destruct sequence: Police say man walked down East Boston street smashing car windows and mirrors with a cinderblock and a wooden pole

July 13

Update: Judge orders him held in lieu of $1,000 bail. Should he make bail, he would be ordered to home confinement.

A Roxbury man armed with a cinderblock and one of those wooden poles used to support newly planted trees went down Sumner Street near Orleans Street in East Boston yesterday afternoon, attacking parked cars by smashing their windows and mirrors.

Stabber with a scooter sought for attack at Charles/MGH

July 13

Transit Police report they are looking for this guy for the way he allegedly slashed somebody in the forehead and stabbed him in the neck at at the Charles/MGH Red Line stop around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Mejia cites dehydration, exhaustion for collapse; Man shot to death in Allston

311 complaint of the day: Who left a pile of rotting fish behind a historic house in Dorchester? July 19 An olfactorily offended resident filed a 311 complaint about today about the growing stench behind the historic James Blake House, 735 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester ... Deer with its ducks in

People demand safer roads; guy charged with shooting at cops

But first, this morning dawned bright and early and full of storrowing goodness: Somebody in a rental truck ignored the "CARS ONLY" signs and did a 10-out-of-1o storrowing inbound at the BU Bridge around 5 a.m: Truck completely destroyed, roof peeled back and laying

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The state Department of Environmental Protection forecast for today: "Wildfire smoke from Canada will continue to enter the region and influence particle pollution levels. Fine particle levels are forecast to average in the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (USG) range." And by "sensitive groups," they mean seniors,

One man with black T and shiesty, other in gray hoodie, their Civic.

Two sought for stabbing at Roslindale cemetery

Boston Police report they are looking for two guys and a Honda Civic for a stabbing at St. Michael Cemetery, 500 Canterbury St. in Roslindale, around 6:10 a.m. on Saturday. Read more. After-hours brawl left once promising amateur boxer from Ireland bleeding from several stab wounds outside