Apartments proposed on Boylston; man charged with 1999 Dorchester murder
Controversial Boylston Street landlord wants to convert office space to apartments, but not in the building he let fall apart
January 14
Hicham Ali Hassan, owner of the historic Warren Chambers building at 419 Boylston St. in the Back Bay, yesterday filed plans to convert the top six floors of the building from what are now vacant offices into 44 apartments.
Some Blue Line riders were late, due to track fire at State
January 15
Boston firefighters responded to the Blue Line tracks at State Street after some debris on the tracks came in contact with the third rail and burst into flames around 11:35 p.m. on Wednesday.
Cambridge cops rescue guy who fell on the tracks at Central just before a train was going to pull in
January 14
WCVB has the video of the Dec. 27 rescue at Central on the Red Line.
Man charged with 1999 murder on Columbia Road in Dorchester; he's already serving life term for killing his girlfriend
January 14
A Boston man serving a life sentence for murdering his girlfriend in Weymouth in 2017 was charged today with murdering another woman in 1999 in her apartment at 467 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Weekly protests continue at ICE garrison in Burlington
January 14
Jennifer shows us some of the nearly 1,000 protesters at today's protest.
Driver critically injured after slamming into several cars near convention center
January 14
NBC Boston reports on the mult-car crashing around 8 a.m. on West Side Drive, which runs along one side of the Menino Convention Center.
It would be easy, but please, no sass; dead train at JFK/UMass
January 14
The MBTA is reporting ten-minute delays on the Red Line due to an extremely recalcitrant train at JFK/UMass. Other trains might be forced to stand by at stations.
Three guys from 'Boston' recite Massachusetts city and town names on national TV
January 14
Pretty funny, but see how many mistakes you can spot (starting right at the start, with Affleck getting "Amherst" wrong, and then continuing through the alphabet, with Damon getting "Quincy" wrong). All we know is Gary LaPierre would have gotten them right (as he announced which towns had closed schools for snow).
Boston prepares for ICE invasion
January 14
Mike Deehan at Axios reports on how City Hall is preparing for an invasion of murderous, trigger-happy goons, and why some surrounding communities should be worried, too. No word if the city legal department is already working on drafting a lawsuit.
