Armed bank robbers all over; Blue, Orange lines went down
Everett bank robbed by pair with gun and machete; police do not think they were the Roxbury/Roslindale robbers
April 28
NBC Boston reports an Eastern Bank branch in Everett was robbed around 4:30 p.m., but that police say the man and woman arrested not long after are not suspects for armed robberies earlier in the day at banks in...
Police link armed bank robbery in Roslindale to armed bank robbery in Roxbury
April 28
Boston Police report the two men who held up the TD Bank branch at 930 American Legion Highway off Cummins Highway in Roslindale shortly before noon got away in the same RAV4 used in Roxbury.
Bank robbers with guns strike in Roxbury, Roslindale
April 28
Boston Police report they are looking for two people with guns who held up the Santander Bank branch at 2189 Washington St. in Roxbury around 10:11 a.m. today.
South End candy store robbed at knifepoint
April 28
Staco City reports that Madeleine's Candy Shop, 47 Clarendon St. in the South End, was robbed around 7:45 p.m. by a guy in an orange puffy coat who showed a knife and made off only with cash, around 7:45 p.m.
The Blue and Orange lines both lost power, and that made riders feel pretty sour
April 28
A full 50% of the MBTA's subway lines lost power this afternoon, leaving despairing riders scrambling to get places.
Councilor wants to look at a moratorium on data centers in Boston
April 28
City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, Chinatown, Downtown, South End) tomorrow will ask for a hearing to consider blocking construction of new water- and electricity-sucking data centers in Boston.
Timing is everything
April 28
Or as Michael Ratty puts it: "File Under: The Perils of Magazine Deadlines."
Judge orders ICE to immediately release an immigrant it's had locked up for nearly a year
April 28
A federal judge in Boston this morning ordered the regime to release a Brockton man by 6 p.m. - nearly a year after ICE threw him in a cell in the Plymouth County jail based on a threat he doesn't actually pose to the community as alleged by an ICE report that misread the records of Brockton District Court and ignored testimony and evidence...
Board tells Hyde Park bar/restaurant owner he has to figure out how to keep his patrons quiet at the end of the night
April 28
The Boston Licensing Board today told the owner of Little Haiti International Cuisine, 1184 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, that it and police are getting too many complaints from nearby residents about noise from patrons leaving at the restaurant's 1 a.m. closing time on weekends....
Right out of the gate, the Blue Line was late
April 28
At 5:09 a.m., the MBTA announced it was rolling out buses to replace the Blue Line between Orient Heights and Wonderland due to "a broken switch" near Suffolk Downs. At 7:33, the T updated the problem was fixed, but that service was resuming with 20-minute residual delays.
