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Hot August 10 Boston's declared another heat emergency, for Monday through Wednesday, what with temps and humidity combining to give us heat indexes of 95 or 96 - so oppressive, but not quite as melty as the heat wave last month.... Hooded, masked teen with a loaded gun
Pedestrian critically injured in Copley Square e-bike crash August 7 NBC Boston reports on the crash at Dartmouth Street and Huntington Avenue shortly before 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday. Police said the bicyclist stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation, the station says. Porch fire damages house
City councilors, rats, fireworks and a 311 complaint about Donny Wahlberg. That was the day that was: You never know when a huge fireworks show will go off over the harbor August 6 The National Conference of State Legislatures ended its meetings in Boston tonight with a show at Harborlights
Former WBZ morning anchor Kate Merrill sues station, CBS and Paramount, charging she was forced out because she's a white woman August 5 Longtime WBZ reporter and anchor Kate Merrill, who mysteriously disappeared from the air in the spring of 2024, today sued her former station, network and
Mayors trade barbs across the Mystic as anger rises over proposed Kraft soccer stadium August 4 In the morning, Boston officials led by Mayor Wu and Charlestown residents decried what they said was the lack of seriousness the Kraft-own Revolution was taking their concerns about the impact of a large
Mystery leafy thing for sale at Haymarket, just what is "bright light?" Allston gets a news and arts source of its very own August 3 Joanna and John Lin have started up Allstonia, which they promise will be updated once a week with the latest news and happenings
New entry in the Annals of Wacky Boston-Area Truck Capers: The case of the stolen garbage truck WFXT reports somebody who stole a car in Medford crashed near the Encore casino in Everett Not a good time for either you or your dog to jump into the Charles past the
Bricks plunge to sidewalk as part of Roslindale Square building's facade collapses 07/30/2025 - 9:26pm Firefighters responded to 41 Poplar St. in Roslindale Square after part of the building's facade above the second floor collapsed, sending bricks crashing to the sidewalk.... When Red
Here's what was going on yesterday: There are limits to how far Harvard will go to fight the regime; will hand over data on 19,000 employees 07/29/2025 - 8:49pm Read it for yourself: Copy of the Harvard letter to employees. The Crimson reports that
A federal judge in Boston, where a lot of these cases seem to get filed, ruled yesterday the regime has to keep reimbursing all Planned Parenthood chapters for health services provided to Medicaid patients. In her ruling Judge Indira Talwani agreed with the non-profit that the provision in the Big
Here's what happened in the Hub since Friday: Nick Schmidt snapped a rainbow over the Back Bay and the Charles from the BU Bridge last week. Campaign roundup: Nothing like seeing a convicted felon staring up at you from your mailbox; Mass and Cass not going away; forum
Welcome to the first issue of UHub Direct, a digest of Universal Hub articles. For now, I'm going to try sending it out in the morning, so you'll get headlines from the previous day (and anything in the morning before I hit Send), five days a