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Judge bars ICE from just busting into local Lutheran, Baptist churches without a warrant - or setting up checkpoints just outside to scan people February 15 A federal judge has barred ICE and other federal agencies without warrants from running riot in dozens of Boston-area churches - or from setting up
Burst pipe heavily damages Brighton barber shop; friends, customers chip in, benefit show set February 12 A pipe burst in an apartment at 408 Market St. in Brighton Center over the weekend, flooding Matt Charette's Matt's Barber Shop. Boston City Council doesn't go on
An odd duck February 11 Alice Murphy spotted this duck waddling down Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay today, but did not attempt to quack any jokes or ask if he were taking a break from Mrs. Mallard, because she didn't want to ruffle his feathers since he
ICE grabs woman charged with performing illegal eyelid surgery in Allston, lawyer says February 10 A Suffolk Superior Court hearing about a Newton woman charged with passing herself off as a plastic surgeon and performing eyelid surgery in a Packards Corner apartment building had to be called off Monday when
Why did the chicken cross the rotary? February 9 The MSPCA reports a staffer, Corinne, was running some errands yesterday morning when she spotted something odd in the rotary where VFW and West Roxbury parkways meet in West Roxbury: Could that be a chicken? Burst pipe shuts dorm at UMass
Some weekends are quiet. Not this one. Lots of news: A fire, people shoveling where the city won't, even a flaming trash truck in the snow. Oh, yeah, and there was a game yesterday, but let's not talk about that. One firefighter injured at two-alarm
International incident: Park Plaza landlord sues Israel over mess it says the country's consulate left behind when it moved February 5 You run a consulate from a country in a dangerous part of the world, you're going to make modifications to keep the place safe. The
After a judge ordered ICE to release an immigrant they'd shoved in a bedless, windowless basement, they arrested her husband February 5 A federal judge in Boston last night ordered the regime not to immediately deport an Ecuadorian man - three months after another federal judge ordered ICE to
Venerable South End market closing; to be replaced by private school, but some residents already organizing protests February 3 Foodie's Market, open nearly 30 years on Washington Street in the South End, is closing in June, to be replaced by another location of the Croft School, which already
Boston cops who violently broke a man's arm while he was on the ground being arrested will have to answer for that in court, judge rules February 3 A federal judge says a man arrested on gun charges by officers responding to a report of somebody shooting a
Not even the Orange Line is immune as problems on all the T lines balloon February 1 Riders on the Blue, Red and Green lines had to deal with delays today. No delays (yet) on the Orange Line, but trains had to bypass Back Bay station due to smoke from
But first: The French Toast Alert level for Boston has dropped to just 2 Slices/Guarded, based on forecasts that now show the bombostorm on Sunday to pass far enough to our south and east that we don't get much snow (although we could get some coastal flooding)