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Affordable apartments could replace Mattapan Square repair garage May 12 The Archdiocese of Boston's housing arm and a local developer have filed plans to replace an auto garage at 1590 Blue Hill Ave., near Babson Street in Mattapan Square, with a six-story, 105-unit apartment building, with
Two shot on Memorial Drive May 11 Cambridge police and paramedics and state troopers responded to 808 Memorial Drive, just before River Street, on reports of gunfire around 1:30 p.m. Cambridge paramedics transported two people to the hospital, one in critical condition plus the shooter. One victim was
Man shot to death on Woolson Street in Mattapan May 10 Boston Police report a man was shot at 28 Woolson St. between Wildwood and Leston streets in Mattapan shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Saturday. Two shot, one in the head, on Kingsdale Street in Dorchester May 10
So the Blue Line ground to a complete halt; guy walking in harbor tunnel at fault May 7 A man who decided to stretch his legs forced the MBTA to shut the Blue Line around 5:50 p.m. when he got down on the tracks at Aquarium and began
Judge orders immediate release of immigrant after regime fails to provide a single reason why it needed to throw him in a jail May 6 A federal judge in Boston this afternoon ordered the regime to release, within a couple hours, an Angolan man from Maine it had grabbed, then
In unusual move, several judges sue Dorchester man they say keeps trying to harass them through bogus contract filings with state regulators May 6 The Massachusetts trial-court system, three judges and two court administrators yesterday sued a Dorchester man they charge responded to gun charges against him in Norfolk
The EPA still exists and it'll be flying a prop plane over Boston neighborhoods near the water tomorrow, over and over and over again May 4 On May 5, the EPA will be flying a plane on Tuesday to collect background levels of various airborne chemicals - and possibly
Three cars go up in flames in garage on Guest Street in Brighton May 3 The Boston Fire Department reports thick black smoke was pouring out of a five-story garage at 15 Guest St. in Brighton when firefighters pulled up around 6 p.m. Area baker promises not to
Easy come, easy go on Shawmut Avenue April 30 A roving UHub photographer stopped to marvel at the fleet of a dozen car-haulers hauling cars away from Shawmut Avenue this afternoon, enforcing the Thursday parking ban during street-sweeping season. Series of non-binding resolutions throws Boston City Council
Boston Police say Mr. Big Head here held up Madeleine's, 47 Clarendon St. in the South End, Tuesday night - and used a knife to demand cash, but no candy. Protesters arrested at ICE garrison in Burlington April 29 WBUR reports 11 people were arrested outside ICE's
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
The death of a Boston watchman April 27 Today, 178 years ago, one of Boston's last city watchmen was shot to death by one of two guys who broke into a downtown hardware store and made off with about a dollar in change and a few knives. Developer