Boston judge tells Texas AG to cut the crap; photos released of lemonade-stand armed robbery suspects
Boston federal judge orders Texas attorney general and senate candidate to drop sham lawsuit against Somerville-based Democratic fundraising platform
June 11
A Boston federal judge ruled today that Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate Ken Paxton had his office sue Somerville-based ActBlue in an act of naked political harassment to try to hamstring Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico and ordered him to stop that crap immediately.
Cops hunt the losers who robbed two kids running a lemonade stand in South Boston
June 11
Boston Police have released a series of surveillance photos and a brief video of the two teenagers - one tall and Black, the other short and White or Hispanic - they say showed a gun while robbing two kids running a lemonade stand on West 9th Street near E Street in South Boston around 4:40 p.m. on Wednesday.
Jury convicts fake ride-share driver as serial rapist
June 11
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Alvin Campbell, 45, on 21 of the 22 counts related to a rape spree between 2017 and 2019 involving women he picked up in his car outside bars, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Man recently sent away for drugging and raping one woman gets new sentence but no extra time for dumping another woman's body in Hyde Park woods
June 11
A man who was sentenced last month to 17 to 20 years in state prison for repeatedly drugging and raping a woman was sentenced today to 3 years for putting another woman's body in a plastic bag and dumping it in a swamp off Enneking Parkway in Stony Brook Reservation in Hyde Park, but the judge made the sentence concurrent with last month's sentence, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
State begins looking for a developer to do something about the one downtown structure more brutally brutalist than City Hall
June 11
State officials yesterday opened the gates for private developers with serious ideas for turning the foreboding 5.5-acre Government Services Center into a housing and retail complex where people would actually want to live and shop.
Council votes to restore $12M in budget cuts; but will mayor agree?
June 11
The City Council yesterday voted 12-1 to cut nearly $12 million from some city budgets to restore proposed decreases in programs from youth jobs and housing assistance to aid for immigrants.
