BPD cruiser set on fire, Harvard Law prof goes varmint hunting outside temple on Yom Kippur
For second time in three months, a local business has a Pride flag vandalized; city officials rush to show support
October 5
Sometime late Friday or early Saturday, somebody tore down the Pride flag that flew outside Russ and Mimi's market on Birch Street in Roslindale Square.
Roslindale held a parade on a day warm enough to make you want to take your head off
October 5
The annual Thomas M. Donahue Roslindale Parade today featured the usual dancers, bands, Shriners in tiny vehicles, old cars, scouts and politicians. Read more.
14-year-old charged with stabbing another girl in East Boston over two-year-old grudge, DA says
October 5
A 14-year-old faces a dangerousness hearing tomorrow on charges she stabbed another 14-year-old around the corner from East Boston High School last month after holding a grudge for two years over a pair of broken glasses, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports, adding a second teen will also be charged with the attack....
Roving street party takes over Mass. and Tremont; cruiser set ablaze, two arrested
October 5
Boston Police report arresting two Rhode Island men during a melee early this morning at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Tremont Street in which firecrackers set a cruiser on fire. Read more.
Visiting Harvard Law prof was firing a pellet gun at rats, not the Brookline temple he was standing outside at the start of Yom Kippur, police say
October 4
Brookline.News reports on the incident outside Temple Beth Zion, 1566 Beacon St., as Yom Kippur was starting Wednesday evening....
Appeals court upholds Massachusetts law that bans sale of pork from pigs living in crates
October 4
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a voter-enacted law against cruel treatment of pigs on farms, which means that even pork from out-of-state animals cannot be sold in Massachusetts if the pigs were raised in "gestation crates" so small they can't turn around or lie down....
Appeals court rules children born here are citizens
October 3
A federal appeals court today upheld more than 100 years of case law and, oh, the Fourteenth Amendment, in concluding that no matter what the regime is huffing, children born on American soil - save for children of foreign diplomats and princelings - are American citizens....
Woman who shoved senior citizen off bus in Roxbury admits to sufficient facts, gets three months of home confinement and a two-year ban on T use
October 3
Luz Pineda, charged with "violently shoving" a 63-year-old woman out of her way and out of a 28 bus on Sept. 8, today admitted to sufficient facts in the case, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports....
Regime grabs immigration lawyer's phone at Logan
October 3
A federal judge today ordered Customs and Homeland Security to keep their mitts off a phone their agents grabbed last week from an immigration lawyer returning to Logan Airport from a trip to Aruba, at least pending a hearing on Tuesday.
Judge refuses to let immigrant snatched by ICE stay locked up because of Republican shutdown
October 3
A federal judge in Boston today ordered the regime to either let an immigrant grabbed by ICE make his case before an immigration judge within a week why he should be released on bond while he pursues permission to stay here permanently - or just release him immediately....
Bruins lover in a Sox cap sought for Allston bank robbery
October 3
Boston Police and the FBI report they are looking for a guy who robbed the Rockland Trust branch at 229 N. Harvard St. in Allston around 3:40 p.m. on Sept. 11.
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Concord offers relief to tourists cut off by the Republican shutdown of the National Park Service visitor center at Old North Bridge
October 3
Concord history buff Victor Curran reports volunteers have put signs up at Old North Bridge pointing tourists to the a pop-up center on Monument Street run by Concord Visitor Center, where they can...
Judge won't preemptively block regime from cutting off funds to Chelsea, Somerville because they care about immigrant residents
October 3
A federal judge yesterday rejected a request from Chelsea and Somerville for a preliminary injunction that would bar the regime from cutting off federal funds because of their stances against helping round up brown people not facing criminal charges as their suit against the regime's white-supremacist policy continues....
Man shot to death on Bloomfield Street in Dorchester; suspect charged with manslaughter
October 3
The Dorchester Reporter reports a man was fatally shot at 107 Bloomfield St., near Greenbrier Street in Dorchester, around 1:40 a.m. on Thursday....
