Champion of safer streets killed on dangerous Mission Hill street

All is forgiven, British fighter jets say in commemorating 250th anniversary of US freedom. Photo by Adam Balsam.

The Globe has identified the person who died when hit by a driver on Tremont Street at Parker Street on Mission Hill this morning as Louisa Gag, a planner for the Boston Transportation Department who once co-authored a report on "Vision Zero" - the idea of redesigning roads and transportation systems to eliminate fatal crashes on urban streets. Read more.

Developer proposes turning historic building downtown with even more historic views into apartments

July 9

A developer best known for his projects in South Boston and Dorchester has won a long-term lease from the National Park Service to convert the 11-story office building next to the Old State House into 45 apartments.

Friendly flyover by British fighter jets

July 10

Adam Balsam captured the Royal Air Force Red Arrows flying over Boston yesterday. They'll be back tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. flying over the Tall Ships.

Man charged for all the explosives and wires police say he brought on a commuter train - which he bragged about to other riders

July 9

A Boston man is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail on charges related to all the explosives and wires and stuff Transit Police say he brought with him on a train into North Station one night last month - which police found out about because he started proclaiming to other riders he wanted to make bombs and give them to extremists and terrorist groups and the homeless.

Data on a cell phone is as much evidence as blood on clothes, court rules, throwing a possible lifeline to a man fighting his conviction for a 2013 Dorchester murder

July 9

Even though it has already upheld Javaine Watson's first-degree murder conviction for the murder of Romeo McCubbin on Havelock Street in Dorchester in 2013, the Supreme Judicial Court today gave him and his lawyer permission to have "forensic testing" done of several phones seized after the murder in an attempt to make his case that he had nothing to do with the murder and that he was framed by one of the other three men who were also convicted - and that guy's allegedly lying girlfriend.

Mejia cites dehydration, exhaustion for collapse; Man shot to death in Allston

311 complaint of the day: Who left a pile of rotting fish behind a historic house in Dorchester? July 19 An olfactorily offended resident filed a 311 complaint about today about the growing stench behind the historic James Blake House, 735 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester ... Deer with its ducks in

People demand safer roads; guy charged with shooting at cops

But first, this morning dawned bright and early and full of storrowing goodness: Somebody in a rental truck ignored the "CARS ONLY" signs and did a 10-out-of-1o storrowing inbound at the BU Bridge around 5 a.m: Truck completely destroyed, roof peeled back and laying

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The state Department of Environmental Protection forecast for today: "Wildfire smoke from Canada will continue to enter the region and influence particle pollution levels. Fine particle levels are forecast to average in the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (USG) range." And by "sensitive groups," they mean seniors,

One man with black T and shiesty, other in gray hoodie, their Civic.

Two sought for stabbing at Roslindale cemetery

Boston Police report they are looking for two guys and a Honda Civic for a stabbing at St. Michael Cemetery, 500 Canterbury St. in Roslindale, around 6:10 a.m. on Saturday. Read more. After-hours brawl left once promising amateur boxer from Ireland bleeding from several stab wounds outside