Charred cars in Brighton garage; Lynn ferries slowed due to whales
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 go hard on whoever took her soft-serve cone
May 3
Here's the scoop: Joanne Chang, owner of Flour on the Common (and all the other Flours) is offering some baked goods to whoever returns Swirly the cone to his accustomed spot outside the sweets kiosk.
The JP statue with the eyes that would bleed if you stared at her too long
May 3
Emily Sweeney spends some time at the MFA with the Statue of Gloria, which used to stand off Allandale Street in JP, scaring the hell out of area teens convinced she would bleed from the eyes or even move her head to watch you on their late-night visits. The MFA says the statue's name is Juno and she was shipped over here from Europe, but anybody who visited her in the 80s knows her name is Gloria and her body was inhabited by the ghost of a murdered nurse.
Enterprising Scots figure out how to bypass usurious MBTA and private-bus fares to the World Cup
May 3
GBH reports a group of Scottish fans in Rhode Island have charted a ton of yellow school buses to get Scotland fans to Gillette for the match against Haiti - for just $38 a person roundtrip ...
Man wanted for committing lewd metaphor on a Green Line trolley
May 3
Transit Police have put out an APB for a guy wanted for indecent assault on a B Line trolley between Arlington and Babcock around 6 p.m. on April 15. Specifically, he "committed a lewd act and left DNA behind."
Remember when Boston was Title Town?
May 2
Not a good couple of days in Boston sportsdom: The Bruins and Celtics were eliminated, the Boston Fleet lost and the Red Sox, well, were the Red Sox.
Athol man already charged with selling drugs in Downtown Crossing and Allston arrested on charges of selling drugs outside the Copley Square library
May 2
Boston Police report officers arrested an Athol man after allegedly watching him get high on his own supply - of fentanyl, some of which he had just sold to a couple of people this afternoon.
Lynn ferry riders can tell tales of rides slowed by all the right whales
May 2
Since last week, the MBTA has cut back on the number of ferries between Lynn and Boston and slowed the speed of the ones still running due to the sighting of endangered right whales in Broad Sound - the body of water between Lynn, Nahant, Revere and Winthrop - as the whales return to their summer feeding grounds.
Court re-affirms man's conviction for murdering two Dorchester supermarket security guards - in 1971
May 2
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that Raymond White, convicted along with another man for gunning down two security guards at a supermarket on Columbia Road in Dorchester in 1971, got a fair trial and so deserves to spend the rest of what's left of his life in prison.
DA: Convicted sex offender spent an hour in a stall in a Northeastern cafeteria women's room; peered under partition when woman entered adjoining stall
May 1
A man with a conviction for indecent assault and battery was arrested Wednesday after he ran out of the women's room in a Northeastern University dorm cafeteria - in which a woman employee reported he spotted him craning his neck at her under a partition when she entered a neighboring stall, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
A day of protests on the Common
May 1
Throughout the day, different groups held May Day protests on the Common. Around 3 p.m., protesters from as far as Springfield gathered by the steps up to the State House to say enough with ICE.
Oy, guttenyu: S&S Deli is closing
May 1
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that the venerable S&S Deli in Inman Square is closing in June, after more than a century serving area fressers.
Farewell Fung Wah
May 1
OK, we were not looking for Fung Wah music. But we did want to see Dorchester's own Ayo Edeberi's remembrance of the flaming bus service this morning, did so, and then when we returned to YouTube later to call up some music, Google remembered and so stuck "Farewell Fung Wah" into our YouTube playlist.
Man raced behind an ambulance, barreled through Roxbury red light with a loaded gun under his seat, police say
May 1
Boston Police report gang-unit officers arrested a man they say was chasing an ambulance with its lights and sirens going, right through a red light on Warren Street in Roxbury Thursday night, while ...
Board says Nubian Square liquor store not to blame for loitering, littering, public drinking
May 1
The Boston Licensing Board concluded yesterday there's only so much the owner of Castillo Wine and Spirits on Washington Street in Nubian Square can do to combat a growing wave of loitering and littering on his block that he says seems to have begun after the city's latest push to clean up Mass and Cass sent people from there into Nubian Square.
Judge unmasks ICE agent in suit over whether he choked a man into unconsciousness
May 1
A federal judge has rejected a call from the regime to hide the name of an ICE agent based in Boston who now faces a lawsuit from a Fitchburg man who says he was already being restrained by another agent when the guy applied a chokehold that caused him to lose consciousness and begin to convulse.
