Councilors want action on dogs; seek Roxbury police-shooting video
Worker at shuttered dispensary sues over unpaid wages
April 16
A worker at one of the now closed Pure Oasis dispensaries yesterday sued over the wages and vacation pay she says she was owed when the downtown and Grove Hall shops closed last week.
Two councilors getting a little tired of some dog owners' crap
April 16
City Councilors Erin Murphy (at large) and Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Downtown, Chinatown) want city animal-control and parks officials to explain how they plan to curb out-of-control, unleashed, unlicensed and free defecating dogs in Boston.
Councilor demands bodycam footage from that Roxbury police shooting, setting up confrontation with police commissioner
April 16
The Boston City Council yesterday approved a formal request by Councilor Miniard Culpepper (Roxbury) to the Boston Police Department for bodycam video from the March shooting death that's led to a manslaughter charge against the officer who fired the fatal shot.
311 complaint of the day: The rooster crows at sunrise
April 16
A disgruntled Red Line commuter in Dorchester filed a 311 complaint about the early morning reverie on the way to Shawmut being crudely interrupted.
The one time it pays to have a wooden leg
April 16
Hahd-chahgin' Globe reporter Emily Sweeney recounts how her grandfather made newspapers across the country the time he fell on the tracks at Park Street and his leg came into contact with the third rail, but he lived because his leg was wooden. Also reports on why this summah could be a real scawcha.
Dorchester native to become next Boston fire commissioner
April 16
The Dorchester Reporter gets the scoop: Mayor Wu is appointing Deputy Chief Rodney Marshall, who has served more than 30 years in ...
