Couple sues Liberty Hotel over bathroom incident; immigrant awaiting emergency surgery shackled to bed
Two women ordered out of Liberty Hotel restroom sue hotel for discrimination, defamation
January 15
A couple ordered out of a Liberty Hotel women's room by a male guard who alleged one of them was a man today sued the hotel for both the way that incident happened and for what they say was the hotel making up stuff to try to cover for both the guard and itself.
Condos turned into cubbyholes
January 15
John McMahon provides a drone's-eye update on the demolition of the ill-fated Riverview Condominiums, 121 Mt. Auburn St. in Cambridge, which were evacuated last year after inspectors found major problems in the 1960s building.
Vineyard Wind sues regime over alleged national-defense reasons for stopping its work on a project the Pentagon had already approved
January 15
Vineyard Wind, whose wind farm south of the Islands is already generating electricity, today sued the regime, charging its decision to keep it from finishing a project the Pentagon had signed off on not only violates the Constitution and federal law, but will deprive New Englanders of renewable, reliable and cheaper energy and possibly drive...
Judge ordered immediate freedom for immigrant whom ICE had shackled to her hospital bed as she awaited emergency surgery
January 15
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Boston ordered ICE to immediately release a woman it grabbed in December, then had shackled by her wrists and ankles in a hospital for the emergency gallbladder surgery she needed and refused to let her speak to her lawyer or tell the judge how it would ensure she got necessary followup care after a planned transfer to Texas.
Truckers keep America rolling even after they've hit the underside of a bridge
January 15
Roving UHub photographer Shamus Moynihan spotted this freshly shorn and partially disassembled truck tooling down South Huntington Avenue in Jamaica Plain today. That's pretty far from the river roads, and even the train bridges that sometimes mean a storrowing in West Roxbury, so we don't know where the driver got his truck's haircut.
Phantom Gourmet's figured out why Time Out Market's closing: No Wahlburgers or attorney Jim Sokolove
January 15
Note: It was a joke, they claim.
The Phantom Gourmet is claiming it's going to take over the failed Time Out Market in the Fenway and fill it with Wahlburgers, cheesesteaks and pu-pu platters, all dished up around a new bar, with celebrity...
Gooey death
January 15
At 12:40 p.m., take a moment to remember the 21 people and several horses who died in 1919, when the Purity Distilling Co.'s poorly maintained molasses tank on Commercial Street in the North End burst, sending a tsunami of treacly brown death down Commercial Street, drowning people and beast alike, taking down buildings and ...
