Driver to be arraigned today for allegedly intentionally running down a man walking his dog in the Back Bay
Man walking dog on Commonwealth Avenue Mall is run down and killed by motorist; DA says driver 'intentionally' rammed him
January 4
Updated 5 p.m.
Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report the arrest of man they say deliberately ran down somebody walking his dog on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall near Hereford Street in the Back Bay around 8 a.m. on Saturday....
One of the Allston Car Wash 9 remains in ICE lockup as regime says that after 20 years in the US, he's still a flight risk
January 5
With seven of the nine Allston Car Wash workers grabbed by an ICE squad on Nov. 4 now free on bond, one remains locked up because of regime assertions that he is a flight risk due to a 20-year-old deportation ruling - issued after a hearing he says he missed because he was illiterate and was unable to read the notice of the hearing's time and place.
Riding the Red Line is a roll of the dice; so far today, it's gone on the fritz twice
January 4
At 6:22 a.m., the MBTA reported 15-minute delays on the Red Line due to a newly unalive train near Davis. The T cleared that problem a little more than an hour later, just in time to declare, at 9:32 a.m., new 15-minute delays while "personnel inspect the track area at Park St." They found or fixed whatever they were looking for and normal...
Bostonians hold quick-reaction protest against regime's kidnapping of Venezuelan president, his wife
January 3
Ron Newman attended the protest at Park Street downtown and filed photos.
The mood on the B line didn't lighten when a wire came down on a train in Brighton
January 3
The MBTA is currently bustituting between Boston College and Packards Corner as crews repair damage from a wire that came down on an outbound two-car trolley right in the middle of Chestnut Hill Avenue around 12:30 p.m.
Judge won't block Wu's re-inauguration; rules would-be mayoral candidate failed to prove city officials, signature requirements conspired against him
January 3
A federal judge yesterday rejected a request from a would-be mayoral candidate for a preliminary injunction that would have required a re-do of the November election with his name on the ballot - which would have blocked Mayor Wu's inauguration on Monday....
Whether they're during days or nights, signal problems near Orient Heights
January 3
At 8:47 a.m., the MBTA reported ten-minute delays on the Blue Line due to signal problems between Wood Island and Orient Heights; reported at 10:18 that the problem had been fixed.
State moves to allow widespread consumption of Boston Harbor shellfish for first time in a century
January 2
State fisheries officials have announced another victory in the decades-long effort to clean up Boston Harbor: For the first time since 1925, shellfish from sections of the coast along the outer harbor is fit for human consumption....
Man charged with trying to sell stolen skis on Facebook Marketplace - where the victim spotted them - police say
January 2
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man they say thought he was going to offload some stolen skis at a profit yesterday only to learn the buyers were actually two undercover cops acting on information...
Judge orders immigrant released immediately, rather than shipped to some gulag down south to await a bond hearing
January 2
A Boston federal judge today ordered ICE to immediately release a Brazilian national to await a bond hearing, rather than keeping her behind bars to await that hearing since that would likely involve shipping her hundreds of miles away due to its lack of women's holding facilities in Massachusetts....
Roslindale Square bar could be replaced by Mexican/Salvadoran restaurant
January 2
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Napper Tandy's, 4195 Washington St. in Roslindale, is looking to shut down and sell its liquor license to La Hacienda, which currently has locations in East...
Somebody decapitated birds and threw their headless bodies onto the ice on the Mother Brook in Dedham
January 2
Dedham Animal Control reports it's trying to find who "may have been responsible for beheading and dumping a variety of domestic birds" onto the ice now covering the Mother Brook off Sawmill Lane, behind the...
They're not normally winter peeves: D Line stopped due to burning leaves
January 2
Brookline firefighters responded to the Green Line tracks behind the Unified Arts Building on Tappan Street around 7:35 a.m. when some leaves on the inbound side caught fire.
It's like the Red Line had a stroke because signals in Quincy broke
January 2
At 7:30 a.m., the MBTA reported that "a signal problem" at Quincy Center meant 15-minute delays on Red Line service to and from Braintree. The T gave the all clear at 8:58.
