Fire hits six East Boston triple deckers
East Boston triple decker erupts in flames, which spread to neighboring houses
May 17
Boston firefighters responded around 6 p.m. to 263 Princeton St., a triple decker just past Prescott Street in East Boston, for what turned into a four-alarm fire that spread to five other triple deckers on Princeton and Saratoga streets before it was knocked down....
Motorcyclist critically injured in crash on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury
May 17
Boston and State Police and Boston EMS responded to the outbound side of VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, across from the Parkway nursing home for a crash that sent a motorcyclist to the hospital with critical injuries around 11:45 a.m.
Quincy man charged with beating two men in the head in Dorchester home invasion
May 17
Boston Police report arresting a Quincy man on charges he burst into an apartment in Dorchester's Franklin Field development, smashed one man in the face and the other in the head in a robbery around 2:50 a.m. on April 20.
311 complaint of the day: For goodness snake
May 17
A concerned resident filed a 311 report this morning about a sunning South End snake, at Concord Square and Tremont Street.
Imagine a skyscraper of Korean barbecue
May 17
Gen Korean BBQ, a national chain that proposed a two-story Korean barbecue place on Harvard Avenue in Allston, is now proposing a four-story Korean barbecue place in Harvard Square, the Cambridge/Somerville Independent reports.
The black helicopter over Hyde Park is less sinister than it seems
May 16
The black helicopter that has been flying back and forth, back and forth, and low to the ground along Hyde Park Avenue in recent days is not the vanguard of an invasion by the UN or Kid Rock, but simply a rent-a-chopper hired by Amtrak to scan the Northeast Corridor for any possible issues - like trees - in the catenary lines and the poles that hold them up along the nation's busiest rail corridor.
Bus-stop traffic jam
May 16
Ari Ofsevit reports he took this photo on a Silver Line bus at South Station last night - a bus that was just sitting there, waiting to pull in, for five minutes.
311 complaint of the day: This is Boston, not NYC
May 16
A grossed out resident filed a 311 complaint this morning about the Eternal Trash Pile at Tremont and Northampton streets ...
Set off by a $20,000 tuition bill, BU Law student spiraled into a frenzy of threatening Instagram posts and email messages aimed at the school, DA says
May 15
A Boston University Law School student with gun training was arrested at Logan Airport after returning from an oversea journey that included stays in Paris and China - from which he posted a series of images on Instagram threatening BU in general, and two deans in particular, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
What does Anthropologie know about Newbury Street shoppers that we don't?
May 15
A roving and put-out UHub photographer shares this view of a display inside the Newbury Street Anthropologie. Really? Weirdly colored Yankees caps? When did we become the Sixth Borough?
Fans debate the big Boston/Pittsburgh trade
May 15
We learned yesterday where Little Joe is being traded: The Pittsburgh Zoo. In exchange for the seasoned veteran, we'll be getting Frankie, a rookie with potential. Fans raced online to ponder the trade.
While ICE was busy grabbing grad students and high-school volleyball players, it was ignoring an armed career criminal
May 15
Boston Police report arresting a Jamaican national living in Hyde Park on various gun charges - among them, being an armed career criminal for offenses that date back decades and which have led to him being deported at least once
