Firefighter dies at fire; judge reads ICE for filth
Remembering the fallen in Scollay Square
May 25
This photo, from the New York Public Library's digital collection, is titled "Scollay's square, parade on Decoration Day."
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May 25
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Make way for goslings and more goslings and even more goslings
May 24
Mary Ellen spotted this goosey conga line outside the old West Roxbury High School the other day.
Firefighter dies in fall at three-alarm Dorchester fire
May 23
The Boston Fire Department reports that firefighter Robert T. Kilduff died from a fall at a 3-alarm fire at 18 Treadway Rd. in Dorchester.
Judge sanctions ICE for complete disregard of the truth, the Constitution and basic human decency in the case of an immigrant with epilepsy
May 23
A Boston federal judge this week ordered ICE to permanently leave an Ecuadorean woman alone, to give him proof that ICE lawyers have explained to a senior ICE official in Boston why the judge lost all faith in his ability to carry out the law and to pay all of the woman's legal fees and court costs to get her out of a for-profit Louisiana gulag.
Man fresh out of jail on a gun sentence charged with a shooting on Dacia Street in Dorchester
May 23
Boston Police report arresting a man they say shot another man at 25 Dacia St. between Dove and Quincy streets in Dorchester around 1:20 a.m. on May 13.
New cause to protest for, just not too vigorously
May 23
Shamus Moynihan spotted this rebel with a cause at Tremont and Stuart streets yesterday. No word if he's been attending college commencements to boo at speakers pushing AI.
Second suspect in Roxbury, Roslindale bank jobs called pals at the Suffolk County jail to boast about the heists, feds say
May 23
A West Yarmouth man with a record dating to his teens has been named as the second suspect in a failed Roxbury bank robbery and a more successful job at a Roslindale bank that netted him $3,000 - money the feds say he may have still had with him when he crashed the Honda Civic he was living in into a light pole in Springfield a couple weeks later.
$5 gas comes to Boston, but with an asterisk
May 22
Benjamin Lipiecki shows us the Gulf station at Market and North Beacon streets in Brighton is now well above $5 a gallon for gas.
Chelsea man charged as PoS who burned two toddlers on purpose and beat one of them
May 22
Kenner Bautista-Zepeda, 19, of Chelsea, was ordered held without bail today pending a dangerousness hearing next Thursday on a dozen charges for violently attacking two children and one of their mothers, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports....
Crosswalk as statement on the futility of life in the modern age
May 22
Modern art isn't always hard to figure out. What this particular new striped objet d'art on State Street says is: "Life sucks and then you die after you cross this street and run headlong into that light pole."
Life imitates ducks
May 22
Even in retirement, Officer Mike would help Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings safely cross Beacon at Charles to get to the lagoon in the Public Garden, as Roy G. Biv noticed this morning.
Man shot to death on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester
May 22
Boston Police report a man was fatally shot at 260 Bowdoin St., across from Draper Street in Dorchester, around 1:05 a.m.
Dorchester teen charged with shooting one in barrage at Charlestown apartment building
May 22
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old from Dorchester on charges he fired at least 12 rounds into and around the apartment building at 76 Monument St. in Charlestown's Bunker Hill development around 2:25 p.m. on May 11 - and hit one...
They-did-it: Developer to keep iconic sign as it converts old building off 128 in Needham from electronics to office space
May 22
Needham Local reports that Onyx Partners, a local real-estate investment and development company, has bought the building off 128 that was home to You-do-it until 2024.
Judge wastes little time ordering immigrant freed after ICE fails to answer his basic questions about the case
May 22
A judge yesterday ordered immediate freedom for an immigrant who'd filed a request for release just the previous day - after ICE failed to provide any justification for holding him, not even so much as an arrest warrant.
