Grim Reaper comes back to haunt Harvard Medical School
Over the moon
October 6
Adam Balsam watched the dual sunset/moonrise over Logan Airport this evening, specifically, at 6:07 p.m. "about 5 minutes before sunset and 12 minutes after the moon rose."
Love that dirty water? Health officials advise against fishing or swimming in the Charles River Basin
October 6
OK, you probably shouldn't be eating fish out of the Charles River Basin anyway, but even doubly so now: The Cambridge Public Health Department alerts us to a cyanobacteria bloom in the river downstream from the River Street/Cambridge Street Bridge....
Man sues downtown restaurant over the way he says he was shot by guy who smuggled gun in under his hat
October 6
A man who says he was shot in the leg and buttocks by a man inside Fete, 25 Kingston St. downtown early on March 8 today sued the bar, its security guards and the two guys charged with opening fire with a gun the bar failed to catch when they let them in....
Private equity firm that owns shuttered Carney Hospital hires developer behind Government Center Garage and Suffolk Downs re-dos to do something with its nearly 13-acre site
October 6
The Dorchester Reporter reports that the New York private-equity firm that controlled and shut Carney Hospital has hired Tom O'Brien of the HYM Investment Group to figure out what to do with its 12.7-acre site along Dorchester Avenue. O'Brien...
Six-story apartment building could replace repair garage in Mattapan Square
October 6
Developer Solmon Chowdhury today filed plans for a six-story, 58-unit apartment building at 1576 Blue Hill Ave. at Babson Street in Mattapan Square.
Man sought for early morning stabbing in Downtown Crossing
October 6
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say stabbed somebody at School and Province streets downtown around 6 a.m. on Sept. 16.
Grim Reaper comes back to haunt Harvard Medical School as court reinstates suits over the way its morgue manager sliced off and sold body parts
October 6
The Supreme Judicial Court today reinstated lawsuits by family members of people who donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School - where, for years, the morgue manager carved up bodies to re-sell parts on the body-part black market....
One woman dead, another critical after hit-and-run driver slams into them on South Huntington Avenue
October 6
WFXT reports on the crash on South Huntington Avenue near the Back of the Hill trolley stop around 9:35 p.m. on Sunday. One of the victims, 77, died; her walker remained at...
Dynamic sunrise over Boston
October 6
Handmaid was up before the crack of dawn to watch the sun come up over the Back Bay and Downtown from the top of Peters Hill in the Arnold Arboretum.