Holiday gets off to good start, ends with 2 dead in gun violence
Gun battle leaves one dead, five others injured on George Street in Roxbury
July 5
Boston Police report three people were shot on George Street near Langdon Street in Roxbury around 3:14 a.m.
Four shot in Grove Hall, one dead
July 5
Boston Police report four people were shot at Blue Hill Avenue and Castlegate Road in Dorchester around 12:36 a.m.
311 complaint of the day: Current thief in JP
July 5
A disgusted EV owner files a 311 complaint about some shocking behavior in the municipal lot behind Centre Street in Jamaica Plain.
Child injured in fire on Maple Street in Roxbury
July 5
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 1 Maple St. in Roxbury at 8:45 a.m. for what quickly turned into a two-alarm fire that caused the roof to collapse.
After the storm cell passed, a rainbow
July 4
Amy Salvucci captured the rainbow over the South End this evening.
Possible lightning storm forces evacuation of Esplanade; evacuees jammed into Storrow tunnel break into patriotic song
July 4
Update: The cell passed over the area and so people were allowed to return to the banks of the Charles.
State Police began evacuating the Esplanade and the Cambridge side of the Charles shortly after 6:20 p.m. after the National Weather Service warned of a thunderstorm, with "cloud to ground lightning" possibly headed to the...
Bostonians throng July 4th celebrations
July 4
The Fort Pointer got to the Old State House 20 minutes before the annual reading of the Declaration of Independence this morning, on the 250th anniversary of that document, and found the area in front of the historic building already full of people on a sweltering hot day.
The commemorations actually started at 9 a.m., in Copley Square, where a parade began to march up Boylston and Tremont streets - with the Old State House the ultimate destination.
Man shot to death in Cambridge
July 4
Cambridge Police report Xavier Bautista, 32, of Cambridge, was shot to death at Broadway and Norfolk Street around 4:30 a.m.
Jaylen Brown was more than just a basketball player
July 3
NBC Boston talks to people about Brown's impact on the community.
Must be something awfully tasty, and dead, on Fairmount Hill
July 3
Gretchen Van Ness looked up from her home on Fairmount Hill in Hyde Park yesterday evening to see way more circling turkey vultures than we thought existed in the entire state:
Sun signals summer scorcher
July 3
Mary Ellen was up before the crack of dawn and at Millennium Park to watch the sun come up over the fields at the old West Roxbury High this morning. Reports it was OK at first on her morning walk, but turned "quite warm" by the end.
14-year-old charged with May shooting on Milton Avenue in Dorchester
July 3
Boston Police report arresting a 14-year-old from Dorchester on charges he shot another 14-year-old on Milton Avenue near Fuller Street in Dorchester around 8 p.m. on May 6.
Suspect in 2017 car-chase murder outside BSO arrested in North Carolina, police say
July 3
Boston Police report the man charged with killing Brent Stevenson in a Massachusetts Avenue car chase that started at Newbury Street and ended with Stevenson dead in a crashed car at Huntington Avenue in 2017 was arrested in Charlotte, NC.
