ICE doesn't wait for conviction of alleged surgery-performing non-doctor
ICE grabs woman charged with performing illegal eyelid surgery in Allston, lawyer says
February 10
A Suffolk Superior Court hearing about a Newton woman charged with passing herself off as a plastic surgeon and performing eyelid surgery in a Packards Corner apartment building had to be called off Monday when her lawyer said she was now in ICE detention.
A Boston mini-herd
February 10
Three deer spent a few minutes along Sawmill Brook just upstream from the Charles at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this afternoon, before they got tired of having their pictures taken and bounded away.
Neiman Markdown: Chain pulling out of Copley Place
February 10
The troubled Saks empire that bought Neiman Marcus a couple years ago doesn't think its Neiman Marcus store at Copley Place will generate the increased amounts of profit it needs to emerge from bankruptcy, so it's...
Here's the latest Blue Line woe: No power means trains can't go
February 10
At 3:25 p.m., the MBTA reported a "power problem" at Suffolk Downs has stopped Blue Line service. Oh, and that the Boston Fire Department is investigating "a report of smoke" at the one-time horsiest of T stops.
The Red Line continues to fester: Another dead train in Dorchester
February 10
Update: The T reports workers have taking care of ol' Hoss, but that riders can expect residual 30-minute delays.
The MBTA reports delays "of about 25 minutes" on the Ashmont branch due to a train that has joined the choir eternal at Fields Corner. The T's maintaining some semblance of service by alternating inbound and outbound ...
Cozy pied-a-terre with stunning views in the heart of it all
February 10
Roving UHub photographer Alan Peckersson reports somebody built this igloo on the Greenway near Rowes Wharf about a week ago and has set up housekeeping - or perhaps is renting it out as an Airbnb.
Gun report at Uphams Corner bar ends with melee, multiple arrests outside downtown bar
February 10
A report by a man who says he was threatened by somebody with a gun and knife at Dublin House on Stoughton Street in Dorchester early on Nov. 18 turned into a fracas on Broad Street downtown that ended with officers responding from across the city and the arrest of not just the alleged gunman, but several people police say kept trying to...
AI company anonymizes interviews about how people feel about AI; Northeastern professor uses AI to deanonymize them
February 10
Northeastern News reports how how Tianshi Li, an assistant professor of computer science, used an AI tool to find out who Anthropic conducted supposedly anonymous interviews about AI using its own AI interviewing tool.
Brigham and Women's perfects time travel
February 10
But for some reason, they've confined their experiment to their Francis Street garage.
Justice Department functionary terminates Homeland Security bid to force Tufts grad student out of the country
February 10
Cambridge Day reports that an immigration judge - a Justice Department employee - says Homeland Security failed to prove the legal need to boot Tufts education grad student Rümeysa Öztürk out of the country ASAP and so terminated the attempt. Homeland Security, led by a woman who sees nothing wrong with murdering dogs, could appeal the ruling to the Board of Immigration Appeals.
