In South Boston, a parade and the fate of a large Dot Ave parcel now in court

In South Boston, a parade and the fate of a large Dot Ave parcel now in court
It was the 1950s all over again in Readville on Sunday.

Man shot in the neck in the South End

March 15

A man was shot at Washington and East Berkeley street in the South End around 7:40 p.m.

Nice day for a parade

March 15

Our roaming UHub parade correspondent is in the heart of South Boston for the St. Patrick's Day parade. 

Two BC students plummet 15 feet to the ground due to rotten deck railing

March 15

The Heights reports two Boston College students at an off-campus party on Undine Road in Brighton on Friday were injured when the railing they were learning against gave way, sending them to the ground.

Say, is this the train to Grand Central Terminal?

March 15

The Fairmount Line was the retro-ist commuter line today, with one train propelled by a diesel from the New York Central, which went out of business in 1968.

Two teens used fake gun in holdup attempt at Green Street Orange Line stop

March 15

Transit Police report arresting two teenagers on charges they went up to somebody at the  Orange Line Green stop around 9 a.m. on Friday and demanded his jacket after showing him a gun - which turned out to be a replica. Nearby Transit officers spotted the commotion, outran the two teens and arrested them on charges of being delinquent on account of ...

South Boston smorgasborg

March 15

Transit Police vowed they'd be confiscating borgs, and they did: Here's their initial haul of blackout rage gallons and assorted other containers at Broadway station on the Red Line. 

Two-alarm fire erupts at Hyde Park's Westinghouse Plaza; firefighter injured

March 14

Boston firefighters responded to the three-story Building F at Westinghouse Plaza, off Neponset Valley Parkway in Hyde Park shortly before 8 p.m. for what quickly became a second-alarm fire in a rear building at the complex.

311 complaint of the day: It was like a building on Comm Ave in Brighton was falling to pieces

March 14

A distraught resident filed a 311 complaint about the large sheets of building material that came flying off the roof of 1800 Commonwealth Ave. in the wind today, like a reprise of an old SCTV intro, but more dangerous because it ...

Brookline man who taught at the Quincy Upper School gets 10 years for online sexual exploitation of girls

March 14

A federal judge yesterday sentenced John Magee Gavin, 35, to ten years in prison and five years of probation for coercing girls across the US and overseas to gratify him sexually via images on a Discord server, even as he was teaching their peers science lessons at the Josiah Quincy Upper School in Chinatown.

South Boston developer sues over bid to take away his Dot Ave holdings but judge won't stop planned Tuesday auction

March 13

Developer Andrew Collins today sued a New York construction-company owner who has hired an auctioneer for a Tuesday sale of a more than 5-acre swath  along Dorchester and Old Colony avenues that Collins spent several years acquiring. 

At least temporarily, judge blocks regime's plan to begin booting Somalis on Tuesday

March 14

A federal judge yesterday ordered a halt to the regime's planned March 17 end of refugee status for Somalis, because the regime has yet to tell her what's so damn important about booting them now. 

South Station commuter trains stopped going clickity clack when the wheels on one car slipped off the track

March 13

WCVB reports getting home on commuter rail out of South Station this afternoon became a major travail due to the "slow speed derailment" of wheels on on one car of an outbound Providence Line train approaching Back Bay. No injuries at least.

Police say MBTA bus driver might have been asleep when his bus crashed into cars, houses in Medford

March 13

Transit Police said today they are seeking criminal charges against a route 95 driver for the way his bus crashed into "several vehicles and two buildings" at Playstead Road and Madison Street in Medford shortly before 2 a.m. on Sunday.

Massachusetts sets up online site to report ICE misconduct

March 13

Gov. Maura Healey and Attorney General Andrea Campbell today announces an online form for residents to report ICE goons doing the sort of things we've come to expect.

'A toddler babbling as she’s questioned by a judge'

March 13

WBUR reports on the star chambers at immigration courts in Boston and Chelmsford where children - yes, including toddlers - are sometimes left alone to explain to a Justice Department "judge" why they shouldn't be deported.

Boston lawyers behaving badly: Two members of the local bar ordered to prison for stealing client money

March 13

Two Boston lawyers, one in state court, one in federal court, were each sentenced yesterday to more than three years in prison for stealing money from accounts they'd set up for clients.

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