Incredible shrinking river; Rogue Back Bay spritzer; ICE cruelty

Incredible shrinking river;  Rogue Back Bay spritzer; ICE cruelty
On Saturday, a sandpiper walked across the Charles at Millennium Park in West Roxbury - the four-foot-wide, two-inch-deep Charles River.

Rogue woman with a spray bottle wanted for at least two Back Bay water spritizings

August 24

Stanley Staco reports a woman walked into the Newbury Street Shack Shack and spritzed water on people who didn't ask to be spritzed this afternoon, and that she did the same thing at Mass. Ave. and Comm. Ave earlier in the day. She's described as in her 50s, with a...

Person shot in the stomach on Savin Hill

August 24

A man was shot in the stomach at Savin Hill Avenue and Old Colony Terrace in Dorchester, around 5:50 p.m. on Friday.

ICE releases woman it held for 10 days by shoving her out the door in the pouring rain with no way to contact her husband 30 miles away; she gets help at a Cheesecake Factory

August 24

The cruelty is the point: MassLive.com reports that ICE, which had held a Canton woman for ten days, shuttling her around two states, including four days...

Bentley student caught in Venmo pyramid scheme sues because he was the only one expelled after allegedly unfair disciplinary process

August 24

A Bentley University student last week sued the school for expelling him just three weeks before graduation, saying he was the only participant in a long-running school Venmo scheme who got suspended and that the school ignored evidence that far from bullying another participant - at bible study, no less - he tried to help him out....

Member of a group of men dressed all in black, holding their waists as they ran across a Roxbury intersection, is nabbed with a gun loaded with 15 bullets, police say

August 24

Boston Police report officers who spotted a group of men appearing to be up to no good at the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Washington Street in Roxbury around 12:20 a.m. on Saturday moved in for a closer look...

Salem State radio station WMWM off the air

August 24

WMWM has been off the air for months, does anybody have any info on this and more importantly, is WMWM coming back?

311 complaint of the day: Tasteless students in the Fenway

August 23

A disgusted resident files a 311 complaint about the situation outside some apartment buildings on Symphony Road in the Fenway.

Tiny little shorebird walks across the Charles

August 23

The Charles River between the kayak launch and Saw Mill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury is now so narrow and shallow that even the smallest of shorebirds can easily walk across it - and the spryer people could probably jump across it - or just walk across it if they have boots on, or don't mind sinking into some mud....

Teen with a loaded gun in Nubian Square learns that sometimes victims fight back, police say

August 23

Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old after, they say, he tried robbing somebody at gunpoint on Zeigler Street in Nubian Square Thursday afternoon, only to have his would-be victim grab his gun away from him....

Person shot on Old Road near Columbia Road in Dorchester

August 23

A person was shot in the thigh at Old Road and Michigan Avenue, just before Columbia Road, around 10:40 a.m.

Judge tells regime it can't halt funds to Boston and Cambridge just because they won't help ICE drag away brown people

August 23

A federal judge in San Francisco who had already ruled the regime could not deny Congressionally appropriated funds to several cities, mainly on the West Coast, because they're too woke for the Convicted Felon in Chief yesterday extended his order to nearly three dozen more cities, including Boston and Cambridge....

Person stabbed at Logan car-rental center

August 22

State Police and Boston EMS responded to the area of Porter Street and Transportation Way at Logan Airport after a person was stabbed in the upper left back there around 10:20 a.m.

Man shot on Charlotte Street in Dorchester; two arrested after standoff with SWAT unit

August 22

Boston Police report a man was shot several times at 24 Charlotte St., in Dorchester around 4:50 p.m.

Man charged with July murder in Jamaica Plain

August 22

Boston Police report arresting a Foxboro man on charges he murdered somebody at 56 Patten St. in Jamaica Plain on July 6.

Regional ICE Tough Lady says she grew up in a safer Boston - but, no, she didn't

August 22

"I grew up in Boston and I know what a safe Boston looks like and this isn't it," Hyde said on Fox News the other day.

Oh, really?

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