Judges busy ordering grabbed immigrants set free
A fitting grave marker for the video that killed the radio star
October 12
Hi11ary spotted this tubestone in a row of grave markers on display at Wellsmere Monuments on Washington Street at the Forest Hills/Roslindale line.
Simple repaving not enough to make Hyde Park Avenue safe, Forest Hills residents say
October 12
Forest Hills residents and people who travel Hyde Park Avenue yesterday held a "safety walk" to look at everything that's wrong on the road and come up with ways to press a City Hall administration into making safety improvements - nearly a year after a Forest Hills man died under the wheels of a turning MBTA bus at Forest Hills station when both had a green light, and almost a week after a hearing at which administration officials announced a plan that consisted mainly of repaving the road.
For third time this weekend, federal judge refuses to let immigrant remain locked up just because ICE doesn't seem to know how to process payments
October 12
A federal judge this morning ordered ICE to immediately release an immigrant whose $1,500 bond payment ICE seems unable to process.
For second time today, a judge orders the immediate release of an immigrant ICE is still holding even though he should have been freed
October 11
A federal judge late tonight ordered the immediate release of a man who had paid his required bond to be released from an ICE-funded cell at the Plymouth County jail but who was still sitting there because ICE is being particularly slow to process his payment....
Judge orders immediate release of man grabbed by ICE after its agents forced him to crash his pickup in Malden
October 11
A federal judge today ordered the regime to immediately release a man ICE employees pulled out of his pickup in Malden after they drove in front of him and slammed on their brakes, forcing him to rear end them on Sept. 17.
Three shot on Hiawatha Road in Mattapan, at least one in critical
October 11
Three people were shot, one in the chest, at 2 Hiawatha Rd. at Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan shortly after 1:20 p.m.
311 complaint of the day: Boston chutes shouldn't need ladders to cross
October 11
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint about the tripping hazard caused by this depressed former coal chute on Braddock Park in the South End.
Masshole plays a game of inches with an MBTA bus in Andrew Square and loses, police say
October 11
Transit Police report a Boston guy, 39, tried to inch by a bus parked at Andrew Square around 8 p.m. on Thursday, and might have made it but his coordination was a bit off and so he wedged his car between the bus and the median. Police charged him with OUI and also with trying to leave the scene of an accident.
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Hours after refusing to kiss the Presidential ring, MIT wins court battle over Defense Department plan to slash its grant funding
October 10
A federal judge today permanently barred the Department of Defense from drastically cutting reimbursements to MIT and other universities to support work by professors who have won research grants.
Judges order more immigrants freed from ICE clutches, including 13-year-old boy now locked up with men at ICE's office prison in Burlington
October 10
Boston federal judges today issued a series of orders requiring immigrants be given hearings to determine how much of a bond they need to put up to remain free as they pursue the right to stay here, rather than continuing to be locked up in prison cells owned or leased by ICE....
Long vacant Downtown Crossing bookstore to be replaced by a Uniqlo
October 10
Banker & Tradesman reports the seemingly permanently empty former Barnes & Noble will soon be filled by an outlet of the Japanese Uniqlo clothing chain - presumably in addition to its Faneuil Hall Marketplace outlet, not in place of it...
MIT declares it's not bowing down before the convicted felon in chief and his toadies
October 10
MIT President Sally Kornbluth today rejected a demand from the former wrestling executive who now runs what's left of the federal Department of Education to agree to regime demands to align with Dear Leader's racial- and religious-purity holdings in exchange for access to federal funds....
Man learns the hard way that getting convicted for drunk driving in Massachusetts means you lose your gun license for at least five years
October 10
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld the OUI conviction of a man stopped by a state trooper while weaving across a highway after downing several vodka tonics at the Golden Banana in Peabody in 2022.
Former Back Bay watering hole could become liquor-less two-story Asian restaurant
October 10
The Boston Sun reports on plans to convert the former Lir on Boylston Street into a two-story Asian restaurant called Zhu. At least for now, the owners are not planning to seek a liquor license. Lir was in a strip of...
Sunrise charmer over Squantum Channel
October 10
Kyle Benton was bicycling to work up Morrissey Boulevard this morning, but had to stop to take in the sunrise over Squantum Channel - the body of water you see when looking east from the venerable Beades drawbridge. He adds: ...
