Kraft drops out; councilors want to bring triple deckers back
That's all, folks: Kraft ends campaign
September 11
WCVB reports that Josh Kraft thought about his Preliminary drubbing and realized there are better things he can do with his time - and money....
Area around Old South Meeting House briefly shut on report of a pipe bomb in the subway entrance next door
September 11
BPD bomb technicians responded to the Orange Line entrance next to Old South Meeting House in Downtown Crossing shortly after 5:10 p.m. on a report of a possible pipe bomb wrapped in a sweater.
Swatting or mass hysteria at UMass Boston: Police from all over descend on campus on reports of gunfire that didn't happen
September 11
Boston, State and UMass Police swarmed the UMass Boston campus this afternoon in response to a call of gunfire on campus - that soon morphed into more calls and reports about gunfire, both outside the Campus Center and at the Campus Center Dunkin' to BC High, with an entire classroom of students and a professor supposedly cowering in the...
A few days late, but this is how you storrow a truck
September 11
A roving UHub photographer came upon this freshly shorn box truck on Soldiers Field Road by the Harvard Business School this afternoon. Now, you may be asking yourself: Where's the rest of the truck?
Oh, well, BOOM, the driver left it behind at the bridge he slammed into:...
Decaying bridge over Northeast Corridor tracks in Roslindale to be shut to drivers on Friday
September 11
MassDOT, which was already planning a major redo of the Canterbury Street Bridge over the Northeast Corridor train tracks, says it now has to shut the bridge to vehicles at 9 p.m. on Friday because the bridge is in worse shape than it originally thought, according to...
Boston councilors look to bring triple deckers back
September 11
Boston city councilors agreed yesterday it's time to modify city zoning regulations to make it easier to build more of the city's iconic triple deckers as a way to help ease the city's housing shortage.
Red Line lost power right at rush hour
September 11
Power stopped flowing to Red Line trains in the area of South Station shortly before 8:30 a.m. The T organized some buses to move passengers between Broadway and Park Street - and told riders at Braintree and Quincy Center to hop on the commuter rail instead.
A downed Amtrak power wire caused quite the South Station quagmire
September 11
Commuter-rail and Amtrak service between Providence South Station was a complete mess this morning after one of the wires that powers Amtrak trains to the ground near Canton Junction.
311 complaint of the day: 'Ello, gov'nor, this sign is wrong
September 11
A fan of Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, or perhaps an emigre from London's East End, filed a 311 complaint about this sign on Market Street in Brighton:
