Man calls in bomb threat to downtown theater; eBay and execs admit they were horrible people
Man with sharpened chopsticks calls bomb threat into Tremont Street cineplex after ejection for harassing a worker, police say
July 28
A Beacon Hill man who made "inappropriate comments" to a woman employee at the AMC Boston Common on Tremont Street - and then used a pair of sharpened chopsticks to threaten the manager who ejected him - called in a bomb threat to the theater from a Washington Street restaurant around 3:40 p.m., police say.
eBay, disgraced executives to pay $50 million to Natick couple they terrorized for months; wiill also make $7 million in contributions to non-profit groups
July 28
eBay, its disgraced former CEO, two other disgraced executives and some of their minions who, unlike their leaders, went to prison, yesterday agreed to pay $50 million to David and Ina Steiner, a Natick couple whose online reporting they didn't like and figured the answer was to drive them insane through a months-long campaign that included not just sending them live cockroaches and fly larvae, a bloody pig's head mask and a book on surviving the death of a spouse but posting craigslist ads for sex parties at their house and flying to Boston to set up a command center to stalk them, including by breaking into their garage to install GPS bugs on their cars.
After 26 years, owners of defunct Salem Street bakery finally win approval to do something with it: Add five stories of condos
July 28
The Zoning Board of Appeal today gave the owners of a long-shuttered one-story commercial building at 97 Salem St. in the North End permission to add five stories worth of condos and to re-open the bakery they had once run there.
Board approves conversion of old LogMeIn building in Fort Point to 145 apartments
July 28
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to turn a long vacant office building at 320 Summer St. at A Street into 145 apartments.
People will be dying to move into some homes approved in Dorchester's Cedar Grove
July 28
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by a builder and the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Dorchester to build three two-family homes on a piece of cemetery-owned land on Milton Street at Granite Avenue.
Last Boloco to shut down in September
July 28
Boston Restaurant Talk reports on the impending demise of what was once a local burrito chain, with the planned shutdown of its final location, at 50 Congress St. downtown, on Sept. 25.
DA says driver felt "disrespected" by man on scooter, so he ran him down and killed him
July 28
WCVB reports on the arraignment of Jhonny Ruiz Soto for second-degree murder for the death of Starling Basil Gonzalez, 36, on Blue Hill Avenue at Castlegate Road Sunday afternoon.
