Man charged for death of unborn baby in head-on Jway crash; Boston sues regime over road grant
Man charged with manslaughter for death of fetus in 103-m.p.h. head-on crash on the Jamaicaway, DA says
September 28
A Lowell man panicked after rear-ending somebody on the Jamaicaway inbound, backed up and sped off, then got up to 103 m.p.h. before crossing what passes for a median on the narrow, curvy road and slammed into a car coming the other way, sending the driver the hospital with serious injuries and killing her 26-week old fetus on Aug. 17, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges.
To try to win back a $20-million Roxbury road grant, Boston offered to eliminate proposed curbside EV chargers; regime refused, city is now suing
September 28
The city of Boston today sued the regime to get back a $20-million federal grant, awarded in 2022, then rescinded last fall, to improve Melnea Cass Boulevard, Malcolm X Boulevard, and Warren Street.
Six-alarm fire in Nubian Square
September 28
Boston firefighters are at the Edison Building - 72 Warren St. in Roxbury - battling what has turned into a six-alarm fire.
In the widening gyre, MBTA could turn to falconers to clear bothersome birds from T stations
September 28
Streetsblog Massachusetts reports the MBTA wants to talk to falconers about possibly bringing their birds into MBTA facilities to rid them of bothersome pigeons, seagulls and even starlings.
No more jumping across the Charles River
September 28
Mary Ellen shows us the raging, well, no longer mostly dry, Charles River at the Millennium Park kayak launch this morning, following all that rain. Compare to the same basic spot just a couple weeks ago - or...
Bomb threat shuts Harvard's Memorial Hall and Memorial Church
September 28
Harvard University Police and the Cambridge Police bomb squad responded to Memorial Hall for a bomb threat around 8 a.m. that led to a shelter-in-place advisory for the hall and nearby buildings and ultimately meant closing Memorial Church, in Harvard Yard.
Soggy storrowing
September 28
Roving UHub photographer Caroline D. stopped long enough to memorialize a wet and windswept storrowing on Memorial Drive outbound around 8:20 a.m. She adds ...
