Man charged for downtown bludgeoning murder; guy who loves suing Bill Galvin sues him again
Inspector clears South Station Starbucks to re-open
July 23
On its third inspection in five days, a Boston health inspector on Wednesday found no rats, no mice, no other problems at the Starbucks at South Station and re-instated its food-serving license.
Man with a metal pole charged with early morning murder outside Boylston T stop and attack in Chinatown
July 22
A man out on bail after allegedly trying to bring a gun into the Tip O'Neill federal building in May was arrested today on charges he beat one man to death at Boylston and Tremont streets shortly before 5:20 a.m. and bludgeoned a second in the back of the head with a metal pole at Beach Street and Surface Road in Chinatown.
Serial loser sues Bill Galvin again - but this time also Todd Blanche
July 22
Shiva Ayyadurai, who last month lost a battle to make Bill Galvin order local elections officials to basically take photos of every single ballot cast in the state, yesterday brought his windmill tilting into federal court.
Venerable Allston liquor store throwing in the towel
July 22
Blanchards on Harvard Avenue, which has been serving Allston's keg needs from beneath its large "BOTTLED LIQUORS" neon sign since the 1950s, plans to close no later than Oct. 31, and possibly sooner, according to a memo posted on Boston Reddit.
Man charged with May murder on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester
July 22
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man for the gunshot murder of Giovanni Bala, 22, of Dorchester, outside 260 Bowdoin St.
Transportation mishegas at Boston City Hall
July 22
Streetsblog Massachusetts pours over a tranche of internal City Hall communications obtained under the state public-records law that don't point the most flattering view of why.
City Council unanimously backs nurses in contract talks with Boston Medical Center
July 22
The Boston City Council today voted 11-0 to urge Boston Medical Center to give its RNs and LPNs what they're asking for in contract talks, specifically pay parity with nurses at the city's other major medical centers.
Second Amendment doesn't give Massachusetts gun-shop owner right to sell mass-murder weapons, court rules
July 22
A federal appeals court in Boston yesterday dismissed a lawsuit by the owner of a Bellingham gun store who claimed he has a Second Amendment rights to sell weapons of mass murder and that Massachusetts had no right to bar the sales of weapons able to kill large numbers of people in seconds.
State senator who worked to kill temporary residential tax relief in Boston working hard to support similar permanent measure in neighboring Watertown
July 22
The state House of Representatives recently and unanimously approved a request from Watertown to let it permanently shift some of the property-tax burden off residential property owners onto commercial property owners. ...
Keep your friends close but your cell phone closer, at least downtown and in the Theater District, police say
July 22
Boston Police are urging people to be especially vigilant with their cell phones downtown because of a wave of thefts in which ne'er-do-wells snatch phones out of people's hands downtown and the Theater District.
NIMBY town can't suddenly block apartment building it had earlier approved by calling it a "lodging house," court rules
July 22
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that the town of Bridgewater has to allow construction of a 58-unit apartment building the town zoning board had approved twice but which the town building inspector then sought to stop after determining it was an unallowed "lodging house" where too many unrelated people could share some of the units.
