Man charged with dealing coke outside a Coke plant

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Man charged with dealing coke outside a Coke plant
Ruined block of businesses in Nubian Square. Photo by Stony Larsen.

A Methuen man was arrested Saturday outside the Coca-Cola bottling plant off 128 in Needham on a charge of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, federal court records show. The plant has become a landmark for handoffs of out-of-state cocaine to local dealers, according to an affidavit by a DEA agent on the case. Read more.

Business signs remain at ruins of Nubian Square building after six-alarm fire

September 29

Boston firefighters continued to watch over the ruins of the Edison building on Warren Street in Roxbury today, one day after a six-alarm fire that started in the basement, as tenants tried to figure out how to restart their businesses.

Regime gets OK to disappear immigrants to holes they can never climb out of

September 29

The Supreme Court ruled today the regime can resume shipping immigrants to countries they have no connection to and without having to tell them first or give them a chance to appeal on grounds they might be tortured there.

Not really a big surprise: Red Line trains dropping like flies

September 29

At 6:04 p.m., the MBTA reported 15-minute delays on the Red Line's Ashmont branch due to an unresponsive train at Savin Hill. At 7:59 p.m., it reported similar delays on the Red Line after another train lost the will to live at Broadway.

And all that came after 20-minute delays due to a "power issue" at JFK/UMass shortly before 3 p.m....

Big rig now a bit smaller after driver storrows in Southborough

September 29

Lee Toma shows us the fresh haircut a Toll Brothers truck got this evening when its driver tried squeezing under the Worcester Line tracks above Rte. 85 in Southborough but failed. He adds ...

Unions at EPA sue over agency's bid to crush collective bargaining, First Amendment

September 29

Unions representing workers at the Environmental Protection Agency today sued over the regime's efforts to throw out their contract and to muzzle government scientists and others who want to protest its coal-rolling environmental policies.

AI battle at heart of Concord kindergarten teacher's suit over her firing

September 29

A Concord kindergarten teacher fired after 21 years on the job is suing to get her job back by arguing the arbitrator who heard her appeal improperly dismissed her use of an anti-AI tool she used to support her claim that her principal had an AI program write her termination letter rather than coming up with his own reasons for firing her.

Pedestrian suffers life-threatening injuries in collision with bicyclist near Marsh Chapel

September 29

The Globe reports on the crash on Commonwealth Avenue at St. Mary's Street around 9:10 a.m.

Guy charged as Mission Hill gunman with bad aim in failed murder attempt

September 29

Boston Police report arresting a man they say opened fire on somebody in a car at Pauline Bennett Way and Smith Street on Mission Hill Friday evening.

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