More court woes for Barbara Lynch
The Allston Christmas version of a "Kiss Me!" sign under the mistletoe
August 29
Wandering around Allston this afternoon, Shamus Moynihan came upon a sign-bedecked couch - just up the street from this classic Allston Christmas scene.
In new lawsuit, Boston seeks to void Barbara Lynch's sale of an expensive liquor license - which it had approved without question last year
August 28
In the second of its two legal actions involving former restaurant mogul Barbara Lynch, Boston today asked a judge to void her 2025 sale of the liquor license for her defunct restaurant at 9 Park St. on Beacon Hill to a group that opened a similarly named and styled Nine, which itself is now out of business.
Judge orders celebrichef Barbara Lynch's bank accounts frozen after Boston says she's refused to pay the nearly $1 million in back taxes she owes on her defunct restaurants
August 28
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today ordered accounts belonging to one-time restaurant mogul Barbara Lynch frozen as the Boston city treasurer's office tries to finally get paid on years of back taxes now approaching $1 million that another judge ordered her in June to pay.
Firefighters rescue child wedged between radiator and door in Brighton
August 30
Boston firefighters responded to a home on South Crescent Circuit in Brighton around 8 a.m. after a child somehow got wedged between a radiator and a door.
Man shot on Woodrow Avenue in Dorchester; two suspects on scooter arrested after they crash into a cruiser, police say
August 30
Boston Police report arresting two men they say shot a third at Woodrow and Milton avenues in Dorchester around 2:55 a.m. on Saturday.
MIT lab building shut after grad student shows up at local ER saying he'd just made one of the world's deadliest neurotoxins; officials now say he probably didn't
August 30
The Tech summarizes an incident at MIT's Building 18, which houses its chemistry department and in which a grad student reported to ER doctors he had just synthesized dimethyl mercury, a slow-acting neurotoxin best known for...
Three-alarm fire strikes house on Metropolitan Avenue in Hyde Park; no injuries, but cat missing
August 30
Boston firefighters responded to 596 Metropolitan Ave. between Thatcher and Safford streets in Hyde Park around 2:35 a.m. for what turned into a three-alarm fire.
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Somebody got their feathers ruffled
August 30
Mary Ellen spotted this ruffled up green heron on the banks of the Charles at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
One dead, one injured after third-rail electrocution at Forest Hills
August 30
A man trying to help a woman off the Orange Line tracks at Forest Hills fell on the tracks himself, came into contact with the third rail and was fatally electrocuted around 1:10 p.m. on Saturday, Transit Police say.
Man shot to death in possible drive-by on Warren Street in Roxbury
August 29
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A man was shot in the chest on Warren Street near Clifford and Dale streets in Roxbury around 9:20 p.m.
Guy walking around Roslindale with a loaded gun picked the wrong place to cross Washington Street, police say
August 29
Boston Police report arresting a guy with a loaded gun traipsing through Roslindale after a gang-unit officer on his way to work spotted him crossing Washington Street at Metropolitan Avenue - and after they brought in the ...
Fire at trash-transfer station on Norfolk Avenue in Roxbury goes to two alarms - just a few blocks from last year's eight-alarm trash fire
August 29
Boston firefighters responded to a Republic trash-transfer station at 66 Norfolk Ave. in Roxbury for a trash fire around 3:20 p.m.
How a movement of Cambridge and Boston secretaries inspired a Dolly Parton movie and song
August 29
The Massachusetts Women's History Center provides the history of 9to5, started in 1972 by some secretaries at Harvard University who had grown tired of the constant disrespect they faced in their jobs....
Lynn teen shows up in Egleston Square with a gun loaded with seven bullets, police say
August 29
Boston Police report gang-unit officers arrested a 16-year-old with a loaded gun tucked under his arm in Egleston Square Friday evening....
Westin in the Seaport evacuated due to small fire
August 29
Boston firefighters responded to the Westin Seaport Hotel, 424 Summer St., across from the convention center for a fire around midnight.
Two storrowing videos for your amusement
August 28
WBZ Newsradio's Matt Shearer hitches a ride with Larry the Storrowing King - he's a DCR worker whose job is to help get storrowed trucks off the river roads, and he loves his job. Also, he notes that most storrowing is done not by stupid college students but by stupid local truck drivers. ...
Vietnamese coffee shop approved on Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner
August 28
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved Hung Nguyen's plans to open Tach Coffee at 1411 Dorchester Ave. at Greenwich Street in Dorchester.
State senator had a tough choice yesterday: Attend forum whose date he helped set or skip it to hand a local group a giant novelty check
August 28
State Sen. Mike Rush (D-Norfolk and Suffolk) had agreed to his one and only candidate forum with primary challenger Persis Yu last night, but organizers say he canceled at the last minute because he had a more important event to attend ...
