The state Department of Environmental Protection forecast for today: "Wildfire smoke from Canada will continue to enter the region and influence particle pollution levels. Fine particle levels are forecast to average in the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (USG) range." And by "sensitive groups," they mean seniors,
Boston Police report they are looking for two guys and a Honda Civic for a stabbing at St. Michael Cemetery, 500 Canterbury St. in Roslindale, around 6:10 a.m. on Saturday. Read more. After-hours brawl left once promising amateur boxer from Ireland bleeding from several stab wounds outside
311 complaint of the day: Screacher preacher July 13 An ear-hurt resident files a 311 complaint about a Downtown Crossing street preacher with a sound system that goes to 11. Canton man arrested for July 4 murder in Cambridge; others sought July 13 The Cambridge/Somerville Independent reports the
Several hundred people crowded Adams Park in Roslindale Square Sunday afternoon to remember Louisa Gag, 36, local girl turned road-safety advocate and lifelong best friend, killed in a crash with a motor vehicle on Tremont Street on Mission Hill as she bicycled to her job as a BTD planner
The Globe has identified the person who died when hit by a driver on Tremont Street at Parker Street on Mission Hill this morning as Louisa Gag, a planner for the Boston Transportation Department who once co-authored a report on "Vision Zero" - the idea of redesigning roads
Brigham and Women's nurses ended their strike, but the hospital says: So? They'd hired temps to cover for the nurses and the temp contracts were for several days, so now the permanent nurses are locked out. Councilor Mejia suffers medical emergency during council meeting; is taken
But first: 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital went on strike this morning over pay, health insurance and the use of temporary workers. Somerville company among victims of Russian phishing campaign headed by man arrested in Thailand and now facing charges in Boston, FBI says July
Thomas Connor was among the unfortunate riders on the Needham Line's Train 667, who spent an uncomfortable amount of time just sitting there in a tunnel at Back Bay in what turned into the evening non-rush yesterday, since the train just wasn't moving. He reported
Gun battle leaves one dead, five others injured on George Street in Roxbury July 5 Boston Police report three people were shot on George Street near Langdon Street in Roxbury around 3:14 a.m. Four shot in Grove Hall, one dead July 5 Boston Police report four people were
State says Croft School founder ran the place like a Ponzi scheme, which, like all Ponzi schemes, fell apart July 2 State security regulators today charged that Scott Given of Wellesley, who claimed to have started the Croft School as a way to provide a quality private education at reduced
Pink-haired woman with three phones in a Queens supermarket at the center of an Allston/Brighton brothel chain, BPD and feds say July 1 A woman from Flushing, NY faces charges she helped run a chain of brothels in Allston/Brighton that employed women from East Asia to service
Developer planning apartment building at Washington and Bromfield with more units than the 59-story tower it once proposed there June 30 A New York developer that first began talking in 2006 about redeveloping the block it owns at Washington and Bromfield streets in Downtown Crossing says it will soon