People demand safer roads; guy charged with shooting at cops
But first, this morning dawned bright and early and full of storrowing goodness: Somebody in a rental truck ignored the "CARS ONLY" signs and did a 10-out-of-1o storrowing inbound at the BU Bridge around 5 a.m: Truck completely destroyed, roof peeled back and laying all over the road, traffic backed up to, oh, Ohio or so, just a sight to behold. NBC Boston has the screech-o-matic photos.
Bicyclists crowd City Hall Plaza to demand safer streets; Wu joins them
July 16
Ron Newman attended this afternoon's vigil and street-safety protest for Louisa Gag who died under the wheels of an 18-wheeler on Tremont Street on Mission Hill last Thursday.
Man charged with shooting at cops in Dorchester
July 16
A Jamaica Plain man is charged with opening fire on two cops at Devon and Laredo street in Dorchester around 9:10 p.m. on Wednesday - a little more than a month after he was released on personal recognizance on a charge of beating somebody up downtown last November.
Three men awaiting trial at a Suffolk County lockup charged with beating two guards
July 16
Three men already housed at the Suffolk County House of Correction on Bradston Street pending trials face new charges for an incident last month at the Suffolk County House of Correction in which they sent one guard to the hospital and injured a second after ganging up on them, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Board tells Bromfield Street bar it can post signs telling people not to sit on the sidewalk outside rolling and smoking joints
July 16
When two Boston licensing cops and the chairwoman of the licensing board rolled up to Sidebar, 14-16 Bromfield St. downtown, for a surprise inspection the night of May 28, they found the bar's karaoke DJ outside with some other folks, amiably rolling joints and then smoking them.
Mexican, Korean restaurants in Jamaica Plain get full liquor licenses
July 16
The Boston Licensing Board has granted all-alcohol licenses to Abuela's Table, 416 Centre St. in Hyde Square, and Gangnam Spice, 225 Centre St. in Jackson Square.
