Rainbows, Josh Kraft's giant Trump head, Tom Lehrer dies
Here's what happened in the Hub since Friday:
Nick Schmidt snapped a rainbow over the Back Bay and the Charles from the BU Bridge last week.
Campaign roundup: Nothing like seeing a convicted felon staring up at you from your mailbox; Mass and Cass not going away; forum for some at-large candidates
07/27/2025 - 8:57pm
Josh Kraft has an issue with mailings, it seems.
Woman sought as Downtown Crossing spitfire
07/27/2025 - 8:31pm
Transit Police report they are looking for a woman who turned fighty at the Downtown Crossing T station on July 14.
Police say she spat on one person and then assaulted a woman, 69, around 4:30 p.m. - "both without provocation."
E Line turns quiet and oh so very still after a wire snaps at Back of the Hill
07/27/2025 - 7:39pm
Shortly after 4:30, one of the overhead wires that Green Line trains use for power got mangled and snapped in two at Back of the Hill and now the MBTA is asking riders to take the 39 bus instead.
Tom Lehrer, legendary satirist from Cambridge, dies at 97
07/27/2025 - 2:11pm
Variety reports that Tom Lehrer, who sang about everything from local subway stops and his dear old alma mater on the Charles.
Man arrested on gun charges in Dorchester after a shot was fired - and his car's key fob fell out of his pocket - police say
07/27/2025 - 10:48am
Boston Police report officers responding to a ShotSpotter call about a gunshot on Gleason Street in Dorchester ...
Centre Street in West Roxbury loses a pizza place
07/26/2025 - 10:31pm
Christo's, 1761 Centre St. in West Roxbury, served its last Greek-style pie tonight, saying it had to close "due to circumstances beyond our control."
Convicted Felon in Chief demands Harvard squeal like a pig
07/26/2025 - 6:05pm
The Crimson reports that, emboldened by the $220 million he extracted from Columbia, Jeffrey Epstein's BFF is demanding far, far more money from Harvard to make ...
East Boston man, a BPS grad, now a gold-medal international rowing champion
07/26/2025 - 1:26pm
Samuel Sullivan of East Boston is on the US rowing team that won gold, for the first time ever, in the World Rowing Under 23 races, held in Poznan, Poland.
Appeals court revives civil-rights suit against BPD, state by two victims of child-raping cop Patrick Rose
07/26/2025 - 12:30pm
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that two people repeatedly raped as children by now imprisoned Boston cop - and former police-union president - Patrick Rose should get a chance to make their case that Boston Police and the state Department of Children and Families effectively helped Rose to keep raping them by sweeping allegations against him under a rug, even after he was criminally charged and BPD's own internal-affairs department recommended his firing.
Food deliverer shot in Brighton's Faneuil Gardens
07/26/2025 - 10:58am
WHDH reports a DoorDash driver was shot at 81 Faneuil St. around 11:40 p.m. on Friday. Injuries not considered life threatening.
Boston judge once again upholds his ban on regime attempt to ignore the Constitution and deny citizenship to babies born here to immigrant parents
07/25/2025 - 8:37pm
A federal judge in Boston has rejected, again, the regime's attempt to ignore the 14th Amendment's right to citizenship for anybody born on American soil, in a ruling he said complies with the Supreme Court's newfound love of limited injunctions because ...
Somewhere, over the rainbow, is Dorchester
07/25/2025 - 8:09pm
Nick Schmidt snapped a rainbow over the Back Bay and the Charles from the BU Bridge this afternoon, marvels: "Talk about being in the right place at the right time."
Man charged with sexually attacking jogger on Columbus Avenue near Ruggles
07/25/2025 - 7:38pm
A Waltham man faces charges that he went up to a jogging Northeastern student and grabbed her by the groin, on Columbus Avenue near the Renaissance parking garage, around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Wood Street in Cambridge lives up to its name after storm
07/25/2025 - 3:38pm
A roving UHub photographer shows us the aptly named Wood Street in Cambridge after a tree proved unable to stand upright in that brief but powerful storm this afternoon.
Police hunt prowlers creeping around Kilsyth Road in Brighton
07/25/2025 - 3:06pm
Boston Police report they are looking for up to three men ...
Firefighters douse South Boston balcony fire
07/25/2025 - 2:47pm
Boston firefighters responded to 2 West 6th St. in South Boston for a balcony fire around 11:45 a.m.
ICE protest over I-93
07/25/2025 - 1:29pm
Rage Against the Regime shows us the protest signs displayed on an overpass across I-93 inbound along Savin Hill yesterday.
An elevated sunset
07/25/2025 - 12:52pm
In July, 1979, Lou Jones photographed an Orange Line train rattling down the elevated tracks in the South End, in front of the old and new Hancock Buildings.
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