Roslindale remembers one of its bright lights, snuffed out far too soon
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 at City Hall Thursday morning. Read more.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup
July 12
Area birdwatchers have been flocking to the Scituate Lighthouse the past couple of days to get a gander at a bridled tern - a sea-going bird more commonly found in warmer climes, like near the Bahamas.
Dorchester man who keeps getting arrested for illegal possession of a loaded gun gets arrested for illegal possession of a loaded gun, police say
July 12
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man they say was puttering down Blue Hill Avenue near Floyd Street in Dorchester on a moped with a gun loaded with 10 bullets stuffed in one of his pants legs.
The age of sail returns to Boston Harbor
July 12
Adam Castiglioni watched the Tall Ships go by Castle Island yesterday, including the Chilean Esmeralda (above) and the Colombian Gloria ...
311 complaint of the day: How is it fair South Boston residents are ordered not to park on their streets today, only to find the streets filled with out-of-towners parking to see the tall ships?
July 11
A peeved South Boston resident filed a 311 complaint this morning about how people were ordered not to park on streets such as Shore Road and Day Boulevard today because of the tall ships, only to find all the spaces filled by outatownas parking for the tall ships.
Regime to have 'monitors' in Boston to watch the September primary; threatens Galvin if he goes out of his way to let non-citizens vote
July 11
WBUR reports the Justice Department wants to make sure there's no hanky-panky going on in Boston - and Fall River, just in case Secretary of State Bill Galvin proves unable to...
Judge settles South Boston condo-development lawsuit with some help from Horton the Elephant
July 10
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Adam Hornstine last week turned what could have been your typical dry ruling on a contract dispute involving the replacement of an East 2nd Street garage with a condo building into a treatise on the perils of greed, one filled with references to Dr. Seuss's big-eared, tree-sitting hero, "Mad Men," Han Solo, nice summer days at Sullivan's and the way South Boston residents mark parking spots after a blizzard.
East Boston man sues over the way he says he was manhandled, thrown in a windowless cell and robbed by ICE
July 10
An East Boston landscaper who says he was pulled out of a company van and forced to stand for most of two days in an overcrowded room at ICE's Burlington garrison - and then released but without the $600 in cash he had had with him - yesterday sued the regime for violations of several of his Constitutional rights, and of ICE's own policies ...
Teen was walking around Codman Square at 2 a.m. with a loaded gun, police say
July 10
Boston Police report arresting a 16-year-old they say had a gun loaded with bullets at Park and Claybourne streets in Dorchester early this morning.
Message for commuters on I-93
July 10
A roving UHub photographer captured the messaging above inbound I-93 in Dorchester this morning.
A friendly flyover by British fighter jets
July 10
Adam Balsam captured the Royal Air Force Red Arrows flying over Boston yesterday.
