Space-saver stabbing; new apartments proposed
After a judge ordered ICE to release an immigrant they'd shoved in a bedless, windowless basement, they arrested her husband
February 5
A federal judge in Boston last night ordered the regime not to immediately deport an Ecuadorian man - three months after another federal judge ordered ICE to immediately release his wife, whom they'd stuffed into the basement of their Burlington garrison after first shipping her off to a Texas prison.
Space-saving rage in Dorchester: Man stabbed in the hand in dispute over shoveled out parking space
February 4
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man they say stabbed another man whose cleared parking space he allegedly took early this morning.
Six-story apartment building proposed where three-story commercial building was once slated for Maverick Square
February 4
A Burlington developer has filed plans for a six-story, 109-unit apartment building at Chelsea and Maverick streets in East Boston, on a lot where a funeral home and three neighboring buildings were torn down for a three-story commercial building that never went up.
Woman takes the stairs down from Beacon Street to the Common; unfortunately, she was in her car at the time
February 4
WFXT reports a woman somehow ended up driving her BMW down stairs from Beacon Street to the Common near the Frog Pond this morning. She was transported to a local hospital.
And now for something new: Track problems on the Blue
February 4
At 3:46 p.m., the MBTA reported 20-minute delays on the Blue Line due to, no, not signal issues, but "a track problem" near Suffolk Downs.
Plans for old Radius Hospital site in Roxbury not dead, merely resting; developer submits new proposal
February 4
A developer has filed the latest in a series of plans to reuse the campus of the long shuttered Radius Specialty Hospital on Townsend Street in Roxbury, this time by rehabbing its old buildings to create 164 apartments.
Councilor apologizes for calling some of her colleagues lazy slackers last week
February 4
City Councilor Sharon Durkan (Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Fenway, West End) today apologized for the way she talked about some colleagues last week after one asked for a delay in voting on proposed council rules changes.
Fire displaces eight on Fuller Street in Dorchester
February 4
A two-alarm fire at 86 Fuller St. in Dorchester, called in around noon, displaced seven adults and one child but caused no injuries, the Boston Fire Department reports.
Chinatown fusion restaurant shuts down
February 4
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the demise of Double Chin on Harrison Avenue. Bao Bao Bakery, owned by the same folks and with the same landlord, is also gone.
South Boston building once approved for life-sciences labs could become apartments for foreign interns
February 4
A Portland, ME non-profit that owns a mostly vacant office building at 69 A St. in South Boston once slated for life-sciences labs has filed for permission to instead turn three of the building's floors into 24 apartments it would use to house foreign students who still want to come to the US for some reason for internships at American...
Green Line ride became a bear, when a train died at Union Square
February 4
At 8:53 a.m., the MBTA announced ten-minute delays on the Green Line after a train left this mortal coil at Union Square.
Some Red Line riders had reason to gripe, because of a Fields Corner busted pipe
February 4
At Fields Corner, the day began with water pouring out of a burst pipe, flooding the Red Line station, but the MBTA reports that by 5:43 a.m., everything was OK and it could call off bustitution.
