Squirrel shorts out local AM station; Judge blocks half-assed regime college data demand

Squirrel shorts out local AM station; Judge blocks half-assed regime college data demand
Who would win a battle between a taxi-bot and a Boston-area turkey? Photo by Josh Bittker.

Flaming fan brings firefighters to Huntington Avenue apartment, near South Huntington

April 5

Boston firefighters responded to the top floor of 896 Huntington Ave., between South Huntington Avenue and Colburn Street, Mission Hill, after a bathroom ceiling fan caught fire around 7:35 p.m. Read more.

Hey, classical music fans, have we got a site for you

April 5

Concert Atlas is a calendar of upcoming classical and early-music performances in greater Boston.

Concert Atlas was created by Zachary Held, who over four years at Boston University attended hundreds of classical performances - often one or multiple every week -  taking advantage of...

311 complaint of the day: Somebody in Plymouth is missing a boat

April 4

Somebody out for a walk filed a 311 complaint this morning about a boat washed up on the shore of Carson Beach in South Boston: Read more.

That's nuts: Squirrel shorts out local AM station - and likely itself

April 4

Update: Power restored shortly before 4:30 p.m. "Condolences to the family of the squirrel who got fried," owner John Garabedian wrote. "He/she got more than a moment of silence."

Oldies fans woke up this morning to find only static, where they'd normally be hearing music from the '40s through the '80s from WJIB, 720 AM....

BPD officer stabbed with a sword, suspect fatally shot in latest violent incident near Northeastern campus

April 4

WCVB reports that a man suffering some sort of breakdown this morning stabbed an officer outside his Hemenway Street apartment with a sword and knocked down a mental-health clinician and was then fatally shot by other officers....

Judge blocks half-assed regime plan to force colleges to hand over six years of enrollment data in its zeal to find discrimination against white people

April 4

A federal judge yesterday blocked the regime from demanding that public colleges and universities in 17 states, including Massachusetts, hand over six years of detailed enrollment data in just four months to an office that is being dismantled in a department the regime is trying to shut down....

Roxbury gun battle leaves one injured, three arrested

April 4

Boston Police report arresting three men for their alleged role in a gun battle at Dudley Street and Mt. Pleasant Avenue around 1 p.m. on Thursday that sent one person to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the shoulder...

Cataloging the sunset

April 3

Mfz1028's son's cat took in the sunset over Mission Hill this evening.

Man convicted of murdering his girlfriend's screaming ex outside her Roxbury apartment

April 3

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Widmaer Lapaix, 29, of North Attleboro, guilty of second-degree murder for the death of Maceo Martin, 41, on Hammond Street in Roxbury early on Oct. 8, 2024, the Suffolk County District ...

Owner of Jamaica Plain's Ten Tables announces replacement

April 3

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Krista Kranyak hopes to open Beyond Proof - a new "zero-proof" restaurant that will pair "Mediterranean-inspired dishes" with on-alcoholic beverages - next week ...

Judge orders regime to hand over grand-jury instructions to lawyers for Harvard Medical frozen-frog-embryo researcher as they build vindictive-prosecution case

April 3

Regime lawyers were ordered this week to turn over grand-jury instructions "on the elements of smuggling" and other documents that could help a Russian-born Harvard Medical School researcher make the case that they only brought criminal charges against her for the frozen frog embryos she got caught with at Logan as retribution against both her...

Kratom poisonings surged 1,200% over the past decade, and regulators are struggling to keep up with the dangers

April 3

Proposals to ban or regulate kratom, a plant-based substance sold in gas stations, convenience stores and vape shops, are making headlines in local newspapers across the United States. But as...

Never mind our insane streets and crazed drivers: Can robocars survive our turkeys?

April 3

This morning on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Josh Bittker snapped what he called "the fight we've been waiting for, the Battle for Brattle," between one of those Waymo taxi-bots the company has been driving around the area of late (with humans behind the wheel) and ...

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