Storrowed but good; two stabbings in Dorchester

Share
Storrowed but good; two stabbings in Dorchester
The Silber Footbridge refused to get out of the way. Photo by Turlach MacDonagh.

Teen with loaded gun, fentanyl and crack tried running from cops in the South End, but dropped his gun on the sidewalk and then they caught him, police say

June 7

Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old from Roxbury who had a gun loaded with 16 bullets, 99 fentanyl pills, 6 grams of crack and a knife coated with "a white powdery residue" when gang-unit officers...

311 complaint of the day: Angry man with one leg just lying in the grass in East Boston needs help

June 7

Angry, partially legless minifig

A concerned resident filed a 311 report this evening about the glowering one-legged man prostrate in the grass in Central Square Park in East Boston: 

Boston in bloom

June 7

Handmaid walked through the Fenway Victory Gardens this morning.

Ye Ed strolled through the Arnold Arboretum the other day ...

The kind of energy you could only get in Boston

June 7

Thene captured a happy MassDOT employee at the Pride parade yesterday. 

Man stabbed on Elder Street in Dorchester

June 7

NBC Boston reports a man was stabbed on Elder Street in Dorchester around 8:20 p.m. on Saturday. He was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.

Man stabbed on Bailey Street in Dorchester

June 6

NBC Boston reports a man was stabbed at 88 Bailey St., near Dorchester Avenue, around 11:45 p.m. on Saturday. The homicide unit was called in because of the severity of his injuries.

Satisfying sultry Saturday Silber storrowing

June 6

Turlach MacDonagh found himself in the right place at the right time: Right at the Silber footbridge on Storrow inbound around 12:30 p.m., when the driver of a Ryder rental truck suddenly realized what those "CARS ONLY" signs meant as the overpass peeled back the entire roof of his vehicle, leaving bits of shimmery aluminum under the bridge and...

What if they just kept the Citgo sign like this?

June 6

Roving UHub photographer Clay Gollobin snapped the increasingly barren, but also kind of cool looking, Citgo sign as it's being taken down for six months so it can be moved to new moorings above Kenmore Square (and no, don't get all paranoid and say similar promises were made when...

The Father of All Email sues Bill Galvin again over ballot "images" Galvin says don't exist

June 6

Serial candidate and self-proclaimed inventor of email Shiva Ayyadurai this week sued Secretary of State Bill Galvin, seeking an order to make the state retain "images" of all ballots cast in this fall's elections. 

Orange on orange

June 5

Matt Frank watched an Orange Line train cross the Mystic during an orange sunset this evening. See larger.

State auditor sues legislature over audit

June 5

State Auditor Diana DiZoglio today sued legislative leaders in an attempt to make them allow the legislative audit voters approved in 2024. 

Funny, he doesn't look busy

June 5

Mary Ellen spotted the Beav along Sawmill Brook (the banks of which are full of gnawed trees) at Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day, adds ...

Judge orders liars at ICE to pay $15,000 to lawyer for an imprisoned immigrant about whom ICE lied, then kept lying about

June 5

A federal judge today ordered the regime to pay $14,967.18 to the lawyer of an Ecuadorean woman it kept locked up for months, whom it lied about repeatedly in court and violated her Constitutional right to be treated like a human being instead of being shunted around the country and deprived of medication for debilitating medical problems before he ordered her freed.

Guys on a boat in Boston Harbor seen some stuff they ain't never seen before, kid - not a baby wheel but a great white shark

June 5

NBC Boston reports.

But who can forget the baby wheel?

Pricey yachts go up in flames in Winthrop

June 5

NBC Boston reports a dozen "very expensive, high-end value vessels" caught fire early this morning at the Cottage Park Yacht Club.

Man sets Juneteenth material on fire outside Museum of African American History on Beacon Hill

June 5

Surveillance photos of older, bald suspect in a dark jacket via BPD.

Boston Police are looking for the guy they say ripped open a package containing Juneteenth material outside the Museum of African American History, 46 Joy St. on...

Read more