Teen shooters; professor sues MIT; mellow music planned for DTX
17-year-old charged with February shooting in South Boston; was nabbed with a loaded gun, police say
March 29
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old on charges he shot somebody at West 8th and F streets on Feb. 18.
Allston shooting suspect turns self in; is 16
March 29
Boston Police report arresting a 16-year-old they say shot another teen at Brighton Avenue and Allston Street in Allston on Thursday.
MIT professor sues congressional committee painting him as a raving antisemite - and MIT for what he says is its cooperation in the campaign
March 29
An MIT linguistics professor yesterday sued a Republican-led House committee that claims to be investigating campus antisemitism for violating his First Amendment rights by calling him an out-of-control antisemite - and MIT for too quickly handing over documents to the committee and for blocking him from teaching a seminar on the linguistics of Zionist colonialism and denying him a pay raise.
Northeastern student stabbed on Huntington Avenue
March 29
Northeastern University Police report a student was stabbed outside the Marino Center, 369 Huntington Ave., around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Man fatally stabbed in apartment on Old Colony Avenue in South Boston
March 29
Boston Police report that a man who was stabbed in an apartment at 258 Old Colony Ave. in South Boston Friday afternoon died on Saturday.
Anger on Boston Common
March 28
Ron Newman attended the No Kings rally on Boston Common and took some photos.
Declaring no kings in Boston neighborhoods
March 28
Most of Boston's regime protesters headed to the Common today for the big No Kings Rally. But Bostonians also showed up for separate rallies at the Monument in Jamaica Plain, Holy Name Rotary in West Roxbury and at the Muni in Hyde Park. And residents of the Sophia Snow Senior Living Center on VFW Parkway on the Roslindale/West Roxbury line.
Parents at one Croft School branch say they've raised enough to keep classes open for the rest of the school year and will now try to keep the school open permanently
March 27
Parents at the Croft School on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain say they have raised enough to keep the school's doors open through the end of the current school year.
Downtown Crossing could get a mellow music club with local performers and open-mic nights - and maybe a night just for wedding bands
March 27
Diego Veliz-Flores wants to bring the funk to the building his family owns at 19 School St. downtown - with a venue that would double as a rehearsal and music-therapy space during the day and a public venue for local performers at night.
Venerable Chinatown seafood place not closing, getting new owner
March 27
The current owners of Chinatown staple Peach Farm, 4 Tyler St., have sold the restaurant, but the new owners plan to keep the same name and run it pretty much the same. ...
Families of two teens killed in Dorchester rollover sue BPD officers they charge failed to call off high-speed pursuit
March 27
Families of two of the teens who died in a rollover crash on Morrissey Boulevard early on Jan. 4, 2024 have sued the city and three Boston Police officers they charge continued pursuing the car at high speed after after disregarding an order by a supervisor to stop the chase under a longstanding BPD rule against high-speed chases.
Judge orders Massachusetts to turn over the names and addresses of voters to rightwing group
March 27
A federal judge ruled yesterday that federal law trumps state privacy concerns when it comes to voter information and ordered Secretary of State Bill Galvin to hand over the names and addresses of all current and past Massachusetts voters to a rightwing group building a national voter database that, of course, only exists to ferret out fraud ...