The official sponsor of storrowing; one dead in Mission Hill fire
Man stabbed in Nubian Square
March 1
A man was stabbed on Roxbury Street just off Malcolm X Boulevard in Nubian Square around 10:40 p.m.
Plymouth Rock: The official sponsor of storrowing
March 1
Ron Newman spotted this ad from Boston's own Plymouth Rock Assurance, expanding its coverage to include illiterate drivers who storrow their trucks, atop an entrance to the Kendall Square Red Line stop today.
Trolley tracks are so hard to see, it's just not fair
March 1
Transit Police report they weren't planning on arresting the driver who managed to wedge her 2018 Mercedes between the C Line tracks along Beacon Street at St. Paul Street around 3 this morning.
JP woman asks: Why buy ice melt when you can just scrape salt off local roads?
March 1
Matt Shearer at WBZ Newsradio does the JPiest interview of the month, with "Sandy from JP," who estimates she's collected 20 gallons of road salt so far this season.
New study finds growing life-expectancy gap for Black residents in Boston
March 1
A report released by the Boston Public Health Commission last week shows that the gap in life expectancy between Blacks and other Boston residents doubled over the past decade - and a key driver is that Blacks are more likely ...
Officers looking for one teen with a gun in Dorchester found another teen with a loaded gun, police say
March 1
Boston Police report officers looking for a 14-year-old who had been reported roaming around with a gun found him, without a gun, but in the company of a 15-year-old with a loaded gun Friday afternoon near the Murphy K-8 School in Dorchester.
Plov and other Kyrgyz dishes now available on Tremont Street downtown
March 1
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Nova Restaurant, 131 Tremont St., has opened, with a menu "including such options as syrniki (cheese pancakes), solyanka (a thick, sour soup) ...
Cambridge councilors want city departments to get off X
March 1
Cambridge City Councilors Ayah Al-Zubi and Patricia Nolan are asking city departments to evacuate from Elon Musk's white-nationalist, deep-fake-porn-generating social-media network.
Venezuelan immigrant ordered released after ICE unable to say why it suddenly needed to grab him two years after freeing him
February 28
A federal judge in Boston yesterday ordered the immediate release of a Venezuelan man who had been locked up at the Plymouth County jail since November because ICE was unable to give specific reasons for why it felt it simply had to arrest him two years after he'd been released as he pursued a claim to stay here permanently because he faced persecution and torture in his homeland.
One dead in two-alarm fire on Mission Hill; police join investigation
February 27
Firefighters responded to 4 Ellingwood St. on Mission Hill around 2:50 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
Two Massachusetts residents diagnosed with measles, although one is out of state
February 27
The state Department of Public Health today announced an adult in the greater Boston area who recently returned from an international trip has been diagnosed with measles, and that a Massachusetts.
Space-saver vigilante springs into action on East Cottage Street in Dorchester, politely for now
February 27
Russell the roving UHub photographer reports somebody went up and down East Cottage Street in Dorchester this morning placing hand-written notes on all the space savers that their time is up and they need to go.
Night with a lady friend turns into home invasion, shooting in Dorchester; pair from Wellesley arrested
February 27
Boston Police report arresting a man and a teen at a luxury apartment building in Wellesley yesterday on charges they shot a Dorchester man during a home invasion early on Jan. 25.
71-unit addition to Mission Hill apartment building approved, over neighborhood opposition
February 27
The Zoning Board of Appeal this week approved a developer's plans to extend a four-story, 24-unit apartment building at 11 Parker Hill Avenue on Mission Hill with a six-story, 71-unit addition in the rear.
Mystery pig leg pops up in Newton
February 27
The Heights reports on the "pig leg or flank" found near a walking trail at Auburndale Cove on Sunday. Something doesn't seem quite kosher, so Newton Police are continuing to investigate the porcine part - as well as the literal red flag found with it.
