There's a new sheriff in town
There's a new sheriff in town: Tompkins steps down to deal with extortion charges
August 27
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins is taking a leave of office while federal extortion charges against him are pending, Gov. Healey announced this morning....
Extortionist in chief demands $500 million from Harvard
August 26
The Crimson reports that a man who has been convicted of 34 felonies, who committed a long-running series of real-estate frauds and who was ordered to pay a woman for sexually molesting her in a department store thinks that Harvard has "been very bad" and needs to pony up half a billion dollars to prove he is their daddy and can then demand more money from them.
That time of year: 'We put up like a hundred signs all over!'
August 26
DCR is out with its annual storrowing warning for incoming freshmen.
Police hunt scooter suspects in Savin Hill carjacking turned shooting
August 26
Boston Police have released photos of four guys on two scooters they say tried to carjack somebody's pickup on Savin Hill Friday afternoon and when he resisted, shot him in the stomach.
Board declares plans to rebuild fire-ravaged Oak Square two-family with two additional units to be tip top
August 26
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the owner of a fire-ravaged two-family home at 7 Tip Top St. in Brighton's Oak Square to rebuild it into a four-unit house with no parking.
Owner of Fenway liquor store with a license that dates to the repeal of Prohibition running out of time to keep it alive
August 26
Huntington Wine and Spirits, 301 Huntington Ave. in the Fenway, closed in April, but the scion of the family that got one of the first 30 packie licenses the city issued after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 today pleaded with the Boston Licensing Board to let him hold onto it a little longer as he tries to either find a buyer or move what's...
Hub man in running for president of actors' union, but has a bit of a problem with posts expressing his hatred of immigrants and his desire to nuke a Chinese city
August 26
Deadline reports on social-media posts last year by Chuck Slavin - one of two candidates to replace outgoing SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher - in which he says deporting millions of...
Logan losing service workers due to regime rules
August 26
WBUR reports; seems red-blooded Murricans aren't rushing to apply for the jobs immigrants had supposedly taken from them.
Boston, MBTA look to set up dedicated trolley/bus lanes on Huntington, South Huntington avenues
August 26
Streetsblog Mass reports the T and the city have reached basic agreement on a plan that would re-do Huntington and South Huntington avenues to create a dedicated transitway - to be shared by both...
