Jamaica Plain

Transit Police report arresting three men they charge terrorized a 14-year-old on an Orange Line train that had just pulled into Jackson Square around 7 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

Fresh off awarding some three dozen new alcohol licenses, the Boston Licensing Board today began interviewing a new set of applicants for some of the beer-and-wine and all-alcohol licenses the state legislature last year approved for 13 specific Boston Zip codes: Read more.

Scott Van Vorhis talks to some neighbors of the Kennedy Elementary School on Bolster Street in Jamaica Plain, where a city contractor is drilling all these holes to build a $15-million geothermal heating and cooling system that will help cut the city's carbon emissions - but which in the meantime means neighbors have to put up with the sort of noise that comes from drilling deep holes - and dumping dirt from those holes.

Both Boston and Cambridge firefighters responded to the banks of the Charles River around 4:45 p.m. on reports of people walking on the river, roughly in the area of Fairfield Street in the Back Bay. Read more.

Jim Sullivan, who along with several other swan fans, had watched over Marble the swan since his hatching last year in Ward's Pond, reports that Marble was found dead today on the ice at Jamaica Pond, likely a victim of the avian flu that has killed other waterfowl there in recent weeks. Read more.

A federal magistrate today approved extradition to Turkey for a teenager facing the equivalent of motor-vehicle homicide charges after  he allegedly sped around a 17-m.p.h. curve at more than 100 m.p.h., slamming into people on the side of the road, killing one of them and injuring four others. Read more.

Boston firefighters responded to 205 Boylston St. in Jamaica Plain for what turned into a three-alarm fire, around 11:10 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected plans by the venerable Hatoff's on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain to add more gas pumps, after nearby residents fumed over what they said would be more pollution and noise from motorists filling their tanks with the cheap gas. Read more.

Last week, as part of its "safety surge" program, Boston installed 13 speed bumps on Allandale Street in Jamaica Plain, between the parkway and the entrance to Allandale Farm, which turns out to also be the town line with Brookline. That's 13 speed bumps on roughly a half mile of road. On the plus side, the slower speeds could reduce the odds of serious crashes - and could give your passengers more time to enjoy looking at Curtis and Willard, the farm's two beefy bois.