Ghost gun seized from teen
By adamg - Fri, 03/21/2025 - 1:12pm

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old they say fired several shots in the area of Harrison Avenue and Dudley Street shortly before 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 03/21/2025 - 9:48am

GBH reports state regulators have given their OK to plans for a $1.7-billion, 14-story, 320-bed cancer hospital on land now occupied by the Joslin Diabetes Center. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 03/20/2025 - 1:29pm

Boston Police responded to Howland Street between Elm Hill and Humboldt avenues on reports of gunfire around 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

Billowing smoke from trash fire
By adamg - Sun, 03/16/2025 - 9:37am

Update: BFD reports three firefighters were injured and that damage is estimated at $4 million.

Boston firefighters are on Gerard Street, near Mass and Cass, where a large trash-transfer facility erupted in flames around 8:30 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 9:18am

The Boston Sun reports that Jas Bhogal and Thomas Calus, owners of the former Alexandra Hotel at Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue, are readying a new redevelopment plan to turn it into a 68-room hotel - but without the modern steel and glass addition they once proposed plopping atop the current facade. Read more.

By adamg - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 4:21pm

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old for shooting a man at Dudley and Warren streets in Nubian Square in Roxbury shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 03/11/2025 - 10:39pm

A man was shot on Dudley Street at Warren Street in Roxbury shortly before 5 p.m.

At least one spent shell found across the street. Two suspects were detained, one at Cleveland and Moreland streets, the other on Warren Street near Moreland Street.

639 Warren St. rendering
By adamg - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 12:56pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-story building with 54 apartments and 9 condos on Warren Street at Crawford Street in Grove Hall. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 1:10pm

Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say had a gun loaded with 14 bullets outside the McDonald's at 301 Warren St. in Roxbury yesterday afternoon - but add that his pal, who ditched his own gun loaded with 7 rounds, managed to flee. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 1:18pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected plans for what would have been Boston's first non-hospital birthing center on Winthrop Street in Roxbury after nearby residents and the district city councilor said the new building was the wrong idea for a parcel on a historic residential street. Read more.

Rendering of proposed 134 Hampden St. self storage
By adamg - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 1:37pm

A Brookline real-estate firm has filed plans to embiggen an existing records warehouse at 134 Hampden St. in Newmarket Square to create a new self-storage facility - including a set-aside area specifically for self storage of wine. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 11:31am

Boston Police report arresting a man they say used a screwdriver to force another man to hand over a bottle of pills and money on Camden Street in the South End Saturday morning.

By adamg - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 10:52am

Boston Police report finding three people they suspect broke into an apartment at 66 Dabney St. in Roxbury's Warren Gardens Sunday night. Two were immediately charged with the break in; the third was taken to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the back, police say. Read more.

By adamg - Sat, 02/22/2025 - 11:55am

Boston Police report officers who initially stopped a driver they watched speed through two red lights in a car with excessive tint early Friday arrested him for the the two bags of crack and roughly $24,000 in stolen checks they say he had in the car. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 11:55am

Boston Police report arresting a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old on gun charges, along with four other people they were hanging out with inside an apartment building on Cabot Street in Roxbury yesterday evening. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 3:18pm

Keon Leary, 45, was sentenced to 9 to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty to various drug and gun charges the day he was set to go on trial, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 2:30pm

The State House News Service reports on a protest yesterday at what's become the White Stadium demolition project in Franklin Park.

By adamg - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 9:51pm

Two people were shot on Dudley Street, one at Dudley and Mt. Pleasant Avenue, the other outside 225 Dudley Street, closer to Greenville Street,  around 8:40 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 10:18am

A group of professors and students affiliated with Harvard Medical School write that it's all well and good for a consortium that includes Harvard and MIT to develop wind and solar farms in Texas and North Dakota, but what about the carbon-belching MATEP plant right in the middle of all those Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research centers in the Longwood Medical Area?

By adamg - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 11:07pm

Boston Police report arresting a man on charges he drove into two pedestrians, killing one, on Washington Street between Northampton and Lenox streets on the night of Jan. 18 and then drove off. Read more.