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 - 1/30/25 - 1:47 pm
A Malden man who followed a woman to her South End home then tried to rob her at her door stabbed her husband repeatedly, only to get stabbed himself before he fled yesterday afternoon, police say. Read more.
By adamg - 1/30/25 - 9:22 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Rebecca Roth Gullo is looking to reopen the Gallows in 2026, although she didn't say where - the spot on Washington Street in the South End where it used to be has since been torn down for condos.
By adamg - 1/29/25 - 9:05 pm
A federal appeals court today upheld a lower-court judge's decision to toss a suit by a cardiac ICU nurse who claimed the way Boston Medical Center fired her in 2021 rather than let her keep working, unvaccinated, with the sort of intensely sick patients who would wind up in an ICU. Read more.
By adamg - 1/22/25 - 4:36 pm
A federal judge ruled today that Boston Medical Center had no way to safely accommodate a neonatal intensive care nurse's profession of faith against both Covid-19 shots and face masks and so had the right to fire her for refusing to get vaccinated. Read more.
By adamg - 1/20/25 - 12:03 pm
Police officers swarmed the parking lot of the South End Whole Foods on Harrison Avenue around 9:50 a.m. where they found a dark blue Mercedes SUV with front-end damage and missing its right-side mirror - matching the description of the SUV whose driver hit two women on Washington Street near Lenox Street in Roxbury Saturday, killing one of them and then speeding off. Read more.
By adamg - 1/19/25 - 11:34 pm
Boston Police are investigating a stabbing early this morning in the Castle Square apartment complex on Tremont Street in the South End. Read more.
By adamg - 1/18/25 - 11:10 am
A federal judge has ruled Boston Medical Center had the right to fire an endoscopy nurse - who could interact with 80 patients on a typical day - for refusing to get Covid-19 vaccinations. Read more.
By adamg - 1/2/25 - 4:17 pm
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about a small busted manhole cover in front of one residence on Pembroke Street in the South End: Read more.
By adamg - 12/27/24 - 5:10 pm
A bicyclist suffered critical injuries in a crash at Albany and East Berkeley streets in the South End shortly after 11:10 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 12/23/24 - 2:07 pm
The city announced today it's installed four vending machines that dispense Narcan, clean syringes and fentanyl test kits - with room for possible later additions that could include pregnancy test kits and socks - and is working to install another eight machines that dispense Narcan across the city. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/24 - 12:02 pm
Boston Police report they are now treating the Dec. 12 death of Shantel Gillespie, 30, in her apartment at the Harris, 390 Harrison Ave. in the South End as a homicide. Read more.
By adamg - 12/13/24 - 9:27 am
Police conducting a well being check in a fifth-floor apartment at the Harris, 390 Harrison Ave. in the South End, around 7 p.m. on Thursday found a body. Read more.
By adamg - 12/7/24 - 6:25 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man they say shot at another motorist's car after the two had some sort of road-rage incident on East Berkeley Street near Harrison Avenue in the South End shortly before 10:40 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 11/26/24 - 3:15 pm
A Suffolk Superior Court judge decided today to send Ronald Brown away for what is effectively a life sentence for a series of residential break-ins targeting women in the South End in 2016. Read more.
By adamg - 11/19/24 - 7:17 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a non-profit group's plans to convert a Shawmut Avenue office building into affordable apartments because it would have one apartment on the first floor despite being in Boston's coastal flood resilience overlay district, where residences are supposed to be higher than that in anticipation of flooding as sea levels continue to rise and storms become more fierce. Read more.
By adamg - 11/9/24 - 12:14 pm
A federal judge yesterday dismissed a wrongful-death suit against an officer in Boston Police's D-4 district by the family of Cristhian Geigel, who ingested a fatal dose of drugs even though he'd been in a holding cell at the D-4 police station in the South End for more than a day and a half in 2019 - and then lay in the cell, dead, for another 14 hours before police realized he was dead. Read more.
By adamg - 11/6/24 - 9:55 pm
Eight people were arrested yesterday following a Monday raid at a condo at 231 West Newton St., the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 10/26/24 - 12:25 pm
Boston Police report arresting a New Bedford man on charges he stabbed another man multiple times outside 474 Massachusetts Ave. in the South End Friday afternoon. Read more.
By adamg - 10/22/24 - 4:19 pm
In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.
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