Boston Police report arresting a woman they say objected to the presence of officers on Friend Street, where she was enjoying some Sutter Home Sauvignon Blanc with a companion around 6 p.m. on Thursday, so she began swearing at them and when that failed to get them move along, hurled one of her bottles of the wine at a cruiser, hitting one of the cops. Read more.
West End
By adamg - 5/1/20 - 11:22 am
Workers on Tuesday will begin putting down stripes on Charles River Dam Road in preparation for bus-only lanes for the buses that will replace the Green Line between North Station and Lechmere for a year while parts of the current Lechmere Viaduct is torn down and then moved as part of the Green Line Extension into Somerville. Read more.
By adamg - 4/9/20 - 7:07 pm
CommonWealth continues an ongoing discussion with a Mass. General emergency-room doctor: Patients for whom there is no longer hope are allowed to have a family member with them; the hospital now has about four times as many Latino patients as usual due to Covid-19; and about a third of all patients at the hospital are now there because of Covid-19. Also more than 200 hospital staffers have tested positive.
By adamg - 3/19/20 - 10:37 am
WBUR reports Mass. General now has five patients with Covid-19 in its ICU and another 70 suspected cases in patients doing well enough to not need intensive care.
The Dorchester Reporter reports Carney Hospital is now banning all visitors - and has shut its Dunkin' Donuts - as it transitions to an all-coronavirus facility.
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By adamg - 3/12/20 - 10:10 am
The company that has a contract to sell Billie Eilish stuff got a court order yesterday that will let it and police go after anybody selling unauthorized merchandise outside the Garden on March 19, when she has a concert scheduled. Read more.
By adamg - 3/11/20 - 10:11 pm
Dr. Monique Aurora Tello, a primary-care physician at Mass. General, reported today from the MGH emergency room:
By adamg - 2/17/20 - 2:07 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Cambridge man on charges he stabbed one man and punched another in the face in a closing-time fight outside 222 Friend St. early Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/17/19 - 10:25 am
Architect's rendering
Construction of a 15-story, 90-room Cambria Hotel at 104 Canal St., at Valenti Way, should finally begin next year, five years after the city awarded a building permit, a lawyer for the property owner told the Zoning Board of Appeal today. Read more.
By adamg - 12/12/19 - 7:01 pm
Ed Lyons reports:
During a truly epic traffic meltdown near MGH today, everything was gridlocked until some homeless guy put down his cup, walked into it, and started quite aggressively managing the traffic, unclogging the intersection. He succeeded. People were waving and thanking him.
By adamg - 11/25/19 - 3:57 pm
NBC Boston reports prosecutors today charged that Fouad Baghdad-Zouggagh, 25, died early Saturday because Bryan Rice, 22, wanted his gold chain. Read more.
By adamg - 11/23/19 - 9:37 am
Victim identified as Fouad Baghdad-Zouggagh, 25, of West Roxbury.
Boston Police report a man was fatally shot around 2 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 11/22/19 - 10:00 pm
Transit Police report arresting Robert Gaul, 45, on charges he smashed a woman in the face with a blunt object for no particular reason as she sat in North Station Wednesday night. Read more.
By adamg - 11/21/19 - 4:03 pm
Update: Arrest made.
Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say used a "blunt object" to attack a woman in the commuter-rail section of North Station around 10:25 p.m. yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 11/8/19 - 10:11 am
The Beacon Hill Times looks at a Boston Transportation Department proposal to continue the Southwest Corridor walking and bike paths that now end at Dartmouth Street to the West End via routes that could include streets and parks in the South End, Bay Village, downtown, and Chinatown. Read more.
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