Boston Police have posted photos of a man they say they want to charge with assault and battery for an incident during a basketball game in the gym of the Oak Square YMCA, 615 Washington St. in Brighton, shortly before 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Damien Knighton, 41, of East Boston, to 9 to 12 years in state prison following his conviction earlier this month for sexually attacking four men at the MGH Back Bay Health Center, 388 Commonwealth Ave., in 2023, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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The rapidly shrinking federal Department of Education announced today it is taking time out from its efforts to self immolate to launch "civil rights" investigations into MIT and the New England College of Optometry for daring to try to help minority students. Read more.
Until we get the new drives installed (what, I wrote yesterday they'd be in by now? Yeah, no, sigh) and re-tune the database, we're trying to just keep the site running for core stuff like articles and comments). My apologies for all this.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a state law that generally protects government agencies from lawsuits over the actions of employees doesn't apply to the case of a Lynn-area bus driver who once left the wheel while his bus was still moving to attack one passenger and who left his bus in a blizzard to beat a man in the street who had rapped on the door to ask how to get a bus back to Boston. Read more.
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.
Yeah, I said this a couple of nights ago, but supposedly tonight's the night the Web host actually replaces the wheezing, hamster-powered ancient disk drives that UHub runs on and implants faster, more reliable SSDs (and then we can start doing more playing with tuning the database and the software to make them more efficient). Read more.
The owner of 31 Milk St. downtown has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to turn the top ten floors of the eleven-story office building into 110 studios and one-bedroom apartments, under Boston's office-to-apartments tax-break pilot. Read more.
Mary Ellen took in the dusting at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester has notified students accepted for fall admission into its PhD programs in biomedical research this fall that, sorry, it's rescinding their admission "due to uncertainties related to federal funding of biomedical research." Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that one of the men convicted of murdering Deondra Lee were sitting in lawn chairs outside their Dorchester home to watch July 4th fireworks in 2018 got a fair trial and so will remain locked up without the possibility of parole for the rest of his life. Read more.
Massachusetts and 19 other states and the District of Columbia today sued the Trump regime for its attempts to dismantle the federal Department of Education, which they say will cause "immense damage" to their educational systems and students. Read more.
WCVB reports a trolley near Park Street apparently rolled backwards into another trolley around 7:30 p.m. The trolleys were evacuated but there were no injuries. The Boston Fire Department responded, but left after determining it was a minor incident - although WCVB reports service was halted between Park and Government Center for about an hour.
In 1954, Joseph Welch, an attorney with the Boston firm of Hale and Dorr, began demagogue Joseph McCarthy's downfall when, representing the Army, he tore into the bully from Wisconsin and his toady, Roy Cohn, for going after a young associate at Hale and Dorr as an alleged Communist. "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" Welch began.
Yesterday, US Rep. Bill Keating, who represents areas south of Boston, reacted similarly when a Magat Republican from Texas misgendered US Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware: Read more.
Two Longwood Medical Area doctors today sued the Musk/Trump Administration, including Secretary of Vaccine Denial Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for a ukase under which a federal health-care agency has removed "peer reviewed articles" they wrote from a patient-safety Web site because they contained the words "LGBTQ" and "transgender." Read more.
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.
A Maine photographer who captured Boston activist Mel King in a pensive pose for a 2009 Boston Magazine article today sued MIT for re-using the photo without either his permission or payment. Read more.
Boston city councilors today declared Boston a sanctuary city for transgender people - but said that's only the start of drafting specific ordinances to back that up. Read more.
The Musk/Trump administration today appealed a judge's ruling that it start paying out several hundred million dollars appropriated by Congress for teacher training - including in Boston - arguing the judge doesn't know what he's talking about and if it actually pays out the grants appropriated by Congress, it might never be able to retake the money. Read more.
As the city rips up the new bike lanes on Boylston Street in the Back Bay and Massachusetts Avenue in Dorchester, merchants along Columbia Road in Dorchester, now the focus of a city transportation study, are saying: Not on our street. The Dorchester Reporter reports.
The Boston Real Estate Times summarizes a new report by Colliers on the state of the Boston-area life-sciences development market: Basically, we got too much lab space too soon and it could take years for even our hard-charging life-sciences sector to sop up all the currently excess space: We now have the highest lab-space vacancy rate in the country.
Jamaica Plain News reports on the formal opening of a 202-unit apartment building, owned by Pine Street Inn and managed by the Community Builders, at 3368 Washington St. that features 140 "supportive housing" units for people moving out of homelessness - with 24/7 on-site support staff - and 62 affordable family units.
