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.
By adamg - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 2:58pm
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By adamg - Mon, 02/10/2025 - 3:11pm
A federal jury today acquitted Litang "Henry" Liang, a former director at Chinatown Main Streets, of charged that he spied on members of Boston's Chinese-American community and tried to recruit some of them to back the regime, according to court records. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 11:15am
GBH reports on yet another dying gasp from the dying Steward Health Care. The chain had promised $100,000 to the Allston Brighton Health Collaborative to provide farmers-market vouchers for poor people, then never paid, then paid after GBH reported on that and now it wants the money back.
By adamg - Fri, 01/24/2025 - 9:27am
The Heights reports on an incident at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir Wednesday night, in which state troopers drove onto the path around the reservoir to try to get some fools off the ice, then a well meaning bystander saw one of the cruisers disappear, which the person thought meant it had plunged into the reservoir and called 911, when, in fact, it had just disappeared behind some trees or something - but of course the call brought even more first responders until they figured it out.
By adamg - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 11:09am
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a 2 a.m. closing time for Day & Night Cereal Bar at 6 Tremont St. in Brighton, which will be changing its name to Sweet & Comfy and beefing up its current menu of cereal-drizzled desserts with sandwiches. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 1:04pm
The Boston Licensing Board next week considers requests by restaurant owners at opposite ends of the city to open into the wee hours. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 01/01/2025 - 2:48pm
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 289 Corey Rd. in Brighton for a fire in the basement and on the first floor around 3:45 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 12/29/2024 - 7:32pm
Sarah Iwany came across this moment frozen in time: A turkey by the side of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Brighton.
By adamg - Sun, 12/29/2024 - 3:13pm
The driver of this bus atop Jersey barriers at Guest and Arthur streets in Brighton will no doubt have an interesting story to tell his dispatcher how he wound up like that, around 2:10 p.m. No reported injuries.
By adamg - Fri, 12/20/2024 - 11:36pm
Boston Police report arresting the woman they say rummaged through people's belongings at a toy drive at the Brighton Center Corrib Pub this past Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 12/19/2024 - 3:06pm
For the third time in two weeks, somebody in a Toyota wound up ensnared on Green Line tracks, this time at the end of the B Line at Boston College. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 4:54pm
A Boston man was arraigned yesterday on charges he stabbed somebody in the back five times after a show at Roadrunner on Guest Street in Brighton shortly after 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 1. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 12/18/2024 - 3:57pm
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say rummaged through people's belongings at a toy drive at a Brighton restaurant Sunday evening until she found a purse and then made off with it. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 12/17/2024 - 4:44pm
The owners of an unusual "mission style" stucco three-family house sandwiched between two Brighton-style apartment buildings at 1954 Commonwealth Ave. have filed plans to move the building closer to the sidewalk, reconfigure it for six apartments and build a six-story, 20-unit building right behind it. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 12/17/2024 - 9:58am
Brighton Main Streets reports that Scoop N Scootery at the corner of Washington Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton has closed. Fans will now have to trek all the way to Linden Street in Allston for some of its ice cream. Brighton Main Streets adds, though, that another ice-cream place might be moving in.
By adamg - Sun, 12/01/2024 - 10:44am
A man was stabbed in the back across the street from Roadrunner, 89 Guest St. in Brighton, shortly before 2:40 a.m.
The victim was transported by Boston EMS to a local emergency room. A man with a knife tried to stab two other men, but failed.
By adamg - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 2:48pm
Boston College is fighting back against a worker who's suing it for disregarding what he claims is his religious right to not get a Covid-19 shot in a way that other organizations facing similar suits cannot: It argues it has its own religious rights under the First Amendment to require workers to get vaccinated. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 1:29pm
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the state wiretap law bars Suffolk County prosecutors from using video recorded by an undercover cop buying drugs from an alleged dealer in East Boston and Brighton because the cop didn't get a warrant first. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 11/13/2024 - 12:51pm
A federal judge ruled yesterday that a fired landscaper at Boston College can continue his case that his 2021 firing for refusing Covid-19 shots violated his religious rights under the First Amendment. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 10:38pm
The Heights reports Boston firefighters responded to the area of Lake Street and Undine Road around 2:45 p.m. for a brush fire in woods there.
The entire state is under a red flag warning until at least 6 p.m. on Wednesday because of a drought that has persisted even as deciduous trees shed their leaves, creating huge swaths of particularly flammable areas.
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