At 9:27 a.m., the MBTA reported Orange Line delays due to a prematurely deceased new Orange Line train at Forest Hills, a day after another new Orange Line train refused to leave Forest Hills.
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Pair got the max for the minimum after they pulled a knife at a Brookline clothing store, police say
Brookline Police report they are looking for a pair of shoplifters who legally became a pair of armed robbers when one of them "brandished a knife when confronted" at the TJ Maxx store on Harvard Street near the Allston line on Jan. 15.
If they look familiar, contact Brookline Police at 617-730-2222.
By adamg -
1/23/24 - 10:40 am
On her usual walk around Millennium Park this morning, Mary Ellen couldn't help but notice the evidence that somebody had driven up onto the soccer fields at the top of the park and done some donuts:
"I don’t know how bad the field was since hopefully it was frozen," she says, then adds there was also evidence of some karmic retribution: "They did slide right into the fence."
By adamg -
1/23/24 - 10:25 am
Handmaid got a good view of this morning's sunrise over Morton Street and the Arborway in Forest Hills.
Mary Ellen got a good view of those clouds, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Read more.
By adamg -
1/23/24 - 9:54 am
A federal appeals court in Boston yesterday re-opened a lawsuit by the Mexican government against American gun makers and a Boston-area gun wholesaler alleging the companies are deliberately encouraging the flow of deadly assault weapons south of the Rio Grande. Read more.
By adamg -
1/22/24 - 9:55 pm
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Christopher Barry-Smith today ordered the striking Newton Teachers Association to pay $25,000 for not returning to work today after declaring the union in civil contempt for disobeying his order to return to work today and calling for increasingly steeper fines over the next few days: Read more.
By adamg -
1/22/24 - 4:47 pm
Nichole Davis gets the scoop: The be-tuxed bird spotted moving around the harbor wasn't a penguin but a thick-billed murre, a black-and-white Arctic bird that is not completely unheard of in these parts in the winter. So it also wasn't a heron.
By adamg -
1/22/24 - 4:15 pm
At 1:44 p.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Red Line due to signal problems at Harvard.
By adamg -
1/22/24 - 4:06 pm
Muerl reports the Teamsters sent a semi loaded with speakers drive around Newton school headquarters today blasting "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister.
By adamg -
1/22/24 - 3:25 pm
A long-time nurse at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center says she got the first of two required Covid-19 shots under pressure from hospital administrators - and with God's OK - then fell seriously ill, refused the second shot and was fired. Read more.
By adamg -
1/22/24 - 12:55 pm
Salt, salt everywhere.
A gagging citizen files a 311 complaint about the amount of salt Boston Public Works has put down over the past week: Read more.
By adamg -
1/22/24 - 12:27 pm
The Boston Registry Division has released the top 20 baby names for 2023.
By adamg -
1/22/24 - 11:03 am
Artair Geal discovered these 1980s ads for Prime Computer, which turned the old Carling Brewery on the shores of Lake Cochituate into a minicomputer powerhouse, and which apparently dabbled in romance advice on the side: Read more.
By adamg -
1/22/24 - 9:52 am
Bright and early at 6:28 a.m., the MBTA reported one of its new Springfield specials on the Orange Line refused to budge from Forest Hills. The train has since been shoved out of the way.
By adamg -
1/21/24 - 9:25 pm
Newton teachers are defying a court order and remaining off the job tomorrow after weekend bargaining sessions failed to produce an agreement.
By adamg -
1/21/24 - 4:11 pm
A woman who got into an argument with her sister after a night on the town punched her to the ground, then ground her footwear into her head, which she then slammed into the pavement several times on Dec. 8, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Read more.
By adamg -
1/21/24 - 2:29 pm
On the Channel explores the pothole that just keeps getting bigger on Thomson Place, an increasingly busy Fort Point Street because Boston Public Works won't fix it, not because the department is shirking its duties but because of the street's oddball status as a private way. With a detailed history of why the street remains a private way, going back to the turn of the 20th century.
By adamg -
1/21/24 - 1:13 pm
Police are looking for the driver of a pickup truck they say plowed into two pedestrians on Ipswich and Boylston streets in the Fenway, then just kept on driving down Ipswich, shortly after midnight. Read more.
By adamg -
1/21/24 - 12:34 pm
The Red Line's day started with a cracked rail near Charles/MGH. It continued with at least two dead trains on the Braintree branch, which the MBTA reported at 8:41 a.m. Then, at 10:48 a.m., the T announced more delays due to a moribund train at Downtown Crossing.
And so Greenzo's Curse continues.
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