The Heights reports two Boston College students at an off-campus party on Undine Road in Brighton on Friday were injured when the railing they were learning against gave way, sending them to the ground.
French Toast Alert Level: 1 Slice / Low. Explanation.
By adamg - 03/15/2026 - 11:12pm
A man was shot at Washington and East Berkeley street in the South End around 7:40 p.m.
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By adamg - 03/15/2026 - 2:32pm
Our roaming UHub parade correspondent is in the heart of South Boston for the St. Patrick's Day parade. Read more.
By adamg - 03/15/2026 - 2:26pm
Transit Police report arresting two teenagers on charges they went up to somebody at the Orange Line Green stop around 9 a.m. on Friday and demanded his jacket after showing him a gun - which turned out to be a replica. Nearby Transit officers spotted the commotion, outran the two teens and arrested them on charges of being delinquent on a charge of armed assault with intent to rob, police say.
By adamg - 03/15/2026 - 1:22pm
Transit Police vowed they'd be confiscating borgs, and they did: Here's their initial haul of blackout rage gallons and assorted other containers at Broadway station on the Red Line. See larger.
By adamg - 03/14/2026 - 8:38pm
Boston firefighters responded to the three-story Building F at Westinghouse Plaza, off Neponset Valley Parkway in Hyde Park shortly before 8 p.m. for what quickly became a second-alarm fire in a rear building at the complex. Read more.
By adamg - 03/14/2026 - 6:13pm
WCVB gets the scoop on the JetBlue flight to Vero Beach because one of its reporters, Sharman Sacchetti happened to be onboard.
By adamg - 03/14/2026 - 5:43pm
A distraught resident filed a 311 complaint about the large sheets of building material that came flying off the roof of 1800 Commonwealth Ave. in the wind today, like a reprise of an old SCTV intro, but more dangerous because it wasn't scripted: Read more.
By adamg - 03/14/2026 - 11:22am
A federal judge yesterday sentenced John Magee Gavin, 35, to ten years in prison and five years of probation for coercing girls across the US and overseas to gratify him sexually via images on a Discord server, even as he was teaching their peers science lessons at the Josiah Quincy Upper School in Chinatown. Read more.
By adamg - 03/14/2026 - 10:20am
A federal judge yesterday ordered a halt to the regime's planned March 17 end of refugee status for Somalis, because the regime has yet to tell her what's so damn important about booting them now. Read more.
By adamg - 03/13/2026 - 9:14pm
WCVB reports getting home on commuter rail out of South Station this afternoon became a major travail due to the "slow speed derailment" of wheels on on one car of an outbound Providence Line train approaching Back Bay. No injuries at least.
By adamg - 03/13/2026 - 8:56pm
Transit Police said today they are seeking criminal charges against a route 95 driver for the way his bus crashed into "several vehicles and two buildings" at Playstead Road and Madison Street in Medford shortly before 2 a.m. on Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 03/13/2026 - 2:15pm
Developer Andrew Collins today sued a New York construction-company owner who has hired an auctioneer for a Tuesday sale of a more than 5-acre swath along Dorchester and Old Colony avenues that Collins spent several years acquiring. Read more.
By adamg - 03/13/2026 - 11:55am
Gov. Maura Healey and Attorney General Andrea Campbell today announces an online form for residents to report ICE goons doing the sort of things we've come to expect. Read more.
By adamg - 03/13/2026 - 11:42am
WBUR reports on the star chambers at immigration courts in Boston and Chelmsford where children - yes, including toddlers - are sometimes left alone to explain to a Justice Department "judge" why they shouldn't be deported.
By adamg - 03/13/2026 - 11:10am
Two Boston lawyers, one in state court, one in federal court, were each sentenced yesterday to more than three years in prison for stealing money from accounts they'd set up for clients. Read more.
By adamg - 03/12/2026 - 9:24pm
The Newton Beacon reports that new Mayor Marc Laredo put his training as a lawyer to good use: He found a way to paint the Italian colors down the center of Nonantum's main street without running afoul of state road rules. By delineating parking spaces with paint, the road will be too "narrow" to need a double yellow line.
By adamg - 03/12/2026 - 5:20pm
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy who used both his fists - repeatedly - and his saliva to attack somebody at the Prudential Green Line stop around 8 p.m. on Feb. 27.
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By adamg - 03/12/2026 - 4:51pm
Seems GBH has started talking up a "merger" with Boston's original NPR news station, in one of the only cities with dueling NPR newsrooms.
By adamg - 03/12/2026 - 3:52pm
Thomas Connor looked toward the Back Bay from the Longfellow Bridge this morning.
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By adamg - 03/12/2026 - 3:31pm
A federal judge this week ordered the immediate release of a man who came here as a a Cambodian refugee in 1983, but who has been locked up in an ICE cell for most of the last two months with ICE refusing to tell him what the "changed circumstances" are that require him to be shoved out of the country after decades here - and without any proof Cambodia will actually take him back. Read more.
By adamg - 03/12/2026 - 12:20pm
Boston officials last night described a transportation plan for the new White Stadium and its pro soccer matches that would include free shuttle buses from three T stops and more distant parking lots, racks for 1,000 bicycles, the use of a city parking-space app to let zoo-goers and golfers pull into Franklin Park even during matches and creation of the city's first new residential-permit parking area in years - one that would include something unusual for Boston: Visitor passes. Read more.
