A man in a pickup truck was shot in the chest next to the Jackson Square Orange Line stop shortly before 2:40 p.m. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
A possible suspect on a scooter was detained several blocks away; a gun recovered along the route he took to get there.
Wellesley apartment buildings are apparently equipped with pitchforks in case some hay needs some pitching. The Swellesley Report reports (scroll down) that two men got into a verbal tiff in a local building when one grabbed a small pitchfork that just happened to be sitting there and threatened the other with it. The man then refused to answer his door when police came a-knockin', so they issued a summons to appear in court.
The MBTA is reminding Green Line riders that the B Line will be shut between Boston College and Babcock Street between Aug. 2 and 11 for some of those accelerated track repair sessions.
Bustitution, of course, except the buses won't stop at Allston Street, Griggs Street or Packards Corner for accessibility reasons.
GBH reports on why Boston has so many vacant lots in neighborhoods such as Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan that the city can now sell at low cost to developers - because of policies under which the city would quickly move to foreclose on homeowners in arrears on property taxes rather than try to help them out.
A bleary-eyed resident filed a 311 complaint at 1:33 a.m. this morning about the goings at the Roxbury Community College parking lot along Columbus Avenue:
People have school and work tomorrow. Speakers so loud windows are rattling.
Boston Police report that officers who pulled over a speeding car whose driver didn't have current registration on Wood Avenue near Oakwood Street around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday. Read more.
Chelsea Scanner this evening showed us what it might look like watching Jupiter from one of its moons, if that moon had large tanks and a casino.
Compare to this morning's sunrise over the water at Winthrop.
Boston Police report arresting a man on charges he stabbed somebody in the stomach outside the Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., around 4 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
Matt Frank watched the sun come up over the ocean off Winthrop this morning in the haze from forest fires way out West.
Cambridge Police report a driver hauling a boat on a trailer stopped for a red light at Cambridge and Third streets around 7 p.m., Saturday, the chains holding the boat on the trailer failed and the boat slid right into the road. Took about 40 minutes to get the boat off the road.
Eric Bender spotted this oil barge tied up at a dock near the Eddy and LoPresti Park on the East Boston waterfront today, along with its pusher tug, the Haggerty Girls (the orangish, red and white tower at the rear of the barge) - rather than at a petroleum depot on Chelsea Creek. He reports the Haggerty Girls crew told him they were waiting for divers to inspect the hull before continuing on their journey.
Boston firefighters responded to a fire at 587 East Broadway that spread to a neighboring house and went to three alarms before being brought under control this afternoon. Read more.
Two 15-year-olds were ordered held without bail after they were arrested on charges for holding up a pre-teen waiting for a cookout at the Children's Park playground at Intervale and Fernboro streets in Dorchester Thursday evening, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Boston Public Health Commission today announced the year's first batch of West Nile Virus-infected biters in Boston, in several neighborhoods. Read more.
Patrick Mendoza, the now former owner of Monica's Trattoria on Prince Street in the North End, today pleaded guilty to charges that he tried murdering a guy with whom he had beef in front of Modern Pastry on Hanover Street last July 12, Oscar Margáin reports from Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.
A South End man today sued a South Shore trampoline park for the foot slicing and subsequent infection and scarring he says he suffered because the place recklessly failed to provide any padding for the metal rod and associated bolts and screws that anchor its basketball hoops at its trampoline-basketball court. Read more.
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