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08/22/2026

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/little-spotted-tree-killers-showing-force-boston

08/22/2026

The USS Constitution announced yesterday it's ceased its daily 8 a.m. and sunset cannon fire, not because of complaints from newly arrived Navy Yard residents but because of some vague "current restrictions." Read more.

08/22/2026

Little spotted tree killers showing up in force in Boston

Spotted lanternflies, which bore into trees for sap, are popping up across Boston. Read more.

08/22/2026

Cambridge Police say officers responding to a report of four suspicious people in a parking lot behind 675 Massachusetts Ave. at Prospect Street in Central Square fatally shot a man in his 60s who got out of a car and pointed his own gun at them shortly after 8 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

08/21/2026

Former Westroxer peered into what's left of the REI at whatever they call Landmark Center these days and spotted this scene that looks like it belongs in a remake of that Twilight Zone episode with the department-store mannequin who forgets she's a mannequin after her month among the living, right,....

08/21/2026

The Boston Public Health Commission reports another blue-green algae bloom in the Charles River Basin, so it's time for another warning to stay away from the water from the Mass. Avenue Bridge to the Science Museum. Read more.

08/21/2026

Shannon O'Brien today sued state Treasurer Deb Goldberg and the Cannabis Control Commission over the way O'Brien was forced out of her job as commission chair - charging Goldberg violated her civil rights, illegally used her power as a state official to get confidential, private information to smear...

08/20/2026

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/man-runs-allston-red-light-gets-charged-124-forged-debit-cards-many

Boston Police report arresting a man officers initially stopped because he ran a red light at Harvard and Commonwealth avenues in Allston, before realizing he was a guy wanted for "an ongoing ATM card fraud investigation," the case for which was bolstered by the "numerous credit/debit cards in the c...

08/20/2026

An owner of the former Sofia Italian Steakhouse on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury yesterday agreed to plead guilty to paying his employees partially in cash to reduce the amounts he had to report to the IRS and the state over seven years. Read more.

08/19/2026

A Roslindale woman was arraigned today on charges she used an aluminum baseball bat to smash the door of her ex's parents' apartment in the Stony Brook Commons apartments off Washington Street in Roslindale last month, then shoved them out of the way while threatening them with the bat before racing...