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11/23/2025

In conclusion: AI sucks.

There's a video floating around online that purports to be a news report on a nosy White woman with a stupid little dog who called 911 when she spotted her new apartment neighbor, a Black man - who turned out to be Boston's new "police chief." It's a great story - not for the anger it's supposed to....

11/22/2025

Boston Police report arresting a teen they say was 15 when he shot two Stoughton High School students at Gladeside Avenue and Donwood Terrace in Mattapan, killing one, on July 5, 2024. Read more.

11/21/2025

Two developers have filed plans to replace a house turned into an insurance office with a five-story, 23-unit apartment building at 1428 Dorchester Ave., near Adams Street in Dorchester's Fields Corner. Read more.

11/21/2025

Mary Ellen took a cold snap of the frost across the Charles River at Millennium Park the other day. See larger.

11/20/2025

Boston firefighters responded to 4294 Washington St. in Roslindale Square, near Kittredge Street, for a two-alarm fire in a triple decker around 2 p.m. - even as other firefighters were still dealing with a two-alarm fire in a triple decker in Hyde Park. Read more.

11/20/2025

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 7 Roxana St., behind Richy's in Hyde Park around 1:30 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.

11/20/2025

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Ren Rodgers, 28, of Hollis, NH guilty of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing a man in the back at the Hotel Indigo on Friend Street near North Station in February, 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

11/20/2025

A developer this week filed plans for a four-story, 61-unit condo building along Bartlett Station Drive as part of the overall Bartlett Place redevelopment of what was once an MBTA bus yard off Washington Street in Nubian Square in Roxbury. Read more.

11/20/2025

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for a new neighborhood pub at 289 Dorchester St. in South Boston. Read more.

11/20/2025

The Boston City Council yesterday voted to formally recognize today's remembrance of transgender and gender-diverse people murdered because of who they were and to establish an advisory council to help guide city policy on LGBTQIA2S+ issues. Read more.

11/20/2025

Morning in Mattapan. See larger.

11/20/2025

The family of a Sherborn man who died after kicking a moving Green Line trolley and then falling under it at North Station early on May 30, 2023 today filed a wrongful-death suit against the bar where he and his girlfriend had spent several hours and he had allegedly consumed numerous beers and shot...