Crime roundup: Boston Police arrested Angel Rivera, 30, a resident there, on charges of manslaughter, unlawful possession of a firearm, and unlawful possession of ammunition.
Boston police say a large crowd blocked a South End intersection and attacked police cruisers in the early hours of Sunday morning . The BPD report said that officers responded to the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Tremont Street at just after 2:10 a.m. where a crowd of about 100 people had gathered, with some using vehicles to block the flow of traffic through the intersection.
While on a family vacation some five years ago, Alafia Young, then a mechanical engineer and event planner, took her two young daughters to a nail salon, hoping to share with them the rest and relaxation she and other adults enjoy on their visits.
Former patients of a treatment facility run by the Hampden County Sheriff’s Office— along with Dorchester City Councillor John FitzGerald— are going to bat for the program as lawmakers weigh moving all Section 35 involuntary commitment facilities for substance use out of jails or prisons and into facilities licensed or approved by the Departments of Public or Mental Health.
Municipal elections are the building blocks of politics. They are where issues surface and policies emerge, and where nearly all state and federal leaders get their start in politics. But held “off-cycle” in odd-numbered years and separate from state and federal elections, municipal elections have experienced declining participation for decades. It’s time to change that in Massachusetts.
Boston’s interim Parks Commissioner Cathy Baker-Eclipse was a guest at the Columbia Savin Hill Civic Association meeting to discuss planned improvements to one Savin Hill park and to discuss safety concerns at another site.
New studies show a Greater Boston population becoming more racially diverse, but also more disconnected by income, and by shifting educational choices following the Covid-19 pandemic. As multiple figures show, the “big sort” declared more than twenty years ago is diverging into new patterns, whether in high-income suburbs or in Boston schools.
Mayor Wu is taking on a new chief of staff as she transitions to a second term. Clare Kelly, who now works as the mayor’s chief intermediary to other elected officials, will replace Tiffany Chu, who has served as Wu’s top advisor since February 2022.
A celebrity chef’s re-branding concept for Savin Bar + Kitchen – which features prominently displayed photos of notorious Boston mobsters, including the late James “Whitey” Bulger and a sidekick hitman – is causing a stir in Savin Hill, where civic leaders on Monday voted to petition the business to remove the images.
The Strand Theatre on Columbia Road has hosted any number of shows over the decades from operas and rap icons to blues artists, fashion shows, and vaudeville acts. But lately, it has become a popular destination for Korean Pop groups—also known as K-Pop or the Hallyu Wave— as they make tour stops on their way across America.
A company led by a former director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority has signed a contract with the current owners of the defunct Carney Hospital campus to come up with a plan to make over the 12.7-acre site.
Below a glowing canopy of lights and traditional nón lá hats, each affixed with a slip of paper bearing a Vietnamese family’s immigration date, nearly 100 people gathered Sunday night for a temporary art installation marking a milestone in the campaign to establish a permanent Vietnamese diaspora memorial in Boston.
Police responded at 1:40 this morning to a report of a breaking and entering and a person shot at 107 Bloomfield St., where they found an adult male suffering from gunshot wounds inside an apartment in the three-decker style home.
Families, vendors, and elected officials gathered in Franklin Park last Saturday to kick off the launch of “Park’d,” a month-long food truck fair running alongside the Franklin Park Zoo’s Boston Lights exhibit.
Boston firefighters responded to 7 Becket St., off Dorchester Avenue and Gallivan Boulevard, for what turned into a 3-alarm fire around 7 p.m.