The Boston Public Health Commission today announced the year's first batch of West Nile Virus-infected biters in Boston, in several neighborhoods. The Commission says "the risk of transmission remains low," but says residents can reduce their risk even more through such steps as staying indoors from dusk to dawn, use government-approved repellents, including DEET, oil of lemon eucalyptus, picaridin, or IR3535, repair any torn screen windows or doors and knock over or drain everything on your property that might collect water in which the bugs could breed, including unused kiddie pools and old ..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. Mendoza, who has spent much of the past year behind bars, after police found him hiding out at a Cape Cod substance-abuse clinic, pleaded guilty to charges of armed assault to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition and illegal p ..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. In his suit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Juan Garcia says that while playing trampoline basketball on Dec. 10, 2022, he landed on one of the bases, slicing open his foot, which required medical care to staunch the bleeding and ease the swelling - and then more care for the infect ..read more

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Boston Police report arresting a man they say was walking around Humboldt Avenue and Townsend Street in Roxbury with a loaded gun in his waistband Thursday evening. Read more. Thu, 07/25/2024 - 07:50 Free tagging:  Humboldt Avenue Guns Townsend Street facebook twitter email print ..read more

Patrick Brusil makes the bold claim (although it will soon be a Jackson Square landmark since a developer wants to knock its home down for a new residential building). Note: It's a Facebook video. If you're not logged in and get a login screen, just click the X in the top right and you can watch it. facebook twitter email print ..read more

Though I’ve spent most of my adult life in “Greater Boston” but I don’t feel like I know the granular, “Inside Baseball” of what makes Boston tick. I’ve read ‘Common Ground’ and ‘The Last Hurrah and some basic history, but what are the authoritative books that say who’s who and how things really are? Like what’s the story with the BRA? Is there an Encyclopedia Bostonia? What families have power that you don’t read about in the papers? What are politicians’ long term aims? Neighborhoods:  Boston Topics:  Politics facebook twitter email print ..read more

A Boston Police officer was knocked to the ground when hit by a truck at North Washington and Thacher streets around 12:45 p.m. The driver stayed at the scene. facebook twitter email print ..read more

The MBTA board today approved a $54-million plan to replace the diesel-powered trains on the Fairmount Line with more climate-friendly battery-operated cars within four years, which could mean almost subway-like train frequency - and some relief for Readville residents who live near the yard where diesels now loudly vibrate, hum - and have their horns blared - into the early morning hours. The transformation will make the Faimount Line - the only one to run just within the Boston city limits - the T's first electric commuter line. Although the Providence Line has catenary lines, the T continu ..read more

Rendering by Embarc. A Newton developer has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to raze a single-family house at 434 Washington St. in Brighton Center and replace it with a four-story building with 18 residential units and ground-floor commercial space. Plans by Wesley Leung's Peninsula Capital Group also call for 11 parking spaces in a mechanical stacker system. The units will range in size from 510-square-foot studios to 800-square-foot two-bedroom units. Three of the units will be rented or sold as affordable - Peninsula's application does not specify whether the units will b ..read more