A federal judge yesterday sentenced Mohammed Chowdhury, 47, to 92 months in federal prison for trying to hire somebody to kill his wife after she kicked him out of their house and took up with another man - whom he also wanted dead. Chowdhury's initial planned killer absconded with the money Chowdhury paid him - and then contacted the FBI, which sent a trio of undercover agents to convince Chowdhury to hire them instead. He did, but only after trying to bargain them down from their initial $10,000 price for each murder to just $4,000 apiece, which he told them was all he could afford as a con ..read more

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say started harassing a woman on the Green Line at Kenmore and finished by punching her in the left side of her face at Park Street, shortly before 10 p.m. on April 17. Read more. Wed, 04/17/2024 - 21:53 Neighborhoods:  Downtown Topics:  Crime The T Free tagging:  Green Line Park Street facebook twitter email print ..read more

At 11:47 a.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays due to "a signal issue" at Park Street. facebook twitter email print ..read more

A company renovating the skyscraper at 1 Lincoln St. in Downtown Crossing yesterday won the right to buy a liquor license for a currently unoccupied space to serve what it says is a growing demand for full service restaurants as more people return to office work by opening at least one restaurant, but possibly more. It's the second time in four months the Boston Licensing Board has approved the purchase of a scarce liquor license by a landlord as an enticement to bring in somebody to build out a restaurant, rather than for an already operating concern. In December, the board approved a simila ..read more

Fire and firetrucks light up the sky. Photo by Ryan. Boston firefighters responded to the Fens off Boylston Street around 11:30 p.m. on Thursday for what turned out to be a dumpster fire, not the more traditional spring brush fire, which may have become a thing of the past, anyway, now that the reeds have all been cut down. Thu, 04/25/2024 - 11:25 facebook twitter email print ..read more

A federal judge yesterday sentenced William Giordani of Manchester, NH to three years of probation for the way he showed up at the Harvard Science Center with a bag full of Roman candles, bottle rockets and wires in it at the bidding of somebody who hired him through Craigslist - who then called police at Harvard seven times to warn them that bombs had been planted around the campus and to demand a large Bitcoin payment to keep them from going off. Giordani pleaded guilty in January. Whoever hired him - and spoke to him on the phone - remains at large. No actual bombs were found on the campus ..read more

A federal appeals court yesterday tossed a lawsuit by a group of Nantucket residents who say the wind turbines now being built off their island will kill endangered right whales. In its ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit concluded that federal officials did so properly consider the impact of the wind farm on migrating right whales to come to a conclusion that the turbines and their bases likely pose no threat to the whales: [National Marine Fisheries Service] and [Bureau of Ocean Energy Management] followed the law in analyzing the right whale's current status and environm ..read more

Alvaro Larrama, a bouncer at the Sons of Boston bar on Union Street, pleaded guilty today to manslaughter for the March, 2022 stabbing death of Daniel Martinez, a Marine veteran from Chicago in town to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Josh Wall sentenced Larrama to 17-20 years in state prison. In his plea, Larrama, 40 and an East Boston resident, admitted that he fatally stabbed Martinez in the chest. Prosecutors had earlier said that the stabbing came after Martinez and friends were turned away at the bar's door ..read more

The new owner of 110 Canal St. near the Garden says it will soon file plans to turn the empty seven-story building into an 82-room hotel. Rhino Capital Advisors, based at International Place, bought the building for $14.6 million in December - down from the $24 million its seller paid for the building in 2021 - according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. The building is home to an empty Boston Beerworks, which closed in 2021. In a letter of intent filed with the BPDA this week, Rhino says it wants to charge ahead with the project to serve both people coming into town for events at ..read more

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Savannah Kinzer, fired from her job at the Cambridge Whole Foods in 2020, should be allowed to continue her wrongful-termination and discrimination suit against the company. The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston overturns a lower-court judge's decision to dismiss a suit by a number of Whole Foods workers across the country who alleged the chain fired them in retaliation for engaging in a "protected" protests against the company's ban on Black Lives Matter face masks in 2020. The appeals court decision applies only to ..read more