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Clerk at Dorchester Avenue market stabbed in the stomach in robbery; nearby eyeglass place has rock thrown through window
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Orange Line commute is no fun; a brand-new train refused to run
Shiny and new tracks don't do much good when a shiny new train just dies and then won't be budged, as happened this morning at Chinatown, where one of the new Orange Line trains despaired of life and ...
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Flaming leaves at Stony Brook shut the Orange Line early this morning
Boston firefighters responded to the Stony Brook Orange Line station around midnight after smoke began filling the station from a fire on the outbound tracks. Read more.
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Driver slams into house on Washington Street in Roslindale
A driver ran his or her car into the front steps of a triple decker at 4436 Washington St. at Wellesmere Road in Roslindale ...
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Marcella Street in Roxbury raked with gunfire; houses, cars hit, but no people
Around 3:30 a.m., somebody fired as many as a dozen rounds along Marcella Street in Roxbury between Highland and Centre streets - but with shell casings also found on the other side of Centre on New ...
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City raises cane over stench at BU-adjacent chicken-finger joint
ISD and the chain can't agree where the smell in the dining area is coming from - the chain blames the city and its aging infrastructure - but the chain is hoping to re-open in time to feed ravenous ...
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Man gets life after admitting he killed a mother of six daughters, two of them his
A Suffolk Superior Court judge yesterday sentenced a man to life in prison after he admitted he killed Terkeshia Boykins, 40, by repeatedly stabbing her in her Mattapan bedroom in 2022, the Suffolk ...
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One way or another, the gang knew it would have its pound of flesh
A roving UHub photographer snapped this turkey mob outside 1050 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge today, then scurried away ...
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Nearly fatal double stabbing at Mass. Ave. diner started when man kept insisting on dancing with one victim's wife, police say
A man who wouldn't take no for an answer from a woman he wanted to dance with at the Liberty Diner on Mass. Ave. last August ended up pulling out a black-handled knife and stabbing the woman's husband ...
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Antisemite with an arsenal wanted to rape Jewish women and shoot people outside temples, police in Beverly say
Beverly Police report arresting a local man they say had built up a stockpile of parts for 12 unlicensed guns and rifles even ...
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Police launch crackdown on scourge of illegal Newports sold behind the Grove Hall Stop & Shop
Boston Police report arresting a man they say was selling bootleg Newport cigarettes and illegal weed out of his car behind ...
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Those Red Line signal gremlins have once again won; cause problems from Quincy Center to Wollaston
Around 7:20 p.m., the MBTA sent out word that Red Line riders could expect delays of up to 15 minutes - even including the dreaded standing by at stations - due to Yet More Problems with signals, this ...