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B Line out of luck due to a stuck truck

Roving UHub photographer Jake Kassen paused to admire the majesty that is a flatbed truck that suddenly dies just as it's crossing the Green Line at Blandford Street, jamming up trolleys in both ...
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Venerable Hyde Park Papa Gino's shuts down, leaving Boston with just one

The Papa Gino's at Hyde Park Avenue and River Street outlasted the Brigham's across the street, but turned off its ovens and served its last pie over the weekend. Read more.
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Judge tells ICE, again, he wants woman stuck in a Texas gulag returned to Massachusetts immediately

A federal judge today denied a regime request to stick an immigrant in a New Jersey prison rather than bring her back to Massachusetts from Texas prison like he ordered last Wednesday. Read more.
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One Red Line rider you don't want to get into a staring contest with - he'll punch you out, police say

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say expressed his frustration at somebody else allegedly staring at him on a Red Line train by punching him repeatedly. Read more.
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Owner of two-story Brighton office building proposes adding three stories to create 42 apartments

A developer has filed plans to add three more stories to a two-story office building building at 697 Cambridge St. at Dustin Street in Brighton and then turn the whole thing into 42 apartments. Read ...
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Middle-aged white guy ordered off Boston College campus for screaming racial slurs at Black students

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A crisp fall morning in New England

Mary Ellen captured the mist rising from the Charles at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning. See larger.
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Outpouring of support for Roslindale drag brunches against protesters who never showed up

Supporters of drag brunches and the LGBTQ community showed up en masse outside the Substation in Roslindale this morning to protest a planned outcry against its fourth monthly drag brunch by "an ...
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Three days after judge ordered her immediate return to Massachusetts, immigrant remains locked up in Texas; ICE wants to move her to New Jersey

Yesterday, two days after a federal judge in Boston ordered ICE to "immediately" ship a woman it had stuck in a cell in a Texas prison back to Massachusetts, ICE asked if it could instead ship her to ...
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B Line riders could only sit and stew; car on tracks at Chestnut Hill Avenue

A T worker could only gaze in wonder  at the Kia that wound up on the outbound Green Line tracks at Chestnut Hill Avenue, causing 20-minute delays along the B Line. Read more.
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Police hunt guy they say keeps exposing himself to kids in area of Mission Park

Boston Police report they are looking for a guy in connection with "an ongoing series of indecent exposure incidents occurring in the area of 835 Huntington Avenue during the morning hours." More ...
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Councilor wants to require public meetings should one of Boston's two remaining strip clubs seek to move from its alley to a main street but another councilor worries about ...

City Councilor Ed Flynn (Chinatown, South End, South Boston, Downtown) this week proposed a zoning amendment that would require at least one neighborhood meeting and a hearing before the zoning board ...