A Boston resident last week sued Pho Pasteur, 682 Washington St.. in Chinatown, for the way a meal there ended last month.

In a negligence suit filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Nathalie Murcia alleges she was finishing up a bowl of pho on Sept. 20 when she asked her server for some "fresh broth to go:" Read more.

A doctor who spent 29 years in the emergency room at Tufts Medical Center yesterday sued the hospital for at least $6 million for rejecting her request for a religious exemption from Covid-19 shots in 2021 because she believes the vaccines were derived from aborted fetuses and that goes against her Christian beliefs. Read more.

An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint about a hot-dog stand whose owner was selling hot dogs - and even cajun chicken - in Eliot Norton Park on the Chinatown/Bay Village line at 2:45 this morning: Read more.

A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint tonight about the unusually loud noise coming from the Vicinity Energy steam plant on Kneeland Street in Chinatown:

Very loud screeching sound coming from Vicinity Steam plant. Started around 9am yesterday and today. Still going on now.

Friendship BBQ, 40 Harrison Ave. in Chinatown, is seeking to extend its weekday closing time from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Read more.

A couple of men who began shouting "derogatory and transphobic words" at a drag queen grabbing an early morning meal last October at New Moon Villa, 15-19 Edinboro St. in Chinatown made things physical and when another person tried to break up the incipient fight, smashed a glass on his head and struck him with a chair, police told the Boston Licensing Board at a hearing yesterday. Read more.

Banker & Tradesman reports a San Francisco investment firm today paid $212 million for Avalon Bay's 29-story apartment building at 45 Stuart St. (next to the currently charred Jacob Wirth). Despite its new name, the building is a couple blocks away from the Common.

A Boston board that oversees a federally mandated limit on the total number of parking spaces in Boston Proper voted last month to forbid any more parking at a lot between Hudson and Harvard streets in Chinatown, arguing the 30-space lot violates the parking cap. Read more.

Boston firefighters responded to the Jacob Wirth building, 37 Stuart St., around 11 p.m. on Monday for what turned into a four-alarm fire extending across all three floors. Read more.

A Hanover man was ordered held in lieu of $5,000 bail at his arraignment on charges he refused to stop calling Tufts Medical Center to threaten to blow the place up - and to scream racial epithets at whoever answered the phone, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.