The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed a man's conviction on a count of illegal possession of a firearm, because the stun gun police found in his trunk looks nothing like a gun as currently defined by state law. Read more.
The Revere Journal reports the Revere City Council is demanding answers from the US Postal Service on why mail delivery in the city sucks, just like in Brighton and Mission Hill.
CommonWealth Beacon answers the local political question of the year: Why is one of the Supreme Judicial Court's two clerks elected by voters in Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop?
It's a fascinating historical story involving voter anger over the way the SJC back in the day refused to stand in the way of a fugitive slave being re-captured in Boston to be sent back into slavery down south in 1850. Doesn't explain why the post is still elected, but then again, this is Massachusetts, where if we did something once, we are often compelled to do it forever and ever.
Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly Budd today swore in Maura Looney as the SJC's Clerk for the Commonwealth, replacing Francis Kenneally, who was appointed a judge in the district-court system earlier this year. Read more.
A chain of "pregnancy resource centers" - including outlets in Revere and Brookline - that won't offer referrals for abortions for pregnant patients wants the state to leave it alone and stop warning people about them. Read more.
For the second time in four years, a car company has sued Revere for the way the city let a tow company sell off a car without first notifying the car company, which still had a lien on it. Read more.
A Boston man with a history of whipping it out in public was ordered held without bail for at least 90 days his arrest for outbound masturbating at Beachmont on the Blue Line in full view of a woman heading inbound Tuesday morning, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Transit Police report arresting a 56-year-old man they say "committed a lewd act" in the direction of women at both Beachmont and Maverick on the Blue Line yesterday morning - and that he's been pulling the same stunt since at least 2016.
East Boston Municipal Court records show that Francis Costa, Jr. was scheduled for arraignment today on a charge of open and gross lewdness, subsequent offense.
Innocent, etc.
Matt Frank walked along Revere Beach today as artists finished up their sand sculptures for the annual sand-sculpting festival today, was particularly taken by this giant cat, "throwing some serious annoyed cat energy at its sculptor."
After watching the sunset from East Boston yesterday, Matt Frank was up early to catch the sunrise with a feline friend at Revere Beach this morning.
Mayor Wu today endorsed Allison Cartwright for one of those elected positions that long ago ceased having any policy issues on which we could judge candidates: clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County: Read more.
The MBTA has gone full bustitution between Maverick and Suffolk Downs because of a wire problem at Airport, the nature of which they don't specify, but that's where the trains put up their connectors for those wires.
TransitMatters reports that while, yes, Blue Line trains now trundle along in less without slow zones, the peak-times trip between Wonderland and Bowdoin still takes longer on average than in February, 2023, before the T announced zillions of slow zones everywhere.
TransitMatters says that's because while the tracks are now in good shape, the Blue Line is still suffering "due to a switch issue, a signal issue, or a more significant ops issue altogether."
The MBTA reports more delay-inducing signal problems on the Blue Line, this time at Airport.
The owners of the Squire in Revere today sued the Small Business Administration over its refusal to forgive one of the two emergency small-business loans the strip club got in the early days of the pandemic. Read more.
Bright and early, well, early at any rate on this rainy day, like 5:21 a.m., the MBTA announced delays on the Blue Line due to signal problems near Orient Heights. Fortunately, the T updated at 5:46 a.m. that the problem had been fixed.
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