West Roxbury Roche Bros. this afternoon.
Members of the family that owns Roche Bros., which grew from a Roslindale Square meat market in 1952 into today's Roche Bros. and Sudbury Farms chains, are selling controlling interest in the company to a Connecticut food-delivery concern that has long been the chains' principal supplier of food and other products. Read more.
A developer says he will soon file detailed plans to convert the Boston Wharf Co. building at Summer and Melcher streets - the one that has long beamed its devotion to "industrial real estate" in bright red neon across Fort Point Channel - into 77 apartments, under the city's pilot tax-break program for that sort of conversion. Read more.
A person was found with possibly life-threatening stab wounds at Summer and Purchase streets across from South Station around 6:20 p.m. Read more.
On the Channel considers and reviews the Summer Street Steps and wonders how, with all the billions of public and private dollars poured onto the blank slate that used to be the Seaport, that's what we wound up with - complete with loudspeakers pumping out pop music like some mall in the 1990s. Read more.
We're not the only ones who prowl 311 complaints on the regular.
At 7:09 this morning, an irate citizen filed a 311 complaint about the parking situation along Summer Street in the area of East 1st Street in South Boston: Read more.
Update: The Suffolk County District Attorney's office identified the victim as Nicholas Marks, 40, of East Weymouth.
Live Boston reports a window washer fell 29 floors at 100 Summer St. just before 8 a.m. - and that numerous people saw him fall and called 911.
A grossed-out citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about situation on A Street under Summer Street in Fort Point: Read more.
Roche Bros. agreed to measures to reduce the way Blacks were "disproportionately subjected to stops" for alleged shoplifting and then permanently banned in higher numbers than similarly stopped whites to settle an investigation by the state Attorney General's office. Read more.
Update: Klyushin's sentencing has been canceled "until further notice."
Vladislav Klyushin, a Moscow IT executive held at the Plymouth County jail since 2021, could learn at some point how much longer he sit behind bars in the US following his conviction in February on insider-trading charges related to the theft of American corporate financial statements before their official releases. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Michael C. spotted Keytar Bear jamming in Downtown Crossing today.
A judge yesterday ordered 20 days of evaluation for a Boston man arrested after, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges, he tried to throw his wife into Fort Point Channel from the South Boston side of the Summer Street Bridge Wednesday. Read more.
A New York developer with an active Boston presence and a South Boston family say they will soon file plans to replace a garage built in 1945 with a three-story life-sciences building. Read more.
A San Diego real-estate firm says it wants to transform the floors above the CVS on Summer Street in Downtown Crossing into life-sciences labs and offices. Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to the old Edison generating plant at L and Summer streets in South Boston for burning construction debris about six stores up shortly before 8 p.m.
Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester 14-year-old for attacking officers down the street from where Boston cops were arresting a woman allegedly trying to set people on fire in the Downtown Crossing Roche Bros. Read more.
WCVB reports on the incident at 400 Summer St., where Suffolk Construction is putting up a building. The man who was in the car required four stitches to his nose.
8:47 a.m. Photo by Seth Lipkin.
Downtown workers and residents got a jolt this morning when two manholes blew up at Summer and High streets shortly before 8:40 a.m. One person was injured. Read more.
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