Update: Board found no violations for either incident.
A downtown bar and one in East Boston had to explain fights that erupted when off-duty workers from other joints violently acted out at closing time, at hearings before the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
Acklerley Communications of Massachusetts yesterday sold the small parcel where it had a billboard on Washington Street in Egleston Square to the city of Boston for $300,000, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.
Some things don't change much: The steepleless King's Chapel at Tremont and School streets today looks pretty much like it did back in 1800, when this engraving was made (click that link to see Tremont Street from Court Street to the long gone Carver Street).
Compare to the view from last year: Read more.
A Dublin man was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail after he was charged with raping a woman at the Omni Parker House, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that car dealerships that loan out cars to customers awaiting repairs to their own vehicles are in the rental business, and that means they are covered by a federal law that prohibits their financial liability for any problems caused by the cars' drivers - even if they are unlicensed and in a car that wasn't supposed to be taken out of state. Read more.
Walk up School Street from the Downtown Crossing Walgreens and look up at the back of the building at the corner of Province Street, and you'll see these two ox skulls staring back at you. Read more.
Marco shows us the scene this morning at Washington and School streets in Downtown Crossing, where one of those MBTA shuttle buses found itself blocked in and unable to make the turn because of an MBTA truck parked right at the intersection.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation on School Street downtown:
There is a coffee pot (large silver with spout) in the garden along the side of School St by the Alley next to the mailbox. It's silver and in the shrubs next to the street. People commenting it could be something dangerous.
At Beethoven and Washington streets shortly after 10:30 p.m. A knife was recovered on Beethoven Street.
People watching firefighters in action. Photo by Emily Borque via Kristin MacDougall.
Boston firefighters responded to School Street for a large trash fire in an alley next to the Omni Parker House shortly before 10 p.m.
Smoke-belching aftermath. Photo by Kelley Duff.
But Susan Tran reports that's where a manhole burst into flames and began to smoke this morning. Firefighters in action.
Around 9:40 p.m. on Monday at 140 School St., across from Arcadia Street, Capt. John Greland reports.
Two men who got into an argument on Washington Street in Egleston Square pulled out guns and fired at each other shortly after 3:30 p.m. according to police and City Councilor Matt O'Malley. Read more.
DD808 looked down and spotted tons of pugs in the courtyard of Old City Hall on School Street this afternoon.
NBC Boston reports a homeless woman climbed down a manhole on School Street downtown and then got stuck. Firefighters rescued her around 3 a.m.
WBZ reports on the incident this afternoon on School Street - in which a police officer fired a shot at the fleeing gunman's car, a white Audi, after the driver backed into him. He was not seriously injured.
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