When Boston Animal Care and Control said last week they have found Moodini the Roslindale Steer, they said he was out back of the Walgreens off American Legion Highway near Crane Ledge, the wooded hill a Texas developer wants to blast to kingdom come to put in an apartment complex.
But one nearby resident says he has proof Moodini didn't just hoof it to the top of the hill - he spent considerable time on it, and he has proof in the form of photos of lots and lots of cow patties: Read more.
Fernando, corralled behind the pharmacy.
Boston animal-control officers and MSPCA farm-animal rescuers today captured the bull that had gone missing in Roslindale in June. Read more.
A person was shot at the Mobil station at 783 Blue Hill Ave. at American Legion Highway around 5:15 this morning. Read more.
Boston Police and Animal Control responded to American Legion Highway near the Walgreens and Flaming Grill buffet around 7:20 this morning on reports of a bull that had been wandering around there until some people in a UHaul chased it up into the woods of Crane Ledge next door. Read more.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed a man's gun convictions related to the way he killed a co-worker at a Roslindale garage in 2019 because prosecutors failed to prove he didn't have a gun license, but upheld his conviction for manslaughter, which means he will remain behind bars. Read more.
A Texas developer that wants to build a suburban-style low-rise apartment complex on 14 acres of hillside that a Mattapan church owns off American Legion Highway this week sued both Boston and the BPDA, which has now twice rejected the development proposal as inappropriate for the city. Read more.
Dr. Wendy Huang treats the cat at Angell (photo by MSPCA-Angell).
The MSPCA reports its trying to find the owner of a severely injured cat that a worker at the Stop&Shop on American Legion Highway in Roslindale found lying in the store parking lot as she left work shortly before 11 p.m. on Feb. 11. Read more.
WCVB reports one person was pronounced dead at the scene after a crash at Blue Hill Avenue and American Legion Highway around 10:45 p.m. on Saturday. A second person was taken to a local hospital, where he died.
Boston Police report eight arrests, dozens of tickets and 19 vehicle seizures and one gun seizure during a weekend series of raids at several locations from Roslindale to Dorchester on Saturday aimed at busting up the large rolling parties of scooters, ATVs and speaker-equipped and booze-filled cars that have become a regular event across the city. Read more.
Crash scene at St. Michael Cemetery on Canterbury Street this afternoon.
Boston Police report arresting a local man on a variety of gun charges early this morning after he allegedly crashed into a State Police cruiser at an entrance to St. Michael Cemetery on Canterbury Street on the Roslindale/Jamaica Plain line around 12:30 a.m. Read more.
Most developers don't need to be told twice, but the BPDA has yet again rejected a proposal by a Dallas firm to construct a nine-building, 270-unit apartment complex on what is now a heavily wooded hillside on American Legion Highway next to the Stop & Shop strip mall. Read more.
BFD's drone-mounted thermal imager helped firefighters direct water to hot spots.
Mt. Mulchmore, Landscape Express's mulch mountain at 425 American Legion Highway in Mattapan, caught fire this afternoon, the Boston Fire Department reports. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting two men in the parking lot of the McDonald's at 718 American Legion Highway in Roslindale after finding "a Glock 30 with thirteen rounds in the magazine, and a Glock 19 with forty rounds in the magazine" in their SUV around 4:10 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
In a rare but detailed rejection, the BPDA on Friday said no to a Texas developer's plans to carve out a hillside along American Legion Highway next to the Stop&Shop/Walgreen's strip mall for a complex with 270 apartments in nine three-story buildings with 331 parking spaces. Read more.
A Milton developer is asking the BPDA to let him reduce the amount of garage parking he has to provide at a 49-unit apartment building between Cummins Highway and American Legion Highway, next to the Stop & Shop, from 61 spaces to 49. Read more.
The owners of the Simco's stands in Mattapan and Roslindale today acknowledged they paid 20 workers below even the federal minimum wage and refused to pay overtime, in a proposed settlement of a US Department of Labor complaint filed in US District Court in Boston. Read more.
A four-year-old who fell from a fourth-floor window at 12 American Legion Highway, near Blue Hill Avenue last Wednesday died today, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 riddle tonight about a live chicken at the intersection of American Legion Highway and Walk Hill Street in Roslindale.
Clouds seen through the old Blockbuster sign that still stands by the side of American Legion Highway, in the mall where the Popeyes is in Roslindale.
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