Update: The board approved the license request.
The owners of Roslindale Liquors on Corinth Street are seeking a license to open a new liquor store at the Stop & Shop strip mall at 950 American Legion Highway, near the Hyde Park line. Read more.
A crash between a motorcycle and a car where Cummins and American Legion highways and Canterbury Street intersect left the motorcyclist with multiple, but not life-threatening, injuries shortly before 10 p.m.
Travel New England had a front-row seat for a crash on American Legion Highway at 6:30 this morning that we'd love to hear the excuse for: Read more.
Rough soccer-field proposal. Morton Street at the top.
The Boston Zoning Commission today approved a plan by the developers of the Olmsted Green development to swap in a soccer field and tot lot for the four-acre urban farm that was part of the original plans but never built. Read more.
Richard Lugo, 43, of Dorchester, was arraigned yesterday on murder, assault and battery and motor-vehicle theft charges for an incident last fall that left one of his co-workers dead and another injured, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports two suffered non-life-threatening injuries when their car went up in flames on American Legion Highway near Morton Street around 1:15 a.m. The car was totaled.
Boston Police report that the person fatally shot behind 86 American Legion Highway on Friday was Vincent Lewis-Coppin, 18, known to his friends as Swervo.
Evidence markers at the scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Victim identified as Vincent Lewis-Coppin, 18.
A man was fatally shot in the chest at 86 American Legion Highway, near Franklin Hill Ave., around 7:35 p.m.
Two cars were heavily damaged in the crash, shortly before 11:20 p.m. on American Legion Highway near Stella Road.
Rendering by Embarc Studio, with birds.
City Realty of Brookline has filed plans with the BPDA for a 49-unit apartment building between Cummins and American Legion highways, next to the Stop & Shop and just a short walk from the Flaming Grill & Buffet at the other end of the strip mall. Read more.
The new Treasures on Washington Street.
Treasures, a thrift and antique shop, opened today at 4266 Washington St. in Roslindale Square, in the space where the Boston Smoke Shop used to be.
Meanwhile, workers today were converting the space where the Grossman's bargain outlet used to be at 630 American Legion Highway into space for Urban Renewals, which will be moving there from its current location on Brighton Avenue in Allston ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a Williamstown company's plans to convert City Farm on American Legion Highway into what would be Roslindale's first dispensary. Read more.
Around 9:30 p.m. at the strip mall at 650 American Legion Highway (the one with the discount stores, not the one with the Stop & Shop). The suspect showed a gun, grabbed the woman's wallet, then fled down the road towards Mattapan on a scooter or dirt bike.
Company lawyer and former City Councilor Mike Ross talks as company treasurer Brendan McKee listens.
A company about to open its first pot shop in Williamstown hopes to come to the other side of the state and turn a gardening and flower shop on American Legion Highway in Roslindale into a dispensary that would offer pot to both medicinal users and people who just want to get high. Read more.
Brittney Moon reports that the terror tom who had been going after students, teachers and parents for two weeks at the Haley School in Roslindale has a new home this morning: the Myles Standish Forest in Plymouth. Moon says that a sergeant from state Environmental Police managed to capture the angry walking party platter for transport way down the coast, far away from American Legion Highway.
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