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As Mass and Cass becomes an encampment again, Boston wins state approval to rebuild the Long Island Bridge

By adamg - 8/10/23 - 10:12 am

The state Department of Environmental Protection yesterday granted Boston the permit it needs to rebuild the Long Island Bridge, which will let it re-open Long Island as a recovery and treatment campus. Read more.

Cigarette moocher turns violent, smashes man with bottle at Quincy Center T stop, police say

By adamg - 6/14/23 - 8:44 am

Transit Police report arresting a man they say demanded a cigarette from a couple standing on the Red Line platform at Quincy Center, then hit the man with a bottle and threatened to stab the woman, around 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

Little fuzzball on Squantum beach

By adamg - 6/1/23 - 1:31 pm

Mary Ellen spotted the baby plover at Squantum the other day.

It's like the Red Line keeps stepping on rakes, this time a train in Quincy had trouble with brakes

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 10:37 pm

The MBTA reports 25-minute delays on the Braintree branch even after workers managed to dispose of a train "which had its brakes activated," and not in a good way, at North Quincy.

The night the lights went out in Quincy

By adamg - 5/6/23 - 11:14 pm

National Grid reports 3,655 homes and businesses in Quincy lost power at 10:48 p.m.; company estimates 12:45 a.m. for restoration.

Owners of Asian markets to pay $800,000 to workers denied overtime

By adamg - 4/11/23 - 10:53 pm

The owners of C-Mart stores in the South End and Quincy and one formerly in Chinatown will pay $800,000 in restitution and penalties to some 150 workers, the state Attorney General's office announced today. Read more.

Laughing masturbator on the Red Line arrested, police say

By adamg - 3/7/23 - 1:16 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Cambridge man they say played with himself while staring and laughing at the woman sitting across from him on an outbound Red Line train between JFK/UMass and Quincy Center around 9:30 a.m. yesterday. Read more.

Police say Red Line creeper lived up to stereotype: He tried to lure two girls with promise of candy and puppies

By adamg - 3/2/23 - 11:20 am

Transit Police report that around 6 p.m. on Sunday, two girls - 11 and 12 - were standing on the Red Line platform at North Quincy when, they told police:
Read more.

We hope nobody had to pee on the dead train near North Quincy

By adamg - 1/16/23 - 9:14 pm

The MBTA reports there were delays of up to 20 minutes inbound on the Braintree branch of the Red Line after a train developed one of those embarassing "mechanical issues" shortly before 8:30 p.m. But everybody's back to as hunky-dory as it gets on the Red Line these days, the T says.

Psychiatrist who refused to answer court-ordered questions over his Covid-19 vaccination status appeals judge's dismissal of his case against the hospital that fired him for not getting shots

By adamg - 1/12/23 - 12:48 pm

A Quincy psychiatrist fired by Mass General Brigham after it rejected his request for an exemption for Covid-19 shots on both medical and religious grounds is appealing a judge's ruling to toss his case. Read more.

Hyde Park woman and teen pal charged with slicing, stomping woman in Quincy road rager

By adamg - 1/9/23 - 3:47 pm

State Police report arresting a Hyde Park woman on charges she used a pair of scissors to try to carve up another woman in Quincy Saturday afternoon - and her alleged 16-year-old accomplice on charges that after the woman was done, she kicked the victim in the head. Read more.

Man charged with kidnapping woman at Wollaston T stop, raping her repeatedly, then dumping her in a Brockton parking lot

By adamg - 11/14/22 - 5:09 pm

NBC Boston reports on his arraignment for the Saturday attack.

Feds set up fake money-laundering ring to catch real money-laundering and drug ring

By adamg - 10/13/22 - 11:42 am

A man from Staten Island and six Boston-area men were arrested today on money-laundering and cocaine-distribution charges based in part on evidence obtained by a group of FBI agents and informants posing as their own Latin American cocaine-money laundering ring, according to documents unsealed in Boston federal court today. Read more.

Braintree Red Line service halted after two bodies found on tracks in Wollaston

By adamg - 9/26/22 - 8:53 am

NBC Boston reports the bodies of a man and a woman were found on the tracks this morning - but were not hit by a train. Shuttle buses are running instead between Quincy Center and JFK/UMass, but there are lines.

Of course repair work on the Red Line overnight caused delays this morning

By adamg - 8/2/22 - 2:19 pm

The T started the day running shuttle buses instead of Red Line trains out of Braintree this morning because an equipment vehicle involved in repair work derailed near Quincy Center and damaged the third rail, WCVB reports.

Court to Quincy: Boston can rebuild its bridge to Long Island

By adamg - 7/25/22 - 10:52 am

Boston can rebuild the bridge to Long Island, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled, upholding a state decision to allow the project despite implacable opposition from the city of Quincy. Read more.

Two guys sought for pointing a gun at somebody at Wollaston station

By adamg - 6/13/22 - 10:42 am

Transit Police have released photos of two guys they say pointed a gun at somebody at Wollaston on the Red Line around 3 p.m. on Friday.

If they look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous tip to 873873.

The Blue Hills Reservation keeps catching on fire

By adamg - 5/18/22 - 8:15 pm

Steve H. looked out the window of JetBlue Flight 1222 inbound to Logan from the south shortly before 7 p.m. and spotted what appeared to be "a sizeable brush fire" in the area of the Blue Hills Reservation.

There's never a guarantee when you take the train from Braintree

By adamg - 3/18/22 - 8:10 am

It was Trouble City on the Red Line out of Braintree this morning due to a dead train near North Quincy.

Feds link now dead Quincy Nazi to four anti-Semitic arson fires; brother indicted for trying to conceal evidence against him

By adamg - 2/16/22 - 3:06 pm

FBI Boston: Arsons at Chabad Centers (Needham)

Federal officials today announced the arrest of a Quincy man they say tried to obstruct their investigation into why his alleged Nazi of a brother might've set fire to orthodox Jewish centers and a Jewish-owned business in 2019. Read more.

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