Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report a man found lying in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at 140 Main St. in Charlestown around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday was dead from a gunshot wound.
Police say Joseph Donahue, 46, of Charlestown, was pronounced dead at the scene. He is Boston's first murder victim in 2025.
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say held up the 7-Eleven at 140 Main St. in Charlestown Sunday night. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court yesterday overturned Julio Baez's first-degree murder sentence, saying prosecutors failed to provide evidence that Baez knew the men who actually did gun down Ryan Morrissey on Main Street in Charlestown in 2014 were planning to shoot him. Read more.
Update: Restoration time pushed back to 2:15 a.m.
The Boston Fire Department responded to 265 Main St., near School Street, in Charlestown when a manhole exploded around 5:45 p.m. As of 9:20 p.m., Eversource is reporting 295 homes and businesses are without power, which it hopes to restore by 10:15 p.m.
What's a milkman to do?
A distraught citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about the block blocking truck on Eden Street in Charlestown this morning: Read more.
A Charlestown man was arrested Sunday night on gun charges by officers who recognized his freshly repaired Audi as the one that had gotten shot up a couple weeks earlier on McNulty Court near Walford Way in Charlestown's Bunker Hill development, Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report. Read more.
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 report this morning about the beer truck whose driver decided the best place to park it for deliveries is in a crosswalk on Main Street in Charlestown: Read more.
Delisle at hearing.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let former L'Espalier chiefs Matthew Dilisle and Peter McGough open a pasta-and-wine shop at 40 Main St. in Charlestown, where customers walking home from their jobs downtown could pick up some fresh pasta and pair it with what their attorney called "finer wines and more interesting beers." Read more.
According to Boston Police, around 12:30 this morning, a 29-year-old man from South Boston got into a truck being loaded with live lobsters in Charlestown and sped off. But wait, it gets even Affleckier: Read more.
Live Boston reports somebody was shot around 1:30 a.m. in the area of 140 Main St. in Thompson Square. Injuries not considered life threatening.
The current lowly garage. Photo by BPDA.
The BPDA has begun looking at selling the development rights to a Sullivan Square lot now used by Boston EMS - but with the proviso that anything built there include a new and two-bay ambulance garage that would let the city provide extra ambulance service in the growing neighborhood from a facility better designed to survive being in a flood plain. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports a short circuit sparked a fire at 311 Main St. that killed several pets and sent one firefighter to the hospital with a neck injury.
The fire was reported around 11:40 a.m. The six residents were not at home at the time.
Firefighters were hampered at first when they couldn't get any water.
Main Street remained a crime scene well into the night. Photo by Christopher Kiertz.
UPDATE: One of the two victims, Ryan Morrissey, died.
Around 9:40 p.m. outside 274 Main St. At least one of the victim's injuries were severe enough to have the homicide unit called in, just in case.
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