The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a Cambridge clerk-magistrate can hold public hearings on whether to bring charges against a couple dozen alleged clients of a ring that flew in prostitutes from Los Angeles and Las Vegas to render sexual services in high-end Cambridge and Watertown apartments turned into brothels. Read more.
Waltham District Court Judge Ellen Caulo set bail today at $10 million - or $100,000 cash - for the man accused of giving his pregnant girlfriend abortion pills in the guise of vitamins and iron supplements after he found out she was pregnant. Read more.
A Brookline man faces arraignment tomorrow on several charges related to the miscarriage he caused his girlfriend to have by slipping her abortion pills, the Middlesex County District Attorney's office and Watertown Police announced today. Read more.
DCR will be holding a public meeting Wednesday evening to help it map out a long-term plan for better managing the annual fall Head of the Charles Regatta between the Watertown line and the Charles River basin. Read more.
Banker & Tradesman reports that Watertown and Needham could end up exceeding state requirements for their rezoning efforts, and that Watertown has actually brought in urban-planning consultants to figure out the best ways to increase density in Watertown Square.
Update, 5/28/24: The two sides reported they have reached a settlement and asked a judge to dismiss the case. Terms were not disclosed.
Uncommon Grounds, with four coffeehouses in the greater Albany, NY area, yesterday sued Uncommon Grounds, which has a coffeehouse on Mount Auburn Street in Watertown, for trademark infringement. Read more.
Tony Ursillo watched the sun go down over the Common and the Charles River this evening.
Further upstream, in the ever aptly named Watertown, Pat Miguel Tomaino watched a nice sunset over the Charles as well: Read more.
Watertown News reports on a man who walked into a local marijuana shop, ordered up $36 worth of "pre-rolled marijuana cigarettes," then pulled out what appeared to be a gun and announced he'd be paying for them "the old fashioned way" and walked out with the product.
Dried bean curd salad. Photo by Sasha Patkin.
When we think of comfort food - food that warms our hearts and bodies and makes the world OK again - we think of noodles. Ramen, pho, macaroni and cheese. There's nothing like coming inside from a brisk fall day and sitting down to food that's clearly been prepared with care and delighting in the comforting textures and sensations of a warm noodle dish.
That's exactly what we found at Home Taste. Read more.
No sale: Visitors to brothel Web site today were greeted by seizure statement.
Federal officials today announced the arrest of two Korean nationals and a Korean-American on charges they ran a series of brothels in newer high-end apartments both here and in northern Virginia, following an investigation that began in 2020 that involved stake-outs, phone surveillance, rooting through trash and interviews with customers. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for a man whose gun-possession conviction it overturned earlier this year, ruling that while it is true the Supreme Court's latest Second Amendment ruling would have nullified his conviction, he was tried before that ruling was announced, so it goofed in overturning his conviction. Read more.
Watertown News reports on what turned out to be an apparently bogus call today.
The Boston Transportation Department has decided this is the year of the 39 and 57 buses - and has launched studies to see how to improve their routes to get people to and fro faster - and let them "wait comfortably at their bus stops and board the bus safely." Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspect via Cambridge PD.
Cambridge Police report they and their counterparts in Watertown are looking for a guy they say has robbed two spas at knifepoint - in North Cambridge around 5:50 p.m. on May 14 and Watertown around 4:50 p.m. on May 16. Read more.
Watertown News reports a three-alarm house fire on Thursday stated when some mulch in a barrel was ignited - by sunlight.
Watertown News reports (scroll down a few pages) police descended en masse on a local house shortly after midnight on April 26 after getting a call from a man who claimed he had just shot and killed his girlfriend there. In fact, he hadn't, and he wasn't in Watertown and a woman in the house was in the middle of a live performance on Twitch at the time.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a Supreme Court decision last year that lets people pack guns for protection outside the home means it has no choice but to overturn a Boston man's conviction for the gun and bullets Boston and Watertown police found in his glove box - but the court upheld his 2 1/2 to 3-year sentence for one of the magazines they also found. Read more.
A Watertown man who once coached youth soccer in Brighton faces a federal wire-fraud charge following his arrest today for allegedly convincing several people, including a relative and a former college acquaintance, to keep giving him money for "guaranteed" but, in fact, non-existent, high-return investments in African soccer clubs. Read more.
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