Results tagged “beverly”

Two Beverly teenagers, Sajan Christensen, 18, and Adam Martin, 17, face murder charges after allegedly killing a third Beverly man in a fight "involving a baseball bat" at Balch Park on Cabot Street in Beverly last night. James Vernazzaro died at Beverly Hospital. The victim had stab wounds. Police said they have evidence including a baseball bat. [Globe] more ›

Beverly police are investigating the theft of an American stolen off of 86-year old Joseph Quattrochi's front porch. Quattrochi is a World War II veteran who participated in D-Day and was decorated for heroism for his service as a medic. He displayed the stolen flag for 42 years, has been married for 63 years, and started an engineering company that worked on NASA missions to the moon. more ›

-- Two men were stabbed on an MBTA bus in Roxbury during a fight. One man died. Police knew who both men were. Four men were seen fleeing the scene. [Herald] more ›

-- Two teenagers dressed in Celtics jerseys were sentenced to rehab and community service for breaking into a Mission Hill apartment in June. If Patrick Diamond, 18, of Greenwich, Conn., and Daniel Spillane, 19, of Marblehead, meet those terms, their cases will be dismissed in one year.[WCVB] more ›

-- Boston police have identified the bodies of the two men who were found dead and parked in a car outside of a Hyde Park apartment building last week. The victims, Anthony Glover, 33, of Taunton and Paul Roberson, 25 of Randolph, had been shot and stabbed to death, and police are looking for suspects in the murders. [BPDNews] more ›

• Since 2002, Boston has been unable to collect $66 million in fines from parking tickets.[Boston Herald]

• Massachusetts has lost a lot of millionaires - Who hasn't? - since 2008. We are still well ahead of Mississippi. We rock! [Boston Business Journal]

--Police officers, like everyone else, sometimes behave badly. Eight officers were suspended after a three-year investigation into steroid use by the BPD, FBI and the U.S Attorney. Four other cops were suspended for visiting the "Boom Boom Room", a Hyde Park brothel. The steroid-related suspensions range from 5-80 days. The Herald said Commissioner Ed Davis confirmed a grand jury is investigating the "Boom Boom Room". Extensive details on both matters are available at BPDNews.com. [Boston Herald] more ›

-- Sean Williams, the New Jersey Nets forward and former Boston College basketball troublemaker, was arrested over the weekend just before Boston College upset their division rivals, the despicable Duke Blue Devils. Williams, who left BC in a cloud of acrimony and marijuana smoke, was charged with violating an order barring him from campus. [WBZTV] more ›

Beverly's offensive Horribles parade float that made fun of Gloucester's recent spate of teen pregnancy may have been sour grapes. It turns out that the much wealthier Beverly only lags 25 teen pregnancies behind its Cape Ann neighbor for the title of Preggers City, MA. Meanwhile, despite recent headlines, Gloucester's teen pregnancy rate has actually declined 45% over the past decade. [Herald] more ›

--Prosecutors in Malden District Court have charged a 57-year-old employee of Everett High School with child rape. He is accused of molesting a boy over a seven month period last year. He has worked for the school as a janitor and coach of the junior varsity basketball team. [Boston Globe] more ›

--A Woburn college student was cleared of rape charges after prosecutors could not provide enough evidence that an attack had taken place in a bathroom at Felt nightclub in Boston. The man, 21, continually proclaimed his innocence, and said that any acts were consensual. The prosecution had alleged that the woman was unconscious, but didn't have enough evidence to take the case to trial. [Boston Herald] more ›

--Two people were killed in a brutal murder-suicide in New Bedford yesterday. A man stabbed a woman with a steak knife before stabbing himself to death. The man also went after the woman's roommates, stabbing one and biting another. [Boston Globe] more ›

--The body of a dead woman was found in a car in Malden. Police are treating the case as a homicide but have not yet disclosed many details about what might have happened. The family of a woman who has been missing since February 13, the owner of a Malden hair salon, say they are "99 percent sure" it is her. [Boston Globe, WBZ] more ›

The drawbridge between Beverly and Salem has been stuck as wide open as Elly May's top blouse button since 7:15 this morning. more ›

Update: The Ted Williams tunnel has reopened. [WCVB] more ›

A barge busted up a bridge so there is no MBTA Commuter Rail service between Salem and Beverly. Newburyport/Rockport line that is. more ›

To say that the baristas behind Barismo.com are coffee fanatics is a little bit of an understatement. For example, Ben Chen, an engineer by day, actually bought his own coffee-bean roaster in Taiwan, and then started making modifications to it (drilling extra holes so flames could lick the beans directly; hooking it up to a computer to better monitor roasting conditions). So when Bostonist went to a Barismo coffee tasting (or “cupping”) last week... more ›

--The Legislature is going to consider banning spanking tomorrow. That's spanking of children, not "please, sir, may I have another" frat-spanking or whatever role-playing you do with your significant other. [WCVB] --A man's SUV became stuck on train tracks in Beverly last night just as a commuter train was heading toward him. He escaped in the nick of time. His SUV got creamed. [Photo-WCVB] --The Roman Catholic Archdiocese plans to close at least two schools... more ›

SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses hitting the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and some baseball player named Barry Bonds is a liar whose pants, it seems, are totally on fire. LAist continues to cover the... more ›

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market... more ›

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and... more ›

--Pot has a distinctive odor. Some describe the scent as that of burning leaves, or socks aflame. Either way, the scent of marijuana is powerful, and very little can cover it up. However, two perps tried valiantly to hide the smell of their weed from the BPD by keeping "over 30 tree air fresheners" in their vehicle. It didn't help. K-9s and officers found a bag of pot in the guys' glove compartment after and... more ›

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it's sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an ideal... more ›

BPD News: "Sometimes, It Pays to Be Quiet." Hear that, silly lawbreakers? An underage drinker got busted because he and his friends were making noise. Maybe the headline should have read, "Sometimes, It Pays to Drink Quietly." Also in the maybe-you-should've-been-more-subtle department, residents helped the police break a male prostitution ring in Roxbury. If it's loud enough for the neighbors to hear you, then you're gonna get caught. However, the roommate of the guy running... more ›

Boy, oh boy. Bostonist has been watching too much of the reality TV these days. We got hooked on this season's Real World one Saturday in the early afternoon when we just sat down to kill some time, 2 hours later and we've got to know what frat boy John is going to do to piss off Svits this week, or why Paula's a bitch for being a lesbian. Don't even get us started on 8th and Ocean (we say boob job = bad idea). But it's VH1 that really takes the cake. They've got the scoop on the Soup, the Best Week Ever, a whole lineup of crappy reality shows with washed up celebrities (“celebreality”), and tonight they’ll feature the South Shore boy Jim Behrle. more ›

OK, not really. In another one of those completely unsurprising developments that Bostonist feels obliged to mention, Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey has officially announced what everyone already knew: She will be running for Governor. more ›

We knew it was that time of the year when we saw them all huddled together at the Hynes Convention Center T stop, shouting something about “Thin Mints.” Of course our ears perked up and before we knew it, we had shelled out $16.00 for two boxes of Shortbreads and two boxes of “Caramel Delites” (which used to be called “Samoas” back in the day). Yes, we are currently in full swing for the three... more ›

It’s not Santa Claus, but Snoop Dogg, that will be comin’ to town this week to stop the spread of violence that has recently been plaguing the city of Boston, which has reached a 10-year high for murder rates. Okay, it’s actually Snoop-aloop’s mom, Beverly Broadus Green, an evangelist minister, who will be speaking at the independently run Dorchester Epiphany Middle School tomorrow. She’s helping to kick off a national campaign to combat violence and... more ›