Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Three injured after car barrels into Freedom Trail tour group and other top stories.

  • Three injured after car barrels into Freedom Trail tour group

    Craig Caplan was selling Boston caps and T-shirts at noon Thursday from his carts near Washington and School streets when he heard an eruption of terror.“There was a collective scream of about 100 people,” Caplan said. “Everybody screamed and came running.” Advertisement He turned his head and saw a scene of chaos. Bystanders surrounded a silver Mercedes-Benz that had just barreled into a tour group walking the Freedom Trail. They were lifting the car to free a woman pinned underneath. The d..
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  • Extreme drought extended across Northeastern Mass.

    Extreme drought extended across Northeastern Mass.
    NORTH ANDOVER — With much of the state locked in a severe drought, Governor Charlie Baker urged the public on Thursday to restrict water use as officials extended support to farmers whose crops have been damaged by the withering conditions. Massachusetts is facing its worst drought in more than a decade, and areas of “extreme drought” have extended across the northeast part of the state, according to the US Drought Monitor’s latest report, released Thursday. Before last week, officials had not ..
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  • They went online looking for their prince. Instead they found a frog.

    They went online looking for their prince. Instead they found a frog.
    He found her on Plenty of Fish, a dating website promising matches that lead to stable, long-term relationships.Soon after their first date, Sara Pateras was smitten. Christopher Wehner, a 27-year-old who said he worked in marketing, was fun and smart, and could charm strangers at a party. Advertisement “My parents described him as their future son-in-law,” Pateras, 30,recalled. But in November 2015, the romance began to unravel when Pateras’s mother discovered that more than $4,000 was mi..
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  • From Scotland to Boston

    Q. I’m from Scotland. My fiancee is from Boston and we both met in London, where we currently live. We’ve been together for nearly three years, and I’m very lucky to be getting married to her on this month in Scotland. The other day, she told me she reads Love Letters. I’ll be honest: I didn’t know anything about Love Letters. Being Scottish and having never lived in Boston, it’s just not crossed my path before, so I’ve had a great day reading some of the classic letters, responses, and reader ..
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  • City delays vote on Southie Starbucks showdown

    City delays vote on Southie Starbucks showdown
    How about a taste of palace intrigue with your iced coffee?A proposal for a Starbucks shop on South Boston’s East Broadway, back for another go-around, drew packs of supporters and opponents to a City Hall hearing room on Wednesday. These licensing board votes are typically formalities. But in this case, we’re also talking about a fight over the character of a fast-changing neighborhood. Advertisement Many of the attendees filed out after the hearing ended, fully expecting the city’s licensi..
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  • 4-alarm house fire in Hyde Park displaces eight

    4-alarm house fire in Hyde Park displaces eight
    Boston Fire Department The 4-alarm blaze was extinguished at about 5 p.m. Thursday. Eight people were displaced Thursday after a four-alarm fire tore through a three-family home in Hyde Park, a Boston fire official said.The fire broke out at 1044 River St. at about 3:30 p.m. All eight residents, who are related, escaped without any injuries, said Jim Riley, a Boston Fire Department spokesman. Advertisement Four firefighters suffered heat, exhaustion and othe minor injuries. They were ..
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  • Police: Driver attempts hit & run in downtown Boston

    Police: Driver attempts hit & run in downtown Boston
    Updated: Aug 18, 2016 - 7:39 PM BOSTON - A driver is accused of hitting three people in downtown Boston and then attempting to run. "She was flying down School Street and plowed through the crowd," said Deacon John Larkin. Driver of car that hit 2 people ran off. Reports that she is a woman. Inside are a pair of glasses & shoes. #fox25 pic.twitter.com/0TrkgaZTEI — Capturegirl (@jenyp) August 18, 2016 Larkin was giving a historical tour and saw ..
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  • At least 2 taken to hospital after South Boston crash

    At least 2 taken to hospital after South Boston crash Updated: Aug 18, 2016 - 11:10 PM © 2016 Cox Media Group. BOSTON - At least two people have been taken to the hospital after a serious crash in South Boston. The crash happened just after 10 p.m. at the intersection of Old Colony Avenue and Dorchester Street near Joe Moakley Park. Police tell FOX25 at least two cars were involved. The intersection was closed for a police investigation but has since reopened. We are worki..
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  • Political Happy Hour: August 18, 2016

    Here’s your American flag Jell-O shot container of politics, from Joshua Miller of the Boston Globe, filing today from Somerville. MASSACHUSETTS POLITICAL PHOTO OF THE DAY, via Sam Doran of the State House News Service on Twitter: Boston state Senator Linda Dorcena Forry, Democrat of Dorchester, and Massachusetts Republican Party Chairwoman Kirsten Hughes, “Dem & GOP team captains, pose at today’s partisan tug-o-war @BSC_Gym” http://bit.ly/2b01MQe Advertisement THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS DEPART..
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  • Carr: Obama chills while nation simmers

    Carr: Obama chills while nation simmers
    Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama is playing round after round of golf and eating on the arm at la-de-da restaurants on Martha’s Vineyard as Milwaukee burns, Louisiana floods and illegal aliens hunt down and rape American women and children on mainland Massachusetts.In Haverhill, two illegals are arraigned for the Friday night rape of a woman at Riverside Park. One was deported in 2013, returned to the U.S. through Laredo last year and was issued a notice to appear before an immigration cour..
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