Monday, June 26, 2017

There's an E. Coli outbreak at Chicken & Rice Guys and other top stories.

  • There's an E. Coli outbreak at Chicken & Rice Guys

    There's an E. Coli outbreak at Chicken & Rice Guys
    An E. coli outbreak shuttered three locations of the Chicken & Rice Guys, as well as its fleet of Middle Eastern food trucks, Boston health inspectors said Tuesday.The department confirmed seven cases of E. coli stemming from the Chicken & Rice Guys Allston location, which supplies food to the chain’s other outposts. The problems led to the temporary suspension of its operating license, Boston Inspectional Services Commissioner William Christopher Jr. said. Advertisement “We’re taking this ..
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  • Boston breaks record as temperatures soar in the city

    Boston breaks record as temperatures soar in the city
    Boston broke a daily temperature record Tuesday afternoon as the mercury rose to 84 degrees at 3 p.m., soaring past the previous 78-degree high for April 11 set in 1955, according to the National Weather Service.Record-breaking temperatures were also recorded at 2 p.m. in Worcester, where it reached 81 degrees. On April 11, 1945, Worcester reached 80 degrees. Advertisement At Bradley International Airport in Connecticut, where the previous record of 79 degrees occurred in 1955, the temperatu..
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  • Top spots to live in Greater Boston

    Top spots to live in Greater Boston
    Confidence is contagious if you’re selling a home in the Boston area. In 2016, the fifth year since home prices started rebounding after the ruinous Great Recession, single-family sales increased by double digit percentages for the state as a whole, according to Tim Warren, CEO of the Boston-based market tracking firm The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman. “The feeding frenzy is back, with crowded open houses and multiple offers,” he says. “That has accelerated price increases in th..
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  • Guitarist J. Geils found dead in Groton home

    Guitarist J. Geils found dead in Groton home
    John Geils Jr. was a Worcester Polytechnic Institute student when he met bassist Danny Klein and harmonica player Richard Salwitz — two friends with whom he would form a trio that grew into one of Boston’s best-known bands.A guitarist whose early tastes ran more toward jazz and blues than the rock ’n’ roll that would make him famous, Mr. Geils became a founder of the band that used an abbreviated form of his name — J. Geils Band — and gained stardom with the 1981 album “Freeze-Frame,” and its ..
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  • Boston Marathon 2017: Start times and route map

    Boston Marathon 2017: Start times and route map
    Spectators who plan to cheer on the brave participants in the 121st Boston Marathon will want to get to their viewing spots early on April 17. Here is a map of the marathon route, and the official start times for the nine divisions. The route: The race kicks off on Main Street in Hopkinton, and weaves through MetroWest cities like Framingham, Natick and Wellesley on Route 135 until it turns to Newton and Boston's Commonwealth Avenue. Runners continue on Commonwealth, turn onto Chestnut Hill A..
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  • Boston Public Library continues effort to preserve rare treasures

    Boston Public Library continues effort to preserve rare treasures
    It’s not easy to know what treasures exist within the Boston Public Library’s Rare Books Department. Some of it is even a mystery to the library staff taking inventory.The majority of the nearly 250,000 books and estimated 1 million manuscripts are categorized through old card catalogs. Titles or subject are typed out in a tidy script. In February, staff members began been electronically recording every book in the department for the first time. Advertisement “I would say that most of the co..
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  • From desolate streets to Boston's hottest destination

    From desolate streets to Boston's hottest destination
    The history of this Colonial-era city is long and rich and deep, and so it was just a few municipal eye blinks ago when its critical core had sleazy strip clubs on its edges, grime on its streets, and a deep and ugly hole in its heart that for the longest time seemed unfixable.That’s what makes Downtown Crossing’s renaissance so startling. That’s why to walk through the neighborhood today is to discover a deceptively stunning reality: Advertisement It’s a neighborhood, a truly vibrant one, ..
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  • Man shot near South Boston housing complex

    Man shot near South Boston housing complex
    A man was shot Tuesday night near a South Boston housing complex, where residents reported hearing multiple rounds of gunfire on a warm April evening. The injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, police said. The shooting occurred at about 7:42 p.m. near West Ninth and Dorchester Street, said Officer James Kenneally. Advertisement More than 100 residents of the Old Colony development milled around their front yards, or leaned out their windows, after the shots rang out.One reside..
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  • Bruins notebook: Charlie McAvoy skates with Zdeno Chara in top ...

    Bruins notebook: Charlie McAvoy skates with Zdeno Chara in top ...
    Interim coach Bruce Cassidy wasn’t ready to wholeheartedly commit to the defensive pairings for tonight’s playoff opener against the Senators in Ottawa, but it didn’t take long for rookie Charlie McAvoy to move up the practice depth chart.At yesterday’s practice, the recently signed Boston University product was on the top pair with Zdeno Chara and also worked on the first power-play unit. If the pairing does happen, it wouldn’t be the first time Chara has been teamed up with a youngster, altho..
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  • UMass Boston leader offers emotional defense of his tenure

    UMass Boston leader offers emotional defense of his tenure
    Outgoing UMass Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley delivered an emotional defense of his decade-long tenure Tuesday evening, telling the university system board of trustees that he is proud of everything he accomplished, despite the financial problems that now plague the campus. “I have no regrets because if the creator blesses me to walk on this campus three years from now and you walk it with me, I know you’ll see an incredible institution,” Motley said. Advertisement The remarks were the fi..
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