BOSTON (AP) — The ownership group that controls the reigning NBA champion Boston Celtics says it intends to sell all its shares of the team. In a statement released Monday, Boston Basketball Partners LLC said it intends to sell the majority of its shares in 2024 or early 2025. The balance of its shares would […]
A man has been arrested and is being charged with arson in connection with a fire inside a Boston pub. Officers arrested Prasiddha Baruwal, 23, of Everett on Saturday, and is being charged with arson, breaking and entering at night with intend to commit a felony, and willful malicious destruction of property over. Crews responding […]
CANTON, Mass. (AP) — John O’Keefe’ s title was Boston police officer, but to those who loved him, he was Johnny, J-J or affectionately, the Godfather. His girlfriend once called him “the patron saint of Canton.” That girlfriend, Karen Read, is now on trial, accused of killing O’Keefe in a case that has attracted national […]
A former lab manager at Northeastern University has been convicted of staging a hoax explosion at the Boston campus and then lying about what happened to a federal agent. Jason Duhaime, 46, from San Antonio, Texas, was convicted on three counts Friday by a federal jury. He faces up to five years in prison and a fine […]
CANTON, Mass. (AP) — The woman accused of ramming her luxury SUV into her boyfriend and callously leaving him on the ground before a snowstorm had dated the Boston police officer briefly when they were in their 20s, and they reconnected after the pandemic. John O’Keefe, the victim in the Karen Read trial, was a […]
The jury is now deliberating in the case of Karen Read, a Boston-area woman who has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of her police officer boyfriend. Read, 44, will soon face a verdict on whether she murdered John O’Keefe — who died in January 2022 — or if she was a victim […]
A historic Boston restaurant that had been undergoing renovations went up in flames late Monday night, prompting a massive emergency response. The four-alarm blaze tore through the former Jacob Wirth Restaurant on Stuart Street, according to officials and video from the scene. Crews responding to the decades-old German beer hall found heavy fire on all […]
‘Heart was in my throat’: Woman nearly robbed of $12,000 by scammer at East Boston ATM Megan Bates says she was meeting her friends for lunch Friday in East Boston, and it was a cash-only restaurant, so she went to an ATM on Porter Street to take money out. “So I went to the ATM, […]
In 2013, the Boston Marathon bombing killed three people and injured more than 250 others West Yorkshire Police Mohammed Farooq mugshot A man has been accused to attempting to detonate a bomb he said was “double the size” of the device used in the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombing outside of a hospital in the […]
Jun. 20—Steve Greenlee, executive editor of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, is stepping down this summer to become a professor and lead a student news organization at Boston University. Greenlee, 54, announced his resignation in a note to staff members Thursday. His last day will be July 26. “I’ve agonized over this […]
Boston police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a woman in connection with assault and battery in Roxbury. According to Boston Police, the incident took place around 7:22 p.m. on Tuesday, June 18 in the area of 10 Roxbury Street. The suspect is described as a light-skinned female, 20-30 years old, about 5′5″, heavy […]
The warmer weather is bringing the crowds back to Boston’s open-air drug market, and neighbors say it’s fanning out deeper into neighborhoods. The concerns were addressed Tuesday evening at the June community meeting of the Working Group on Addiction, Recovery, and Homelessness. Some South End residents said their quality of life issues are already proving […]