A magistrate judge in Fort Lauderdale federal court yesterday released indicted Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins on a $200,000 bond and agreed to let him travel by himself back to Boston - where ...

The Crimson reports the regime is looking to invalidate Harvard University patents based on federal grants, which of course is totally not an ex post facto sort of thing to do just because you want to ...

Boston Police report arresting a man they say used a brick to smash his way into the Cricket Wireless store in Dorchester's Fields Corner, then tried to wheel away with his loot stuffed in a shopping ...

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday voted to let Tao's, 336 Newbury St. in the Back Bay, glow up its current lineup of Korean and Japanese cosmetics with shoju and Japanese whiskies. Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board today approved Roger Berkowitz's plans for a new seafood eatery at Logan Airport's Terminal A, at which he says he will offer the sort of quality seafood people know him for ...

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday decided to take no immediate action on a request from the owner of Aguasvivas Market, 926 Morton St. in Mattapan, to add Caribbean and Latin American beers and ...

A Bluesky user happened to be at DTX when one of those Big Belly trash-compactor things outside the Corner and EB Horn burst into flames around 5:15 p.m. Read more.

The Boston Public Health Commission reports a bloom of cyanobacteria (a.k.a. blue-green algae) in that stretch of the river. Read more.

Suffolk County Sheriff Stephen Tompkins, 67, was arrested in Florida today after a federal grand jury in Boston indicted him on charges he extorted $50,000 from a cannabis concern seeking to open shop ...

Boston firefighters responded to 40 Florence St. in Roslindale for a fire on a second-floor porch shortly before 6:30 p.m. Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board today gave Fiskie's Cafe, 27 Harbor Point Blvd. in Dorchester, permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Read more.

Midsummer Dunks shows us the scene at Ruggles around 4:20 p.m., when a Needham Line train was declared to be pining for the fjords. Read more.