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Man with sharpened chopsticks calls bomb threat into Tremont Street cineplex after ejection for harassing a worker, police say A Beacon Hill man who made "inappropriate comments" to a woman employee at the AMC Boston Common on Tremont Street - and then threatened the manager who ejected him with a pair of sharpened chopsticks - called in a bomb threat to the theater from a Washington Street restaurant around 3:40 p.m., poli...

eBay, disgraced executives to pay $50 million to Natick couple they terrorized for months; wiill also make $7 million in contributions to non-profit groups eBay, its disgraced former CEO, two other disgraced executives and some of their minions who, unlike their leaders, went to prison, yesterday agreed to pay $50 million to David and Ina Steiner, a Natick couple whose online reporting they didn't like and figured the answer was to drive them insane th...

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/after-26-years-owners-defunct-salem-street-bakery-finally-win-approval

After 26 years, owners of defunct Salem Street bakery finally win approval to do something with it: Add five stories of condos The Zoning Board of Appeal today gave the owners of a long-shuttered one-story commercial building at 97 Salem St. in the North End permission to add five stories worth of condos and to re-open the bakery they had once run there. Read more.

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/board-approves-conversion-old-logmein-building-fort-point-145

Board approves conversion of old LogMeIn building in Fort Point to 145 apartments The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to turn a long vacant office building at 320 Summer St. at A Street into 145 apartments. Read more.

Man charged with murder for the death of a scooter driver police say he rammed on purpose in Grove Hall Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on a charge of second-degree murder for the death of somebody on a scooter they say he rammed on purpose shortly before 2:30 p.m. on Saturday at Blue Hill Avenue and Castlegate Road in Grove Hall. Read more.

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/magical-time-year-when-cones-bloom

That magical time of year when the cones burst into full bloom A roving UHub photographer paused this morning to take in the beauty of a blooming cone on Commonwealth Avenue in Allston. Read more.

New Battle of Bunker Hill erupts, this time over sweat Over in a subreddit devoted to national parks,, somebody posted a complaint today about the "Bunker Hill Monument Menace:" A man who exercises every morning by racing up and down the steps of the Bunker Hill Monument, sweat flying everywhere: Read more.

At least 37 people displaced as fire in one Geneva Avenue three decker jumps to another Boston firefighters responded to 359 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester shortly before 3 p.m. for what turned into a three-alarm fire that spread to the neighboring three decker at 355 Geneva Ave., just a few feet away. Read more.

Teen fires several shots into the air during Franklin Park festival, then when he locks eyes with a cop, fires another, police say Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old they say fired four shots into the air during the Puerto Rican Festival at Franklin Park last night - one after making eye contact with an officer who had heard the first three shots and spotted him running from bushes near the Franklin Park Zoo's giraffe...

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/three-alarm-fire-hits-vacant-savin-hill-three-decker

Three-alarm fire hits vacant Savin Hill three decker Boston firefighters responded to 132 Savin Hill Ave. around 10:30 a.m. for what turned into a three-alarm fire. Read more.