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Sometimes the best sunrises really are just before a storm
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Photo by Handmaid.

A sign of things to come "Restoring the fabric of our city," CopleyScott17 says of the banner wrapped around the new Citgo Sign platform, which shows us what the sign will look like, in case we've forgotten after these long, long weeks. See larger.

East Boston still life: What are the thousand words behind this picture?

Photo by Rob Adams

East Boston still life They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but one wonders what the thousand words are behind this scene at an East Boston bus stop that Rob Adams captured the other day. See larger.

Alleged Frog Pond Meta-perv faces five dozen more charges for images found on his phone The convicted s*x offender already behind bars awaiting trial on charges he used camera-enhanced glasses to video children getting changed at the Frog Pond last month was arraigned today on 69 new counts related to images and videos found on his phone, court records show. Read more.

Mr. Culpepper goes to Washington - to press for extending the Orange Line down Blue Hill Avenue
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/mr-culpepper-goes-washington-press-extending-orange-line-down-blue

Two teens charged with trying to steal some of the scooters police have been seizing of late
https://www.universalhub.com/crime/2026/two-teens-charged-trying-steal-some-scooters-police-have-been

DA moves to seize $81,000 and several iPhones, one purple with a floral case, seized at alleged Brighton brothel The Suffolk County District Attorney's office yesterday began the process to seize money and iPhones that Boston officers and FBI agents confiscated when they raided an alleged brothel being run out of two condos at the Stadia 50 building on Hichborn Street in Brighton. Read more.

Court tells Marshfield the state isn't oppressing it by requiring it to zone some land for multifamily housing The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a state law intended to gradually increase the amount of multifamily housing in towns served by the MBTA is not an illegal "unfunded local mandate," is not an affront to the state's Declaration of Rights and doesn't conflict with other state zoning require...

Landlord spares no vowels in broken-lease suit against shuttered WNDR downtown The landlord for the failed WNDR "museum" in Downtown Crossing today sued the place and its Chicago owner for at least $2.8 million in back rent and damages over the way it abruptly closed after skipping two rent payments - with nearly a year left on its lease. Read more.

Eversource, Maine utility planning $2-billion project to bring new wind power down to Massachusetts once windmill-fearing president is out of office ISO-New England, which oversees the region's electrical grid, reports it's selected a $2.2-billion proposal by Eversource and Central Maine Power to expand and upgrade high-tension wires in a project that assumes large numbers of wind turbines will be build in northern Maine. Read more.