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Firefighters search water near Granite Avenue Bridge on report of somebody climbing over bridge railing; don't find anybody

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters, including divers, responded to the Granite Avenue Bridge between Dorchester and Milton on a report of "a person climbing over the bridge railing." Read ...
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East Boston court officer helps ICE: Blocks bystander from videoing ICE grabbing somebody

MassLive reports on an incident inside East Boston Municipal Court (but not in a courtroom) Thursday morning.Court rules on photography - only the press allowed to video inside a courthouse. Note: The ...
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Massachusetts looks to do away with another blue law: The ban on Sunday hunting

The Healey administration is looking to bring the state even further into the 21st century by repealing a 200-or-so-year-old ban on Sunday hunting - and is even considering letting hunters fire away ...
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How illegal guns get to Boston: Ohio man charged with driving high-capacity guns here

An Ohio man was arrested in Boston yesterday with three guns - including a rifle and handgun with 100-bullet drums - after taking $8,500 for them from a local buyer who turned out to be working with ...
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It could soon get easier to find a cocktail or scotch on the rocks in this town

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved regulations that will let restaurants with beer and wine licenses upgrade to sell all sorts of alcohol.
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State to pour money into ConnectorCare to reduce the number of residents who might otherwise have to consider giving up health insurance due to the regime

Gov. Healey today announced plans to inject $250 million into the state's health-connector system to blunt the impact on moderate-income families of the regime's decision to end the federal subsidies ...
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High-flying Saks personal shopper who faces criminal fraud charge fires back with suit against faltering chain alleging retaliation over job offer from another retailer

Suhail Kwatra, who spent 20 years clothing some of Boston's richer denizens at the Prudential Saks, today sued the company, alleging it ginned up a fake criminal case against him and forced him to ...
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Licensing board fed up with the Draft in Allston and its owner; shuts the place indefinitely

The Boston Licensing Board voted unanimously today to shut the Draft, 32-34 Harvard Ave. in Allston, not just because of the three underage people found with drinks there one night in October but ...
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Jamaica Plain pub seeks to extend hours and to expand menu

The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to let the Jeanie Johnston Pub, 144 South St. in Jamaica Plain, stay open until 2 a.m. seven nights a week. Read more.
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BU dive open since the repeal of Prohibition gets OK to sell its liquor license to new upscale chain restaurant in the Seaport

The Boston Licensing Board today gave permission to the owner of the Dugout, 722 Commonwealth Ave., to sell his liquor license to Earl's Kitchen and Bar, a chain of upscale restaurants looking to ...
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City to let Theater District club re-open; regulators conclude woman's death on the dance floor was terrible but that club did nothing to impede first responders

The Boston Licensing Board concluded this morning that Icon, 100 Warrenton St. in the Theater District, was not responsible for what board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce  called "the awful tragedy" of a ...
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Licensing board hears two versions of the chaos inside a Theater District club where a woman fatally collapsed on a dance floor

Icon, 100 Warrenton St. in the Theater District, and family members and friends of Anastaiya Colón Morales, who collapsed there painted dramatically different pictures today of what happened as first ...