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Gerald M. Hill, who was paroled two months ago, is being held on $1 million bail after he and an unidentified accomplice allegedly stole more than $21,000 from the Boston Cab Co.

A female pedestrian was struck by a Boston city vehicle in Downtown Crossing on Wednesday.

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The huge Halloween crowds last weekend included a record 9,000 train passengers who purchased commuter rail tickets to Salem.

Share + Nov 9, 2009 7:04 pm US/Eastern Reporting Ron Sanders BELMONT 1 of 4 Dr. Astrid Desrosiers returned home from the hospital on November 9. WBZ 2 of 4 Claude Desrosiers.

Share + Nov 10, 2009 1:05 pm US/Eastern BOSTON One of the men charged with robbing a Boston cab dispatch center this week was just released from jail after spending most of his adult life in prison.

At about 9:55am, on Monday, November 9, 2009, officers from Area D-4 responded to a radio call for a person with a gun at Boston Cab Dispatch located at 60 Kilmarnock Street.

Boston city councilor is fired up over attempts by high-end condo owners to muzzle Old Ironsides' twice-daily cannon blasts, calling their complaints of excessive noise "absolutely ridiculous" and vowing to push for a city resolution to support the time-honored tradition.

A giant iPod touch billboard in Boston that found itself at the center of a political controversy has been removed without explanation.

Dollars to doughnuts, Robert H. Rines will be mainly remembered not for holding more than 800 patents, starting a law school or writing music for the stage but for his dogged pursuit of the Loch Ness monster.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be in the hospital for at least four days following knee surgery after a fall at his son's Hyde Park home Sunday night.

An argument that began at the Kells early Sunday morning spilled onto Brighton Avenue, quickly became physical and ended with the stabbing death of Gregory Phillips, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

Share + Nov 9, 2009 12:50 pm US/Eastern Boston police say a man was pistol-whipped in an cab dispatcher's office Monday morning and robbed of a "substantial amount of money." Investigators say two armed men were involved in the attack at the Boston Cab Association on Kilmarnock Street in the Fenway just before 10 a.m. The men ran out and the ...

A 24-year-old man was stabbed and killed in the area of Brighton and Harvard Avenue in Allston early Sunday.

Boston Police report a lit Molotov cocktail fizzled when it was thrown into Dorchester District Court around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Thanks to Bloggery Readers Ina and Kaitlin for the heads up, sadly I didn't get your emails in time to head over to Harvard Square this weekend to see the filming of Friday Night Lights.

On Sunday, November 8, 2009, at approximately 2:16am, a Boston Police Officer, assigned out of Area D-14 , was patrolling in the area of Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue when his attention was drawn to several people in the area.

George H. W. Bush was elected President on this day in 1988. Today is Sunday, Nov.

MassVOTE confirms one measure of the interest in this year's election in Boston: the highest turnout in a city election since 1993, when Thomas Menino won his first term as mayor.

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