East-Boston News

Of all the candidates vying for the State Housea s corner office next year, therea s one gubernatorial candidate who, if elected, would be standing up for the average Joe.

A Mattapan man was arrested on a default warrant early Wednesday morning on Randolph Street after he allegedly swiped a gold chain, worth $1,400, from an "associate" this past April.

Victor Mason may not have thrown a Molotov cocktail, but he admitted today that he is just as culpable as the man who did.

In July he officially became the longest serving mayor in the history of Boston.

A Boston police officer who was fatally shot three decades ago was honored in a ceremony today at the busy East Boston street corner where he was attacked.

The voices against casino gambling are gathering their forces. Like most of those who stand against progress in this litigious world, they are gathering studies, studies on top of studies, the one thousand reasons a casino cannot possibly thrive or even exist without ruining the East Boston community.

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.

A US Airways mechanic is accused of stealing from planes that were sitting overnight at Logan Airport.

Tomas Gonzalez. Doug Bennett. Tito Jackson. No surprise if their names are new to you.

A slightly scaled down version of the East Boston Community Development Corporationa s affordable rental project at 170 Maverick Street was approved by Bostona s Zoning Board of Appeals last Tuesday.

Air Force One landed in East Boston at exactly 11:21 Friday morning. The blue and white gleaming big bird shone in the morning light.

As hundreds of East Bostonians lined up outside the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center over the weekend to receive their annual seasonal flu shot, there was a lot of talk and questions in the line about when the state will start dolling out the highly anticipated H1N1 vaccine.

I headed down to the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center's free flu clinic Saturday and stood in line with hundreds of residents from Chelsea, Revere, Winthrop and, of course, East Boston.

Suffolk Downs chief operating officer Chip Tuttle was among those pitching destination casinos and video lottery terminals at racetracks during a heated hearing at the Massachusetts statehouse on Thursday.

FELIX G. ARROYO Age: 30. Neighborhood: Jamaica Plain. Occupation: field director for universal health care campaign.

But this is a different Boston, a "new Boston." Four years before he ever thought of running for an at-large council seat, Kenneally migrated across town - leaving Westie to settle in the vibrant ethnic stew that is East Boston.

District A-7 reports a man walking on Meridian Street by London Street shortly before midnight on Wednesday was held up by a man with a large knife.

District A-7 reports a delivery guy waiting for a customer to come out to get his food around 1 a.m. on Oct.

"There was a place called Pep's Diner," he recalled. "Rino's Restaurant is there now.

Police are looking for a suspect who robbed a deliveryman and stole his car in East Boston early Sunday morning.