East-Boston News Archives

Boston Herald Business Reporter Reporter Scott Van Voorhis brings 15 years of aggressive reporting to a wide range of topics that affect the Hub's business community and residents.

State Police investigators are conducting ballistics tests and awaiting state Medical Examiner findings into the death of a knife-wielding man who was fatally shot Tuesday by a police officer.

Authorities say a Lynn police officer shot and killed an East Boston man after he refused to drop a knife.

Maine lobster roll $24, Neptune Oyster THE BEST! The first thing you notice is the bun from B&R bakery, grilled to a faultless golden brown in butter.

You're the Cheeseman, and what kind of bail deal is this here, when you can go home to East Boston but not over to Fresh Cheese, on account of the easy access to LCN members, as Judge Magistrate Dein calls all ...

More Than Just the "Finest Cuts" Delivered at Local Barbershop Yesterday evening around 6:10pm, officers arrested suspects, Bobbie D. Johnson, 37, of Dorchester, and Dwayne Mills, 35, of Roslindale , and ...

Ask him if his name is Patrick. Patrick Mannion, an 18-year-old from Lynn, has just started blogging about what it's like to become a transportation security officer at everybody's favorite East Boston airport: ... via Universal Hub

Reputed New England Mafia underboss Carmen "The Cheese Man'' DiNunzio may have allegedly been caught on an FBI tape delivering a bribe to secure a Big Dig contract and threatening to throw an associate off a ... via Boston Globe

“The weight of the evidence in this case is overwhelming.”

"I thought you liked me, Howie." But I do, Cheeseman. You're the best story going right now - Carmen DiNunzio, 400 pounds, the reputed "boss" of the Mafia in Boston, under arrest for trying to sell dirt to the ... via Boston Herald

“He's not a threat. That's the bottom line”

Award-winning court and crime reporter Laurel J. Sweet has been featured in the ABC miniseries "Boston 24/7" and the 9-11 documentary motion picture "Looking For My Brother." F BI searches and phone monitoring ... via Boston Herald

Boston's iconic landmarks include a bar wher no one knows your name . . . or a flock of fowl that hasn't migrated inmore than a century. via Washington Post

The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority is stepping up the pressure on toll cheats. via WBZ TV

“As such, we hope anybody with information regarding this incident would help us in our efforts to reunite pet with pet owner.”

"I won't stop searching for him," Debbie Fitzgerald pledged of Frankie, for whose safe return she is offering a $1,000 reward, no questions asked. via Boston Herald

House speaker Sal DiMasi has put the Ethics Committee to the task of investigating the alleged threat against Rep. via Bostonist

“What we have right now is a lot of different people there. We're just dealing with getting the gas off”

Residents of a 10-unit apartment building in East Boston had to evacuate this morning after a car hit a 2-inch gas line, breaking it in two. via Boston Globe

“COLLISION1101:SUPERARTIFICIAL”

"THE 2008 DECORDOVA ANNUAL EXHIBITION," which opens at the DeCordova Museum on May 10, presents work by 12 artists/artist teams. via The Phoenix