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Boston University Police Department squad car. This week's crime logs include an intoxicated party, a person hitting turkeys with a stick and group disturbances. SYDNEY ROTH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Campus Crime Logs: March 24 — March 29

Sicheng “Chris” Che April 1, 2024
This week's crime logs include an intoxicated party, a person hitting turkeys with a stick, and group disturbances.
city hall

City experts discuss expectations for general mayoral election

Daily Free Press Staff September 23, 2021
Experts weigh in on how Campbell, Janey and Barros supporters will vote in the general election.
unite here local 26 food giveaway in downtown boston

Labor union distributes food to recently fired Nine Zero Hotel employees

Madison Mercado April 5, 2021
The hotel fired 52 employees — more than two-thirds of its staff — in March.
Boston Parks and Recreation announced Friday it plans to build a dog park in every city neighborhood. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston looks to add dog parks to every neighborhood

Isabella Abraham February 10, 2021
Residents pushed for a dog area in West Roxbury's Millennium Park. Currently, there are four official BPRD dog recreation spaces out of 24 City-recognized neighborhoods — none lie south of Dorchester.
Granary Burying Ground on Boston’s Tremont Street. The City of Boston seeks the original locations of 11 gravestones through its Historic Burying Grounds Initiative. COURTESY OF WALLY GOBETZ VIA FLICKR

City investigates sites for displaced gravestones

Claire Williams October 20, 2020
Many of the gravestones date back to the 1600s and 1700s, and may have been repurposed as building materials or removed for maintenance.
A new Taco Bell location opened on Friday in Boston’s Downtown Crossing. DAPHNE ANG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

New Taco Bell opens in Downtown Crossing, first location in downtown

Anna Facciola September 19, 2019
Previously, Boston residents were forced to travel to Cambridge or West Roxbury to get their fill of the iconic fast food.
For many incoming freshmen, FYSOP is a head-start on getting to know BU and the city of Boston before the academic year begins. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

A beginner’s guide to FYSOP

JenRacoosin June 5, 2018
Do you keep seeing the acronym FYSOP but have no idea what it stands for? Wonder no longer — FYSOP is the First-Year Student Outreach Project, a weeklong community engagement program for first-year students, including freshmen, transfer students and, this year, students entering Boston University as part of the BU-Wheelock College merger.
EDITORIAL: It’s time to grant activists legal validation for their efforts

EDITORIAL: It’s time to grant activists legal validation for their efforts

Editors March 28, 2018
While public workers were building a gas pipeline in West Roxbury in 2016, several environmental activists stood in the way of its construction, burrowing themselves in the hollowed spaces of where the pipeline would be placed. All 13 protesters, who felt compelled to take action against a measure that would harm the environment, were arrested for civil disobedience — the standard protocol for getting in the way of public projects.
Massachusetts gun control group probes US leadership with controversial RSVP

Massachusetts gun control group probes US leadership with controversial RSVP

Ludi Wang December 6, 2017

Stop Handgun Violence — a Massachusetts based gun control group — mailed campaign flyers fashioned as invitations Friday to President Donald Trump and nearly 300 members of the U.S. Congress, urging...

Boston ranks in top 5 for most expensive rent in the nation

Laura Al Bast November 28, 2017

Rising rents and the trend of gentrification in Boston have remained steadfast, with the city ranking as the fifth most expensive place to rent in the nation, according to apartment rental platform...

Elizabeth Warren at the “Our Revolution” rally at Orpheum Theatre in March. PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DFP FILE PHOTO

Warren pledges support for Walsh in mayoral race

Xi Jin October 18, 2017

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren officially endorsed incumbent Boston Mayor Martin Walsh Sunday — with just under three weeks until Election Day. Warren said she is supporting Walsh for reelection...

The Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance co-host “Stand for All Students: #StopDeVos” Thursday evening to protest U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ visit to Harvard University. PHOTO BY ISABELLA ARTEAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts residents rally in protest of DeVos at Harvard

Sarika Ram September 29, 2017

Approximately 1,000 protestors gathered for the Stand for All Students rally outside the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics Thursday night to protest the U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy...

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