News: Local: December 2008 Archives

"We made room," the MBTA is proclaiming in advertising for its brand new seatless car approach to subway travel. Boston's transportation system will take out seats in Red Line train cars, seemingly with the thought process that riders are so content with the cattle car approach to rush-hour commuting that cramming more people into the T each day will make people even happier. One would never want to be guilty of saying, "Not on my T line," but at the same point, it could be argued that Red Line passengers are getting the short......

-- Boston police may have a solved a 24-year-old murder. Today, they arrested Sultan Omar Chezulu, a 60-year-old Atlanta man in connection with the 1984 murder of 18-year-old Roxbury girl Elsie "Yolanda" Hernandez, who was found strangled to death. [BPDNews] -- Yesterday, Boston police arrested two in connection with a shooting at Codman Square in Dorchester. The victim was a 19-year-old man who suffered life-threatening injuries. The suspects arrested were a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl accomplice. [BPDNews] -- Last night, Boston police arrested four kids who allegedly held up a boy......