Charlestown Video and Articles

Woman wins Super Bowl tickets in raffle

02 Feb 2012

…ticket online. She says she’s never won anything, but her luck changed when she won two tickets to the Super Bowl. The Charlestown woman also gets hotel accommodations and tickets to a number of events leading up to the game. Spaulding Rehabilitation Network… ...

Man jailed for botched robberies

30 Jan 2012

BOSTON – A Charlestown robbery suspect admitted Wednesday to a string of robberies from late 2010 to spring 2011. ...

We're Talking About: Korean War Memorial

19 Jan 2012

A house passed supplementary budget on Wednesday afternoon which is giving Korean War Veterans Memorial in Charlestown $10,000 for maintenance. ...

House restores War Memorial funding

18 Jan 2012

…The House of Representatives passed a supplemental budget Wednesday afternoon giving the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Charlestown $10,000 for maintenance. It is welcome news to Korean War veterans Lou Pelosi and Joe McCallion, especially since the… ...

Overnight shooting in Charlestown

05 Jan 2012

CHARLESTOWN – Boston police are investigating a shooting in Charlestown that sent one person to the hospital. The shooting happened overnight at 2 Carney Court. A victim with two gunshot wounds was taken to the hospital. Their condition is unknown. ...

Rupert Murdoch Joins Twitter

01 Jan 2012

…secretary Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton -- who also founded the New York Post, later acquired by News Corp. -- was born in Charlestown, the capital of Nevis, in the 1750s. When not on Twitter, the 80-year-old media mogul was having a "great time… ...

Lawmakers snub official war memorial

18 Dec 2011

…about the state's official Korean War Veterans Memorial in Charlestown. Lou Pelosi, 83, is a decorated Korean War veteran with…
…are not forgetting the need to maintain this facility in Charlestown,” said O’Flaherty. “Why give funding to some memorials… ...

Occupy Boston marches at rush hour

17 Nov 2011

BOSTON - Protesters from the Occupy Boston movement participated in a national day of protest with a march from the Dewey Square encampment to the Charlestown Bridge Thursday afternoon. ...

Over 100 from Occupy Boston arrested

11 Oct 2011

…slogans like "Fund education, not corporations" and "We got sold out. Rich got bailed out. They later marched to a Charlestown bridge near the city's North End neighborhood hoping to hang a banner. Police blocked the bridge, which was closed for… ...

BPD asks Occupy Boston to leave park

10 Oct 2011

…Rose Kennedy Greenway that recently underwent $150,000 in renovations. Occupy Boston made the move during a march to a Charlestown bridge near the city's North End neighborhood hoping to hang a banner. Police blocked the bridge, which was closed for… ...

Occupy Boston continues to protest

10 Oct 2011

…take part today. Local college students are supposed to march thru downtown at 1:30 p.m. and hundreds of people with The Massuniting Coalition, plan to march from Dewey Sq to the Charlestown Bridge at 3 p.m. this afternoon. ...

List of closed Friendly's Locations

05 Oct 2011

…Acton MA Pleasant St. Attleboro MA Boston Rd. Billerica MA Broad St. Bridgewater MA Belmont St. Brockton MA Austin St. Charlestown MA East St. Chicopee MA Providence Pike Dedham MA John Fitch Plaza Fitchburg MA Central St. Foxboro MA Federal St. Greenfield… ...

Howie Long

08 Sep 2011

Howie Long grew up in Charlestown, played high school football in Milford, and went on to become…
…night as he was honored as the first Hometown Hall of Famer in Charlestown. Howie stopped by FOX 25 Morning News to tell us what the honor… ...

Howie Long drops in

07 Sep 2011

We had a surprise guest drop by the Assignment Desk this morning: Charlestown native and Hall-of-Famer Howie Long! ...

Woman robbed, attacked in Somerville

23 Aug 2011

…away, then threw her to the ground. He then took off running. The victim's iPhone was tracked to a housing project in Charlestown, but the suspect was not located. The suspect is described as a white male in his mid-twenties, between 5'7" and… ...

What’s going on: Things to do

18 Aug 2011

…Meagher. Free Friday's tomorrow Boston Harbor Islands - Boston Children's Museum - Easton USS Constitution Museum - Charlestown Basketball Hall of Fame - Springfield MARSHFIELD FAIR The Marshfield Fair is a traditional, American country fair that has… ...

Suspect in fatal home invasion in court

15 Aug 2011

…scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Middlesex Superior Court on a variety of charges including murder. Authorities say the Charlestown man was one of two people who forced their way into a Medford home in February intending to rob the occupants of money and… ...

Traffic alerts for I-93 this weekend

05 Aug 2011

…to Exit 34 (Route 28 North). •All of the entrance and exit ramps on I-93 North between Exit 28 (Sullivan Square/ Charlestown) and Exit 34 (Route 28 North/Main Street) will remain open, with the exception of the entrance ramp from Routes 28… ...