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By adamg - 3/18/24 - 10:07 pm

A Boston Police officer wearing a ballistic vest was shot outside 80 Esmond St. around 9:45 p.m., a couple minutes after he arrived with other officers to investigate a report of a man skulking around with a gun. Read more.

By adamg - 3/18/24 - 3:14 pm

IBEW Local 103 in Dorchester today endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for re-election in November, calling them the head of the "most pro-union administration in our nation's history." Read more.

By adamg - 3/17/24 - 1:59 pm

Streetsblog Mass gets the scoop that the MBTA and Keolis are going to try to get battery-operated trains running on the Fairmount Line within 3 1/2 years in a pilot aimed at increasing the frequency of trains, shorten trip times and replace some antiquated old diesel-powered trains. Read more.

By adamg - 3/16/24 - 10:23 am

Boston Police report arresting a Somerville man they say proved unable to avoid capture even after speeding away from a traffic stop, abandoning his car and then running away - leaving behind the loaded gun, fentanyl, crack and regular old cocaine he tried to ditch Thursday evening. Read more.

By adamg - 3/15/24 - 9:23 am

Boston firefighters responded shortly before 8:45 a.m. to 25-27 Forest St. in Roxbury for what turned into a two-alarm fire.

The department reports no injuries. Four residents and a bird were displaced, the department says.

By adamg - 3/14/24 - 1:17 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the victory of a resident of Harvard Street in Dorchester to keep ownership of her backyard - which she had thought was hers and which she maintained from the day she bought her house in 2010 from a family that had fenced off and maintained the land since 1978, to fend off a local developer who said the land was his.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 11:19 am

A Dorchester man was ordered held in lieu of $1,000 bail after his arraignment on kidnapping and unarmed-robbery charges related to a hookup he allegedly arranged via Grindr, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 3/12/24 - 4:36 pm
Schematic of old convent building and extension behind it by Context

Schematic of old convent building and extension behind it by Context.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to rehab the former St. Matthew convent at 43-45 Stanton St. in Dorchester and add a four-story addition in its rear to create 14 condos. Read more.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 4:58 pm

A man was sliced in the arm and chest on Thetford Avenue at Evans Street shortly before 2:40 p.m., then ran all the way down to Washington Street - after accepting some towels from a utility worker - before police found him. Injuries not considered life threatening.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 4:53 pm

The bus driver suffered leg and hip pain in the crash at Wentworth Street and Claridge Terrace off Norfolk Street around 4:40 p.m. One child was also transported to the hospital for observation. Police summoned ISD to check the house's structural integrity.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 11:14 am

A federal judge last week sentenced Fernando Bost, 32, to 8 1/2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to robbing the RJ Smoke and Convenience Store at 844 Blue Hill Ave. in Dorchester on March 29, 2023 - just 35 minutes after he'd held up a store in Brockton. Read more.

By adamg - 3/8/24 - 3:50 pm

The National Weather Service has issued coastal-flood watches for the entire Massachusetts coast for Sunday morning and afternoon, because of Yet Another Rain Storm that could mean 1 to 2 feet of flooding. Read more.

By adamg - 3/8/24 - 12:55 pm

The Boston Licensing Board voted yesterday to suspend the license of the Dublin Pub, 7 Stoughton St. in Dorchester, for one day over the way a patron was sliced with a machete last August - but then voted to hold the punishment in abeyance until the end of August to give the bar a chance to prove it's taking steps to keep it from happening again. Read more.

By adamg - 3/7/24 - 12:57 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge today declared Laurette LeRouge, 19, competent to stand trial on charges she beat the principal at the Henderson K-12 Inclusion School into unconsciousness in 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 3/6/24 - 10:59 am

A federal judge this week sentenced a member of Dorchester's Ashmont Street gang to seven years in federal prison after he admitted that he was in possession of a gun and ammunition he shouldn't have been since he was on parole for an earlier gun-running sentence - as well as being in possession of saleable quantities of cocaine. Read more.

By adamg - 3/6/24 - 9:12 am

Republicans in the First Suffolk district yesterday voted to keep their incumbent Republican State Committeewoman, Elizabeth Hinds-Ferrick, rather than put a Nazi into office. Read more.

By adamg - 3/4/24 - 5:52 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Mary Fox, 42, of second-degree murder for the stabbing death of Michael Dezrick in Clifford Playground near Massachusetts Avenue and Shirley Street on Aug. 3, 2020, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 3/3/24 - 2:05 pm
Bowdoin Street fire, photo by BFD

The Boston Fire Department reports a three-alarm fire at 418 Bowdoin St. displaced one resident and sent one firefighter to the hospital after it broke out around 6 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 3/2/24 - 11:58 am

The Dorchester Reporter talks to people with reservations about the $44-million project, which would include new center bus lanes.

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 2:39 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man they say kept taking money from people interested in renting a room in Dorchester he had no intention of actually renting. Read more.

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