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By adamg - 4/11/16 - 2:49 pm

A Dorchester man already charged with robbing several men who thought he was a woman seeking an assignation is now charged with robbing even more men like that, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 4/9/16 - 8:05 pm

Boston Police have released two photos of the suspect in a sexual attack at Ashmont and Florida streets on March 27. Read more.

By adamg - 4/9/16 - 1:19 pm
54 Sudan St.

54 Sudan St. Problem was in rear; stuff in front may just be construction debris. Photo by ViralPenguin.

One of the rear porches at 54 Sudan St. partially collapsed around 12:45 p.m. Nobody was seriously injured; ISD was summoned to take a look.

By adamg - 4/9/16 - 10:52 am

Rosa's Family Market, 696 Blue Hill Ave., around 10:45 a.m.

By adamg - 4/8/16 - 9:37 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say was the leader of a group of teens preying on taxi and Uber drivers in recent weeks. Read more.

By adamg - 4/8/16 - 4:20 pm

Great Spaces shows us the demolition of the former Ashmont Tire building across from the T stop today. Read more.

By adamg - 4/7/16 - 11:18 am

Boston Police report at least ten cars had their windows smashed and their contents rummaged through on Magnolia, Greenheys, East Cottage, Clifton, and Holden streets overnight.

By adamg - 4/5/16 - 5:33 pm

When Joseph Morrison drove into the back of an SUV stopped on Ellington Street at Blue Hill Avenue around 8:30 this morning, he tried to flee by backing up - only to plow into a minivan. Then, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges, he put his Altima back in drive and hit the SUV driver, who'd gotten out to try to stop him, knocking her to the ground and driving over her foot. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/16 - 12:37 pm

Januario Oliveira, 31, of Dorchester, was arraigned on a variety of gun charges Friday thanks to an alert resident who called 911 Thursday afternoon.

According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office: Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/16 - 7:16 am
Turkey on Appleton Street in the South End

City: Yeah, it's a turkey in the South End, so?

At least some people are taking to contacting 311 when they spot a turkey these days. A couple days ago, the city responded to a 311 report about a turkey just walking around Glide Street in Dorchester:

Turkeys are natural to the City of Boston. If there are no injuries to the turkey, just ensure to stay out of its way.

At press time, the city had yet to respond to a complaint about a wild turkey running down Appleton St in the South End.

By adamg - 4/3/16 - 8:59 am
Snow on Talbot Avenue

Yeah, about that saying ... We're supposed to get more snow tomorrow.

In the meantime, though, Steve, at least, enjoyed the view down Talbot Avenue near Blue Hill Avenue around 6 a.m.

Copyright Steve. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 4/2/16 - 10:13 am

The ACLU of Massachusetts this week asked a federal judge to order federal prosecutors and judges to stop sealing information about requests to unlock phone data - if they are, in fact, doing that. Read more.

By adamg - 4/1/16 - 3:11 pm

Boston firefighters are at 6 Monadnock St., for a third-floor fire reported around 3 p.m.

By adamg - 4/1/16 - 11:41 am

A man robbed the OneUnited Bank branch at 648 Warren St. in Grove Hall shortly before 11:30 a.m. Arriving officers spotted him not long after on Geneva Avenue near Columbia Road and, after a brief foot chase, placed him under arrest.

By adamg - 4/1/16 - 11:10 am

A Suffolk County grand jury this week indicted Hendrick Davis, 33, on a charge of holding up the Meetinghouse Bank branch at 2250 Dorchester Ave. at gunpoint on Jan. 6, the state Attorney General's office reports.

Davis allegedly made off with $2,315, prosecutors say: Read more.

By adamg - 4/1/16 - 7:26 am

Stanley Staco reports an alert Red Line worker found a partially undressed boy, about 6, near the JFK/UMass station in Dorchester around 3:30 a.m.

A car came off I-93, pulled over on Columbia Rd, child exited then car hopped back onda the highway & left.

By adamg - 3/28/16 - 9:14 pm

Boston Police report a woman walking on Ashmont Street near Florida Street around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday was approached by a guy who chatted her up, then indecently attacked her.

The man, described as Middle Eastern or Indian, 5'6" to 5'8" and about 160 lbs., was dressed all in black, and ran down Ashmont towards Dorchester Avenue.

By adamg - 3/27/16 - 9:49 pm

Cinnamngrl ran across this rafter of turkeys at Adams Street and Victory Road in Dorchester today.

By adamg - 3/27/16 - 4:48 pm
Granite Avenue bridge looking towards Dorchester

People who cross the Neponset River between Dorchester and Milton on Granite Avenue traverse a bridge that looks like, and is, a relic of the days when the Neponset River was a working river.

The nation's first railroad, built in 1826, ferried granite blocks from a Quincy quarry to a wharf on the banks on Gulliver's Brook, which is just upstream of the bridge, and from which the builders of the Bunker Hill Monument got their granite blocks.

Schooner being loaded with blocks from the Quincy railway (the three-wheeled thing is one of the "cars"- from the BPL's photo collection):

By adamg - 3/24/16 - 2:00 pm

Around 1 p.m. on Devon Street just before Columbia Road.

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