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By adamg - 1/5/24 - 2:53 pm

State Police report four teens were in a stolen Hyundai Accent speeding up Morrissey Boulevard early Thursday morning when the car rolled over near the UMass entrance. Read more.

By adamg - 1/4/24 - 12:27 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today rejected a request from Cristian Market, 411 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall, to add beer to its inventory, because of overwhelming opposition from nearby residents about the already easy access to beer at six other stores within a half mile. Read more.

By adamg - 1/4/24 - 9:36 am

State Police report two people died and two more were injured - one critically - in a rollover crash shortly after 3:15 a.m. on Morrissey Boulevard northbound, near the UMass entrance, in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 1/1/24 - 10:09 pm

Updated, 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

A fight between two women behind 27 Washington St. in Dorchester ended around 8:50 p.m. when a man shot one of the combatants. Read more.

By adamg - 1/1/24 - 9:15 pm

Mattapan Line riders had to take a bus for most of the day because of a cavalcade of trolley problems today. WCVB reports that when a trolley died at Butler this morning, the T sent out another trolley to try to push it to the Mattapan yard. But then that trolley died. So the T sent out a third trolley to push the two newly deceased trolleys down the short line. It died, too.

By adamg - 1/1/24 - 9:56 am

Victim identified as Nilton Fernandes, 24, of Dorchester.

Boston Police report a man was found shot to death outside 34 High St. in Dorchester at 5:28 a.m.

The man, pronounced dead at the scene, is Boston's first murder victim this year.

By adamg - 12/31/23 - 9:04 pm

Boston Police report arresting two men from the South Shore on charges they fatally shot Curtis Effee, 41, at 417 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester early Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/30/23 - 11:33 am

Victim identified at Curtis Effee, 41.

Boston Police report a man was shot at 417 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester around 12:50 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 12/24/23 - 10:04 pm

Police found a man shot in the right knee on Ripley Road near Harvard Street in Roxbury shortly after 9:50 p.m. Injury not considered life-threatening.

By adamg - 12/23/23 - 1:05 pm
Chicken on the grass, alas

A concerned citizen filed a 311 report about a chicken, possibly injured, by the spray pad at Neponset Park off Hill Top Street in Dorchester this morning.

By adamg - 12/22/23 - 9:55 am
Firefighters at 1644 Dorchester Ave. fire

Boston firefighters responded to 1644 Dorchester Ave. shortly before 7:30 a.m. on Thursday for a fire that heavily damaged the second and third floors of an eight-unit residential building under construction. No injuries reported.

The Zoning Board of Appeal approved replacing a house on the site with the new building in May, 2022.

By adamg - 12/21/23 - 1:27 pm

Boston Police report they will seek criminal charges against a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old they say approached a group of "elderly Christmas carolers" from behind on Johnston Road in Dorchester and punched two of them in the back of the head several times, around 3 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/19/23 - 12:32 pm
Fake ledger

Bogus ledger purporting to show some development expenses, via FBI.

A federal judge yesterday sentenced Edwin Tavarez, 48, of Garfield, NJ to 18 months in prison for the way he got a longtime acquaintance in the old neighborhood to pay him more than $1.5 million over six years for a condo-development deal that never existed to feed a gambling addiction that included frequent trips to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 9:54 am

Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury woman on charges she stabbed four people at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 240 Mt. Vernon St. in Dorchester around 4:20 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 3:25 pm

The city has organized a parade for the Dorchester Elite Eagles 14U football team and the Boston Lady Raiders that starts at 2 p.m. tomorrow at TechBoston Academy. Read more.

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 10:30 am
Photos of suspect

Photos of suspect via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say was part of a duo on scooters who held up a 14-year-old at gunpoint outside Robin Hood Street in Dorchester, around 5 p.m. on Oct. 25. Read more.

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 9:55 am

A Cincinnati staffing agency that provides temp nurses to hospitals has sued Steward Health Care Systems, which operates St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton and Carney Hospital in Dorchester, for the money it says the hospital system stopped paying for all of the health-care professionals funneled to Steward hospitals following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more.

By adamg - 12/14/23 - 6:03 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports on the foamy marriage of Dorchester Brewing Co. and Aeronaut Brewing.

By adamg - 12/13/23 - 2:12 pm
De Barros

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board votes tomorrow on whether to let Jean-Luc De Barros convert his Plateau Communications shop at 251 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester into Boston Plateau Shawarma, where he promised to serve the Middle Eastern thin-sliced meat and chicken "slow cooked to perfection." Read more.

By adamg - 12/11/23 - 1:44 pm
Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road in 1949

On April 24, 1949, an employee of the Boston Transportation Department took this shot of Blue Hill Avenue outbound at Columbia Road.

Note the trolleys on both roads (the reason both have paved medians -that's where the trolleys used to go) and compare to today's view: Read more.

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