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By adamg - 6/5/14 - 3:10 pm

Capt. John Greland at C-6 reports that around 5:55 p.m. on Tuesday, a motorist took exception, by way of his fist, to a bicyclist obeying traffic rules at Dorchester Avenue and Columbia Road.

Greland says the motorist, apparently headed straight, beeped at the bicyclist in front of him. When the bicyclist refused to move and told him the light was red, the driver got out of his car and punched the bicyclist in the face, giving him a bloody mouth and knocking him to the ground - possibly into unconsciousness - Greland says.

By adamg - 6/5/14 - 11:41 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports the tire place near the T stop has been sold to a developer.

By adamg - 6/4/14 - 4:03 pm

The Herald reports the man was stabbed on Peacevale Road outside TechBoston Academy around 12:15 p.m.

By adamg - 6/4/14 - 1:36 pm

Transit Police report two people were stabbed around 12:45 p.m. on the Ashmont platform at Shawmut, in an incident that might have started as a dispute on an Orange Line train.

Police report neither victim stuck around for police or EMTs. One was found on Leslie Street, several blocks east of Dorchester Avenue; the other on Dorchester Avenue near Welles Avenue, also several blocks from the station.

Both victims are expected to survive, police say.

By adamg - 6/2/14 - 11:30 am

Around 10 a.m. a man was carjacked at Blue Hill Ave. and Woodrow Avenue by two men with a gun, who then abandoned his car just a couple blocks away.

Not long after, Rosa's Family Market, 696 Blue Hill Ave., was held up by two men, who also had at least one gun.

By adamg - 6/2/14 - 9:48 am

The RTN Federal Credit Union branch at 1205 Adams St. was held up shortly after 9:30 a.m.

By adamg - 6/2/14 - 8:40 am

Firefighters are at 43 Winston Rd., battling a fire that broke out on the third floor shortly before 8:30 a.m.

By adamg - 6/1/14 - 6:35 pm
At the Dorchester Day parade

On the Dot Out float

Dorchester came out to celebrate itself today, with the annual parade from Lower Mills all the way up Dot. Ave. to Savin Hill.

Unlike last year's parade, at which both marchers and viewers wilted on a hot, humid day, today was perfect weather for a parade.

By adamg - 5/31/14 - 12:16 am

A train bound for Ashmont is instead bound for Valhalla after gasping its last at Savin Hill shortly after midnight. On the plus side, smoke didn't fill the first car

By adamg - 5/31/14 - 12:04 am

Boston Police report arresting two men for a robbery at gunpoint right outside the apartment from which they'd called for a pizza early Thursday.

By adamg - 5/29/14 - 7:12 am

Shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday on Bernard Street, near Talbot.

By adamg - 5/28/14 - 10:53 am

UPDATE: WHDH reports the boy, 2, has died.

Police are at 131 Columbia Rd. Dan Hausle at WHDH reports the child's condition is "not good." Ken MacLeod at WBZ reports investigators are looking at whether the boy fell from the roof or a fourth-floor window.

By adamg - 5/26/14 - 10:58 pm

The Globe reports residents around the intersection of Wendover and Quincefield streets were awoken around 5:30 a.m. by some 20 shots.

The intersection is near where Shannon Richardson was shot to death last Wednesday.

By adamg - 5/24/14 - 8:39 am

Stanley Staco reports a woman stabbed her boyfriend in the chest around around 11:30 p.m. on Friday at 10 Esmond St.

By adamg - 5/22/14 - 7:06 pm

Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby, Live on The Midnight Special 1976

The Herald reports on a campaign to get a statue in the city for Dorchester's disco diva, who, unlike the newest person to get a statue, never derided her hometown.

By adamg - 5/22/14 - 5:10 pm
Richardson

A Dorchester man was ordered held without bail today on charges he shot Shannon Richardson to death on Dudley Street yesterday afternoon.

Richardson, known to his friends as Cannon, had just turned onto Dudley from Humphreys Street around 1:25 p.m. when Peter Carvalho, 25, went up to him and fired several rounds into him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says, adding the two used to be friends.

He made it into a nearby store, where he collapsed before being rushed to Boston Medical Center and dying of his injuries.

By adamg - 5/22/14 - 4:38 pm

A homeless man was arraigned on a variety of charges this week after he allegedly went nuts on a Route 22 driver who let him ride for free after the fare machine wouldn't accept his dollar bills, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Donnell Flattes, 23, was charged with interfering with a bus driver, indecent assault and battery, possession of a Class D substance with intent to distribute, resisting arrest, and two counts each of assault and battery on a public employee and making threats to commit a crime for an incident on a bus on Talbot Avenue in Codman Square around 8 p.m. on Sunday, the DA's office says:

By adamg - 5/22/14 - 3:47 pm

A gas-main break at Dorchester Avenue and E. Cottage Street this afternoon filled the neighborhood with the smell of gas and created gridlock as the intersection got shot to let National Grid repair the pipe.

By adamg - 5/22/14 - 11:34 am

Michael Gemma, 30, faces a minimum of 15 years in federal prison following his conviction this week on charges of using force, fraud and coercion to cause a minor to engage in prostitution and transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of prostitution, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports.

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