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By adamg - 9/12/23 - 9:50 pm
King, Weber, Pepen and Ruiz

King vs. Weber, Pepen vs. Ruiz.

Voters in District 6 (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) today solidly rejected one-term incumbent and crash-plagued incumbent Kendra Lara, while voters in neighboring District 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) gave the boot to ethics-plagued incumbent Ricardo Arroyo. Read more.

By adamg - 9/12/23 - 2:50 pm
Bost in an Ice Cream hoodie

Bost in an Ice Cream hoodie, from his girlfriend's phone via the FBI.

The FBI, which teamed up with Boston Police this past spring to investigate a series of armed store robberies across the city, today arrested a man they say held up a convenience store on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester just 35 minutes after he held up a convenience store in Brockton. Read more.

By adamg - 9/11/23 - 1:45 pm

Residents in four City Council districts have preliminary elections tomorrow to narrow the fields in the November elections to two candidates each. There is no preliminary for the four citywide council seats because there are eight candidates, all of whom will battle in November. Read more.

By adamg - 9/9/23 - 4:44 pm

Shortly after 4:35 p.m. on Blue Hill Avenue between Ansel Road and Balsam Street.

By adamg - 9/9/23 - 4:30 pm
Bruce the dog

Bruce the dog got scared and ran off. Photo via State Police.

Update: Bruce found, reunited with family.

Boston and state first responders responded to the end of Southview Street in Dorchester, where a woman walking her dog suffered critical injuries when she was hit by lightning around 3:20 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 9/9/23 - 4:00 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man early this morning for shooting Mario Santos to death on Wilrose Street in Dorchester on Feb. 21. Read more.

By adamg - 9/9/23 - 3:38 pm

Victim identified as Princess Charles, 29, of Quincy.

Boston Police report a woman was shot to death at 12 Greenock St. off Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester around 5:25 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 9/7/23 - 9:46 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports that New Balance CEO and 2016 Trump backer Jim Davis, who pumped $1 million into a PAC that failed to keep Michelle Wu from getting elected mayor this week donated $150,000 to a super PAC that is trying to un-elect two of the City Council's progressive members: Kendra Lara in District 6 and Ricardo Arroyo in District 5. The group's ads in the Herald also support John FitzGerald, Frank Baker's choice, in District 3.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 4:01 pm

A former Dorchester resident now living in Quincy expected to trade 60 grams of fentanyl for four handguns from Florida yesterday but instead found himself arrested by ATF agents and Quincy Police because his trading partner had turned informant in the hopes of reducing his own sentence for his role in gun trafficking in another jurisdiction, according to court records unsealed in US District Court in Boston today. Read more.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 10:40 am
Malfunctioning gas lamp on Beacon Hill

The nerve of John Kerry living a couple blocks from this busted gas lamp.

An outraged citizen who lives in Dorchester files a 311 complaint about the 311 complaint somebody else filed about a gas lamp on Revere Street on Beacon Hill that is not working correctly: Read more.

By adamg - 9/5/23 - 5:43 pm

A dispute during a dominoes match over who knows more about the Jamaican capital of Kingston ended with one player going after the other two with a machete in the Franklin Field development in Dorchester on Aug. 25, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 9/4/23 - 5:28 pm
Firefighters making sure no hidden embers

The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that started at 37 Holiday St. in Dorchester around 3:30 p.m. spread to two neighboring houses before it was put out. Read more.

By adamg - 9/3/23 - 11:32 am

GoFundMe page.

Boston Police report a man was shot where Old Road meets Columbia Road around 11:40 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 8/31/23 - 11:27 am

The FBI today arrested former Transit Police sergeant David Finnerty, 47, of Rutland, for his alleged role in helping one of his underlings cover up the way that officer used a baton to beat a homeless man at the Ashmont T station - and then arrest the man for on a bogus charge for attacking him. Read more.

By adamg - 8/30/23 - 12:58 pm
Help wanted in IDing guy dressed in blacck hoodie and pants

Surveillance photos via BPD.

Boston Police report they are seeking help to ID a man dressed in all black in connection with Saturday morning's shootings of eight people on Talbot Avenue near Blue Hill Avenue. Read more.

By adamg - 8/30/23 - 12:36 pm

The Dorchester Reporter compiles answers to a questionnaire it send to the candidates seeking to replace Frank Baker as District 3 city councilor in the September preliminary.

By adamg - 8/29/23 - 11:23 am
Proposed resident building at Dorchester Avenue and Semont Road

Rendering by Derek Rubinoff.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the owner of the shuttered US Petroleum station at Dorchester Avenue and Semont Road in Dorchester to replace it with a four-story, 14-unit residential building with six parking spaces and ground-floor space for a restaurant. Read more.

By adamg - 8/28/23 - 8:58 am

Also see: Brawl outside Tremont Street movie theater.

Boston Police report arresting eight people, between 12 and 17, after a large fight in which some of the combatants allegedly directed their small fists of fury at officers as well, outside the movie theater Sunday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 8/27/23 - 3:01 pm

Boston Police report arresting three men and a teenager for the eight-victim gun battle just feet from the Jouvert parade up Blue Hill Avenue Saturday morning - although only two of them may have done the shooting. Read more.

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