The Herald interviews a witness to yesterday's fireworks explosion in Dorchester that injured two boys.
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By adamg - 7/6/15 - 9:07 am
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that started in a car parked at 83 Devon St. spread to houses on either side around 12:30 a.m.
The fire went to two alarms. Investigators are now looking to determine how the car caught on fire.
By adamg - 7/5/15 - 5:03 pm
Boston firefighters are at 9 Gene St. battling a blaze that erupted shortly before 5 p.m.
By adamg - 7/1/15 - 9:04 pm
Shortly before 9 p.m. on Seaver near Normandy Street. Police are looking for three suspects, all black males between 25 and 30.
By adamg - 7/1/15 - 11:38 am
The Boston Fire Department reports lightning sparked a two-alarm fire at 488 Adams St. around 9:40 a.m.
The fire did an estimated $200,000 in damage. There were no injuries.
Scott Eisen posted photos from the scene.
By adamg - 6/30/15 - 12:14 pm
Boston 2024's "2.0" plan for Widett Circle calls for tearing down all the existing industrial and mass-transit facilities in the 83-acre area and turning it into 8 million square feet of office and residential use with the hope Boston gets the Olympics, but under a plan that would continue even if we don't get the games. Read more.
By adamg - 6/29/15 - 10:16 pm
Around 10:05 p.m. between Kerwin Street and Browning Avenue, just off Talbot.
By adamg - 6/29/15 - 10:15 am
Boston 2024 officials are outlining their "Bid 2.0" version of the proposed 2024 Olympics in Massachusetts. Current Boston 2024 Chairman Steve Pagliuca says the plan still calls for buying out the existing businesses in Widett Circle and building a temporary stadium there - and then turning the land after the games over to a private developer, who would build a whole new transit-oriented development with 4,000 apartments. Read more.
By adamg - 6/28/15 - 1:30 pm
Sometimes, when somebody says "One and one is ..." you need to let them finish to make sure they mean to say "one and one is two" rather than "one and one is three." The other day, I wrote about Councilor Ayanna Pressley's opposition to a request for a liquor license for a restaurant in Adams Corner in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 6/26/15 - 10:09 am
Jimmy Cawley, who spent the past eight years with WORK, Inc. of Dorchester, helping people with disabilities train for and get jobs, died overnight from the lung cancer doctors only discovered when he had a stroke a couple of months ago.
Cawley, a Grateful Dead fan who spent 20 years as a newsroom researcher at the Globe, leaves his wife Elisa and his children Christina and Kevin.
By adamg - 6/24/15 - 11:27 am
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a liquor license for a proposed restaurant at the site of a long abandoned video store in Adams Corner in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/15 - 6:03 pm
Steve Lynch (D-South Boston) went on NECN's Broadside tonight and told host Sue O'Connell that condemning the existing businesses at Widett Circle for a temporary 60,000-seat stadium is stupid and something he'll fight. Suffolk Downs might work, he says.
"I don't think you'll build a stadium for three weeks and then take it down," he said. "I really think it's a bad idea."
By adamg - 6/22/15 - 1:47 pm
The Boston Licensing Board last week gave the owner of a South End pizzeria permission to open a new place on Columbia Road, next to the Strand Theatre. Read more.
By adamg - 6/21/15 - 11:31 pm
At least four shots around 11:25 p.m. on Maxwell Street near Milton Avenue.
By adamg - 6/21/15 - 12:15 am
Around midnight on Westville Street at Boyd Street, midway between Bowdoin and Geneva. One car was hit.
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