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By adamg - 9/17/24 - 8:59 pm
Update, Tuesday a.m.: The MBTA rolled out shuttle buses to replace Ashmont Red Line service after the water disrupted power to the trains.
A National Grid crew working in the street at Dorchester Avenue at Ashmont Street in Dorchester around 6 p.m., struck a Boston Water and Sewer Commission main, turning Peabody Square into an impassible lake and forcing firefighters to evacuate at least one building after they started smelling a strong odor of gas. Read more.
By adamg - 9/16/24 - 2:59 pm
Dorchester Reporter publishers Bill and Linda Dorcena Forry (she was the first Haitian-American to be elected a Massachusetts state senator) state the obvious in a city with a large Haitian community.
By adamg - 9/16/24 - 10:12 am
Boston firefighters responding to a medical call found a man stabbed in the chest and stomach at the Charles Street entrance to the Fields Corner MBTA stop in Dorchester around 8:05 p.m. on Sunday. He was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
It's the second stabbing near the station in less than a week.
By adamg - 9/15/24 - 9:14 am
Smith reports on a minivan turned sound truck roaming around the South End last night, "imploring me to vote for Roy Owens in November." Read more.
By adamg - 9/13/24 - 3:40 pm
Boston Police posted an urgent message, in big red letters today: Stop showing up at the Carney Hospital ER, because it doesn't exist anymore. Call 911 instead, because unlike Steward, they care.
By adamg - 9/13/24 - 9:20 am
WFXT reports four students from the Mason Elementary School in Roxbury and an adult were taken to local hospitals with minor injuries after a school-bus crash on Southampton Street shortly before 3 p.m. on Thursday.
By adamg - 9/11/24 - 10:33 pm
A Dorchester 17-year-old was ordered held without bail at his arraignment today on charges he participated in murdering Leudis Mejia Sanchez, 49, and injuring a second man during a home invasion at an apartment at 5 Trent St. in Dorchester on Aug. 12, according to Dorchester Municipal Court records. Read more.
By adamg - 9/11/24 - 5:18 pm
Specifically: The Prudential Tower, Center Plaza, Atlantic Wharf, 100 Causeway, 100 Federal St., 1 Lincoln St., the amphitheater at 40 Water St. and the UMass Boston Integrated Science Center.
By adamg - 9/9/24 - 7:58 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on charges he shot two men in an apartment at 5 Trent St. in Dorchester, killing one, on Aug. 12. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/24 - 12:59 pm
Boston Police report arresting a teen on various gun charges at a block party at Pleasant and Pearl streets in Dorchester shortly before 7 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 9/6/24 - 11:56 am
Boston Police report arresting the man they say shot Jashun Cooley to death on Washington Street in Dorchester on Aug. 24. Read more.
By adamg - 9/6/24 - 11:37 am
The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld the dismissal of gun charges against a Dorchester man whom police say they watched showing off guns on Snapchat via a bogus Snapchat ID because both police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office refused a lower-court order to turn over information about all the fake IDs they used to monitor suspected gang members in Snapchat videos around the time he was arrested - twice - in 2018. Read more.
By adamg - 9/5/24 - 10:33 pm
A South Boston woman faces charges that she ran over another woman in the South Bay Mall parking lot off Allstate Road shortly after 11 p.m. on Wednesday, in part based on the "red residue" police found above one of her car's rear tires, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 9/5/24 - 3:19 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports workers today carted away the howitzer that long sat outside the American Legion Old Dorchester Post 65 next to the Eire Pub, because the post was shut recently and sold to a developer planning a building aimed at people between 55 and 65. The gun is being given to a veterans post on the Cape.
By adamg - 9/3/24 - 11:24 am
Bill Walczak, who once served as president of Carney Hospital, explains - and notes that a private company stationed an ambulance at the now closed hospital over the weekend, because people who needed ER care kept driving up.
By adamg - 9/2/24 - 10:09 pm
Victim identified as Elijah Ricardo Clunie, 20, of Dorchester.
Two men were shot, one in the head, inside the Exclusive Barber Shop, 184 Washington St. in Dorchester's Four Corners neighborhood shortly before 12:55 p.m. - across the street from where another man was fatally shot last Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/30/24 - 9:37 pm
A man was shot at Ellington and Erie streets in Dorchester around 9 p.m.
Arriving police officers found shell casings but no victim. But not long after, a man arrived at a local emergency room with a fresh gunshot wound - and injuries that were not considered life threatening.
By adamg - 8/30/24 - 2:48 pm
The Dorchester Reporter visits the Dorchester Avenue institution in its final hours of being bled dry by investors.
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