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By adamg - 6/15/15 - 8:36 am

Community members are organizing a peace rally and march tomorrow to the three sites in Dorchester and Mattapan where young people recently lost their lives. Read more.

By adamg - 6/13/15 - 5:47 pm

Boston Police report arresting two teens, 14 and 16, on charges they shot Jonathan Dos Santos to death on Fuller Street on Wednesday. Read more.

By adamg - 6/13/15 - 9:03 am

Shortly after 12:30 a.m. at 28 York St., Stanley Staco reports.

By adamg - 6/12/15 - 6:36 pm

Boston Police report officers responding to a report of gunfire arrived at 21 Dacia St around 3:25 a.m. in time to see a man "attempting to rack a black firearm as he fled the scene." Read more.

By adamg - 6/11/15 - 10:38 pm

Jason Grover reports the driver of this car thought he'd come under fire this evening and was so shook up, he crashed his car at Columbia Road and Hamlet Street. In fact, it was fireworks, not gunfire, Grover - who said he got a whiff of that distinctive fireworks smell - says:

There were a series of sharp cracks that could have been mistaken for gunshots then our building shook.

By adamg - 6/11/15 - 3:05 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports Boston 2024 wants to shift tennis from its original location at Harvard to Harambee Park, conveniently located near a Fairmount Line stop.

By adamg - 6/11/15 - 10:28 am

The Herald interviews the father and other relatives of Jonathan Dos Santos, the teen shot to death as he rode a bike on Fuller Street last night.

By adamg - 6/10/15 - 8:31 pm

Fuller Street scene. Photo by Gavin Schoch.

While riding a bicycle shortly after 8 p.m. in the area of 128 Fuller, near Washington Street, Stanley Staco reports. Boston Police report the 16-year-old died and that they are looking for two suspects: "both black males in their late teens or early twenties, wearing green hoodies who fled the area on foot on Washington Street towards Mora Street."

By adamg - 6/10/15 - 5:32 pm

Around 5:20 p.m. at Milton Avenue and Armandine Street.

By adamg - 6/7/15 - 4:35 pm
Boston Yeti at the Dorchester Day parade

Even the Boston Yeti made an appearance - after first shaving some fur for the summertime.

Marchers in the annual parade had bright skies, but not absurdly warm or humid conditions this year. Still, imagine marching 4+ miles dressed like this: Read more.

By adamg - 6/4/15 - 10:35 pm
Seized dirt bikes in Dorchester

Seized bikes. Photo by BPD.

Boston Police report officers seized 22 motorcycles, dirt bikes and scooters and one ATV on Tuesday on Lincoln Street in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 6/4/15 - 9:00 am
Proposed DotBlock

Architect's rendering: Glover's Corner view.

Architects for developer Demetrios Dasco have released renderings of his proposed DotBlock, which would replace a series of low-slung storefronts and industrial buildings at Dorchester Avenue and Hancock Street with 384 apartments, 60,000 square feet of retail space, a 450-car garage and a large pedestrian walkway parallel to Dot. Ave.

The renderings are in a filing with the BRA (42M PDF file) for what is so far the largest of a growing number of projects proposed for Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 6/2/15 - 6:19 pm

The scene on Hancock Street. Photo by Necee.

Stanley Staco reports a man was stabbed outside 150 Hancock St. around 5:30 p.m. - not long after somebody was robbed of an iPhone on the street by crooks smart enough to insist he turn off the phone's tracking software first. The stabbing victim is 17 and lives in Hyde Park.

By adamg - 6/2/15 - 10:32 am

Transit Police report arresting a Wrentham man on charges he responded to requests from other Red Line riders to stop being obnoxious by doubling down and dropping trou. Read more.

By adamg - 5/29/15 - 10:29 pm

A rollover shortly before 10 p.m. near the Neponset exit southbound brought ambulances racing to the scene and quickly backed traffic up to Chinatown.

State Police reported at 10:11 p.m. that only one lane southbound was open - and that the left lane northbound was shut.

By adamg - 5/29/15 - 9:55 pm
Dirt bikes being hauled away

Photo by BPD.

Boston Police report seizing several scooters and dirt bikes at 52 Stonehurst St. in Dorchester this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 5/29/15 - 11:35 am

The Dorchester Reporter covered last night's meeting between city and police officials and Bowdoin Street residents.

By adamg - 5/28/15 - 9:26 pm
White Ford Fusion sought for shooting incident

Boston Police have released two surveillance photos of a car they say may be connected to a Bowdoin Street shooting that sent a boy and a man to the hospital Sunday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 5/27/15 - 1:27 pm

Boston Police report they are looking for "a black male, approximately 14 - 18 years of age, about 5'8" tall, heavy set, wearing a red hooded sweat shirt, white shorts, and white sneakers" for Sunday's gunfire that struck a little kid riding a bicycle on Bowdoin Street and grazed an adult..

The Globe, meanwhile, posts a copy of surveillance video showing Divan Silva being shot.

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