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By adamg - 8/3/15 - 12:51 pm

Around 12:45 p.m. at 92 Academy Terrace in the Academy Homes project near Jackson Square. The homicide unit is on the way, due to the severity of at least one victim's injuries. At least five shots fired, by somebody who got out of a pickup, fired, then got back in the pickup, which sped away.

WBUR reports the victims were sitting in a car; a brother and a sister were the most critically injured.

By adamg - 8/3/15 - 12:30 am

Chris Lovett posted photos from Berklee College's annual Jazz at the Fort concert.

By adamg - 8/2/15 - 10:40 pm

The Globe reports the Massachusetts Historical Commission has given BPS permission to tear down the Dearborn School, which it plans to do this fall as it builds a new school on the site.

By adamg - 8/1/15 - 6:36 pm

Christine McCarthy shows the scene on Hazelwood Street, where a 5-year-old was hit.

By adamg - 8/1/15 - 6:10 pm

Around 6 p.m. at Waumbeck and Harold streets. The passenger in a car fired on two guys on scooters; hit one. The victim managed to run two blocks down Harold, but his injuries are bad enough to have the homicide unit called in, just in case. Police found the second scooter driver about 20 minutes later, with only minor scratches.

By adamg - 7/30/15 - 5:12 pm

Boston Police report drug officers conducting an investigation heard a report of shots fired near Cabot Street around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

By adamg - 7/29/15 - 9:39 pm

Around 9:15 p.m. at Townsend Street and Humboldt Avenue. Police found one victim there; the second victim showed up about 1 1/2 miles away in Dorchester.

By adamg - 7/28/15 - 10:37 pm

UPDATE: Boston Police report Grisel Sanchez, 31, was declared dead at the scene.

Shortly before 10:35 p.m. in Puddingstone Park. Because of the severity of her injuries, the homicide unit was called in.

A house across the street was hit with a bullet.

By adamg - 7/28/15 - 1:24 pm

Two men stopped on a scooter with a gun after Rahem Ramirez was shot to death on Greenville Street in Roxbury on July 2 are now charged with his murder, Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report today. Read more.

By adamg - 7/26/15 - 11:57 pm

A man and woman were charged with carjacking for an incident around 7 a.m. at Blue Hill Avenue and W. Cottage Street, Boston Police report. Read more.

By adamg - 7/25/15 - 11:52 pm

Stanley Staco reports two men were shot in the back around 3:30 p.m. on Homestead Street at Pleasanton.

By adamg - 7/25/15 - 10:03 pm

Shortly before 9:30 p.m. at Harrison Avenue and Ziegler Street, Stanley Staco reports.

By adamg - 7/21/15 - 3:30 pm

At least four rounds, around 3:20 p.m. on Fenno Street off Walnut Avenue. Somebody got out of the passenger side of a car, fired the shots, then got back in the car, which sped away.

By adamg - 7/19/15 - 1:16 pm

Shortly before 1 p.m. on Juniper Street at Cedar, by two men with a gun. Police are looking for a white, 2006 Audi A4, Mass. plates 2XM-623.

By adamg - 7/19/15 - 12:49 pm

Around 12:35 a.m. behind the Ellis School at Walnut and Westminster avenues. Described as Hispanic, thin, wearing a black top.

By adamg - 7/17/15 - 11:55 pm

Stanley Staco reports the shooting was around 8 p.m. at Dixwell Street and Columbus Avenue.

By adamg - 7/16/15 - 8:33 am
Proposed new building at Douglass Park in Roxbury

Architect's rendering of proposed new building at Douglass Park in Roxbury

Harold Brown's Hamilton Co. recently filed plans with the BRA to add to Roxbury's Douglass Park complex with a five-story, 44-unit apartment building on what is now a tree-lined green between existing buildings on Camden Street.

Meanwhile, the company recently began ripping up a parking lot at 40 Malvern St. in Allston to build a six-story, 48-unit apartment building. Read more.

By adamg - 7/15/15 - 9:52 pm

Children's Hospital this week sued a Seattle-based software company to get it to back off from claims the hospital owes $925,000 for "terminal emulator" software the hospital last used in 2004. Read more.

By adamg - 7/14/15 - 7:43 am

Stanley Staco reports a possible gun battle around 1:15 a.m. on Holborn Street sent a man to the hospital with gunshot injuries.

On July 4, two men were shot outside 12 Holborn, one fatally.he

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