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By adamg - 11/15/14 - 3:51 pm

Transit Police report a woman, apparently in her 20s, fell on the inbound tracks around 3:15 p.m., just as a train was entering the station.

Boston Fire Department personnel extricated the victim and she was transported to a local area hospital with NON life threatening injuries.

Boston EMS Incidents reports she was alert and conscious as firefighters worked to get her out.

By adamg - 11/15/14 - 7:30 am

State Police report a water-main break has flooded I-93 south and that traffic is being diverted at Mass. Ave. The problem is three feet of water near South Bay.

This is what the Expressway looks like when everybody has to get off at Mass. Ave.

By adamg - 11/14/14 - 2:22 pm

A mother got out of her car at the Brockton Shaw's today and a woman whom she knew jumped in and drove off - with the woman's baby still strapped in the back seat. The mother's cell phone was also still in the car and police were able to track it to Roxbury, where, around 2:15 p.m. at Blue Hill Avenue and Dudley Street, Boston Police officers spotted the car and stopped it.

Baby appeared fine, but EMTs were requested to check. Animal control was also requested, to check on an English bulldog also found in the car. The driver was taken into custody.

By adamg - 11/13/14 - 12:09 pm

Transit Police report they are looking for a man on a moped they say pointed an apparent gun at the driver of a 41 bus at Dudley Street and Blue Hill Avenue the afternoon of Oct. 30.

By massmarrier - 11/12/14 - 3:40 pm

Apparently the Gov. wasn't kidding. Commuter rail has published the pending weekend service on the Fairmount (Purple/Indigo) Line for the first time ever.

Hyde Park to South Station locals have fought for this for years. I'll be on the first Saturday morning, Nov. 29th train and head to the Haymarket.

Basically, it's hourly service and in some ways better than the existing five-day sked. The last train from South Station will leave at 10:58PM.

By adamg - 11/9/14 - 3:23 pm

Boston Police report that when officers on routine patrol at Walnut Park and Walnut Avenue in Roxbury last night saw a car pass them at a high rate of speed, they fed the car's plate number into a database and found it was stolen - so they turned on their blues and went in pursuit:

By adamg - 11/9/14 - 2:42 pm
Dead street tree in Roxbury

Who goes around cutting down street trees? Well, besides the Brighton tree ninja, that is. A concerned citizen reports from Moreland Street in Roxbury today:

Last night someone used a saw to cut down the street tree.

By adamg - 11/8/14 - 11:24 am

Yes examines the growth of urban farms - and the co-ops and companies being built around them in Roxbury and Dorchester:

From a community land trust that preserves land for growing, to kitchens and retailers who buy and sell locally grown food, to a new waste management co-op that will return compost to the land, a crop of new businesses and nonprofits are building an integrated food economy. It's about local people keeping the wealth of their land and labor in the community.

“We don’t need big corporations like Walmart to come in and save us," Lloyd said. "We have homegrown solutions right here.”

By adamg - 11/6/14 - 8:01 am

Jeff Rubin, whose family was one of the last Jewish families to leave the area along Blue Hill Avenue in 1970, reports on a diaspora reunited in a Facebook group:

Jews are famous for their exiles and the Dorchester-Mattapan dispersion is just another example. Thanks to the Facebook page we can experience the lost culture of that neighborhood once again, enjoy the friendships, and find some closure for this formative chapter of our lives.

By adamg - 11/4/14 - 3:57 pm

Around 3:50 p.m. at Homestead Street and Humboldt Avenue.

By adamg - 11/1/14 - 9:13 am
Shervonne Tucker

Victim identified as Shervonne Tucker.

Boston Police report a woman found shot at 18 Lattimore Ct. around 5:22 a.m. was taken to Boston Medical Center, where she died.

By adamg - 10/26/14 - 8:53 am

Around 3:40 a.m., Boston EMS Incidents reports.

By adamg - 10/26/14 - 7:50 am

Around 7:35 a.m. at Blue Hill Avenue and Ingleside. Both victims expected to survive.

By adamg - 10/24/14 - 4:46 pm

A man earned a five-year prison term today for an incident last year in which he tried to end an argument by smacking his opponent with a gun and then trying to shoot him only to have his victim whack him in the head with a cane.

William Rivera, 44, of Mattapan, was convicted today of unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawfully carrying a loaded firearm, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, assault with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for an incident on July 21, 2013, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

By adamg - 10/24/14 - 8:40 am

Boston Police report they are looking for a man in connection with an incident Wednesday afternoon at a bus stop at Warren and Moreland streets in Roxbury.

Around 2:50 p.m., policey say, a 14-year-old girl standing at the bus stop was approached by a guy who'd gotten out of a blue Infiniti:

The male suspect asked the victim to get into his car and even attempted to pull the victim into his vehicle. The victim states she was able to avoid the suspect and flee the area.

By adamg - 10/17/14 - 7:52 am

WBZ reports on the shooting early this morning at 1033 Mass. Ave.

By adamg - 10/16/14 - 11:42 am

Around 11:20 a.m., police shut the Mass. Ave. Orange Line stop, stopped train service and blocked traffic on Mass. Ave. after somebody started vomiting on the platform.

The station and street were re-opened about 15 minutes later - and the person transported to a local hospital - after first responders determined she did not have Ebola.

Boston EMS Incidents reports EMTs rushed to the station on a report of "an external hemorrhage."

By adamg - 10/14/14 - 6:42 pm
Fallen tree on Massachusetts Avenue in the South End

Just call it treelock: Boston shows us the tree that discovered gravity early this evening on Mass. Ave. northbound near Tremont Street.

By adamg - 10/14/14 - 1:38 pm

Paperwork issues and questions about a new state law that granted Boston 25 new liquor licenses this year have held up decisions on requests from five restaurants seeking some of the new licenses, along with a member who missed one set of hearings. However, board Chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer said she expects the board to resolve the issues and vote on the applications within a couple weeks.

By adamg - 10/12/14 - 11:29 pm

Boston Police report Santo Alcadio Bernabel, 69, of Hazelton, PA, suffered multiple stab wounds at 104 Winthrop St. Friday night and that they and Boston Fire investigators are now looking at whether the five-alarm fire was set.

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