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By adamg - 4/15/14 - 6:03 pm
Turkey on Morrissey Boulevard

Good gravy, as if traffic on Morrissey Boulevard weren't already bad enough, Lorenzo Charlie marveled this afternoon.

By adamg - 4/14/14 - 8:22 am
Trying out for Deep Mass.

Eileen Murphy marveled at this dapper would-be don at the auditions for the movie version of Black Mass at the old Bayside Expo Center yesterday.

She adds: "You know it's a Southie movie when a Hollywood hopeful brings a space saver to the casting call for Black Mass!"

By adamg - 4/13/14 - 6:45 pm

Police found a man slashed in the chest around 6:35 p.m. outside 1445 Dorchester Ave. Not long after, a second man was found with a cut hand and a puncture wound to his ear behind the building. Both are expected to survive.

By adamg - 4/13/14 - 5:37 pm
Line at Bayside Expo Center

Paul Nutting Jr. spied the line of people at the old Bayside Expo Center hoping for an extra's role in the Johnny Depp biopic about everybody's favorite murdering psychopathic mobster.

By adamg - 4/13/14 - 9:28 am

The Globe's David Abel interviews the Richard family on their day before 2:50 p.m. last April 15 - and their lives since:

Abel says:

The hardest story I've ever written, especially as a new dad and someone on the finish line that day.

By adamg - 4/12/14 - 1:14 pm

Boston Police report arresting three New Yorkers on charges they passed counterfeit bills on a little shopping spree at the South Bay TJ Maxx on Thursday.

The stun gun, Oxycodone and "two large plastic bags containing a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana" allegedly found in their car also did little to endear them to the local constabulary.

Police report a clerk at the TJ Maxx store summoned a detail officer around 5:40 p.m. on Thursday to check out what appeared to be a counterfeit bill.

By adamg - 4/12/14 - 8:45 am

Around 1:30 a.m. at 38 Julian St., per Stanley Staco, who reports one of two men involved in the fight had his forehead cut.

By adamg - 4/11/14 - 8:24 am

Dorchester residents will gather on Tuesday at 7 p.m. to remember those lost in the Marathon violence.

By adamg - 4/10/14 - 11:46 am

Codman Square Update 04 09 14

Rev. Bruce Wall was on BNN's "Codman Square Update" yesterday and discussed the whole Keolis invoice thing, says a) his name was only on the invoice because he was head of a community group aimed at promoting diversity in commuter-rail hiring but that he had nothing to do with its creation or delivery - that's Eugene Rivers's doing - but that b)

By adamg - 4/10/14 - 8:19 am

Charles Sammon, 37, of West Pittston, PA., was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison yesterday for a scheme in which he collected fees at closings for triple-decker units in Dorchester, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain involving buyers who then promptly defaulted, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports.

By adamg - 4/9/14 - 4:29 pm

The Dorchester Reporter informs us that the detail cop outside the mayor's house on Tuttle Street in Dorchester noticed a suspicious guy skulking around down the street the other morning - turned out he had what police say were stolen goods.

And, yes, not long after the detail was lifted from Chesterfield Road in Readville, Angela Menino's rental vehicle was stolen from outside her and Tom's home.

By adamg - 4/8/14 - 6:11 am

The homicide unit and the arson squad are investigating what exactly killed a person whose body was found inside a burning car shortly before 4 a.m. at Davitt Street and Savin Hill Avenue, according to Stanley Staco and Boston EMS Incidents.

Ed. note: I've closed the comments on this post. A lot of things were said about the dead man that may or may not be true, but which probably aren't appropriate to post about somebody who seems to have died in a tragic accident, rather than some criminal activity.

By adamg - 4/6/14 - 4:23 pm

Boston Police report arresting two teens around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday on charges they robbed two women on Dorchester Avenue and shot at a man who tried chasing them afterwards.

By adamg - 4/4/14 - 9:40 pm

Transit Police are investigating an incident at the Ashmont Red Line station that included both gunfire and a person stabbed to the chest around 9 p.m. Brian D'Amico Brian D'Amico reports.

Police initially responded to Ashmont on reports of gunfire at the Mattapan trolley platform, but not long after, somebody walked into Carney Hospital with a stab wound to the chest.

Police shut the Mattapan line for the investigation; the T substituted buses for trolley service.

By adamg - 4/4/14 - 3:53 pm

Around 3:30 p.m. Suspects fled on Ditson and Josephine.

By adamg - 4/1/14 - 10:25 pm

The Dorchester Reporter provides the results for the special election to replace Carlos Henriquez in the 5th Suffolk district. Evandro Carvalho will have to defend his seat in the fall elections.

By adamg - 4/1/14 - 7:52 pm

A concerned citizen reports:

Wild Turkey dodging traffic and dogs on Savin Hill Ave for 2nd straight day. Someone is going to crash trying to avoid it.

Ed. note: At least it's not attacking people.

By adamg - 4/1/14 - 1:45 pm

Police say it wasn't the fact that a doorman at Cafe 1221 on Dorchester Avenue had an apparently drunken, angry patron restrained on the sidewalk that bothered them. It was, they say, the blood pouring out of several gashes on his face and head, which suggested to them that more than simple restraint had been applied to the man on the night of Nov. 24.

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday what action, if any, to take over the incident, which restaurant managers say started when a regular customer, who had been in the restaurant for 90 minutes to 2 hours, got up to go outside for a smoke break.

By adamg - 3/30/14 - 4:08 pm
Hamilton Hardware

Hamilton Hardware on Bowdoin Street is going out of business, two years after it celebrated its 90th anniversary.

H/t Bill.

By adamg - 3/30/14 - 12:56 pm

William Holbrook asks:

Can anyone recommend a good locksmith? Ideally near Dorchester.

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