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By adamg - 3/20/13 - 5:31 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester teen on charges of assault and battery on a public employee and interfering with public transportation because of an incident this afternoon on a 19 bus on Geneva Avenue.

By adamg - 3/18/13 - 7:47 am

Peter Sipe, a teacher at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester, writes about the intruder-alert drills his school now does:

By adamg - 3/16/13 - 10:15 pm

Brian D'Amico reports a man was stabbed several times in the stomach and back around 9:30 p.m. on Dorchester Avenue at Dracut Street. The suspects were described as two or three Asian males.

By adamg - 3/15/13 - 6:19 pm

A 15-year-old charged with participating in last weekend's attack on a Route 16 bus driver had bail set today at $1,000, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

The DA's office reports Dorchester District Court Magistrate Michelle Bulger set several other conditions on the Hyde Park girl, not named because of her age: She has to wear a GPS device, follow a 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew and "obey any rules set by her mother."

By adamg - 3/15/13 - 5:31 pm

Transit Police have posted surveillance video showing an irate woman spitting at a bus driver after being ordered off a bus at Ashmont for not paying her fare last Saturday. Police say she was accompanied by two small children - one of whom you can see in her arms as she launches her saliva salvo.

By adamg - 3/14/13 - 12:57 pm

Transit Police report arresting a 15-year-old female from Hyde Park today for the Route 16 attack - no name because of her age. "Transit Police detectives continue to work toward identifying more suspects," a spokesman says, adding she is not the same person who threw her pass at the driver just as 15 to 20 teens were gathering for the attack.

By adamg - 3/14/13 - 7:41 am

The Herald reports that the first person arrested for the MBTA bus-driver beating was turned in by somebody who overheard him talking about the attack - and that among the evidence against him is a tweet the next night about how his hands hurt.

By adamg - 3/13/13 - 1:13 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Roxbury teenager for his alleged role in an attack on a Route 16 driver that left him with a banged-up face.

Albert Galloway, 18, will be arraigned in Dorchester District Court on charges of wrongful interference of a bus, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a shod foot), assault and battery and fare evasion, police say.

By adamg - 3/13/13 - 10:59 am

The US Attorney's office reports federal agents seized radio-transmitting equipment from a pirate radio station transmitting from a Brockton home, in part because it was interfering with an air-traffic-control frequency for Logan Airport.

By adamg - 3/12/13 - 5:44 pm

Boston Police report a man driving on Talbot Avenue around 8:40 p.m. was shot in the arm by somebody in another car.

The victim stated he drove to his girlfriend’s house to pick her up and then went to the hospital. The victim suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his right arm.

By adamg - 3/11/13 - 4:41 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports Steven Godfrey of Roslindale has taken steps to run against the city's longest serving city councilor - who has yet to announce whether he'll run again or maybe run for something else.

By adamg - 3/10/13 - 6:41 pm

Boston Police report three people became hospital patients early this morning when they darted out from behind a van right into the path of a car traveling down Dot. Ave.

By adamg - 3/10/13 - 12:42 pm

WBZ reports on the attack early Saturday on a Route 16 bus at Columbia Road and Geneva Avenue. Transit Police report:

By adamg - 3/9/13 - 9:02 pm

Boston Police report officers found two men shot in a gray Toyota Corolla at Columbia Road and Hancock Street around 6:30 p.m., Saturday.

One man was pronounced dead at the scene, the other was taken to Boston Medical Center in critical condition, police say.

Friends identify the dead man as Thaddeus "Mighty" Clark.

Boston murders in 2013.

By adamg - 3/9/13 - 3:06 pm

UPDATE, 6 p.m. Boston Police tweet the street is open again.

Police have blocked off Washington Street between Talbot Avenue and Aspinwall Road due to a sinkhole that erupted this morning and which now consists of a cavern roughly half the width of the road. The city Department of Public Works took over oversight of the hole and its eventual filling in after the Boston Water and Sewer Commission determined the rapidly spreading void was not due to any of its pipes or manholes. No bedrooms have yet to disappear down the hole.

By adamg - 3/7/13 - 6:26 pm

Boston Police report finding a man with a gunshot wound at 564 Adams St. at 11:39 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

By adamg - 3/7/13 - 4:48 pm

Boston Police report somebody hot-wired five golf carts at the Franklin Park golf course late Tuesday or early Wednesday. Police recovered four of them near the twelfth hole, but say the fifth remains missing.

The officer observed that the control panel of the carts had been ripped from where they were fastened and that the starters were hot-wired to get the carts moving. A Sawzall may have been used to cut the chain of the gate to the holding area.

By adamg - 3/7/13 - 8:14 am

Wicked heavy traffic, wicked high tide at Neponset River Bridge. Photo by Boston Harbor Beacon.Wicked bad traffic into Boston, wicked high tide at Neponset River Bridge. Photo by Boston Harbor Beacon.

State Police, of course, closed Morrissey Boulevard early this morning, which is what you can expect from a road built roughly two inches above sea level next to a bay. And that, naturally, meant shutting the exit to Morrissey off I-93 northbound.

At 7:59 a.m., Steve Bickerton tweeted:

Neponset Circle backed up Gallivan Blvd. to Eire Pub.

Michelle added:

Neponset Ave is a parking lot. 15 mins from Coffey Street to Lil Peach.

Meanwhile, upbay at Castle Island, Steve Brady reported:

The ocean is slowly devouring the Sugar Bowl, and the water is up to the sidewalk at parts of the causeway. Couldn't even see a hint of the harbor islands from the Sugar Bowl, either. Just the swollen ocean. Very eerie.

By adamg - 3/6/13 - 10:09 am

MuckRock has put together an interesting chart and map based on data about tickets issued by city inspectors for failing to shovel sidewalks after the February blizzard.

Via Matt Carroll.

By adamg - 3/4/13 - 3:10 pm

An Abington man was ordered to attend Narcotics Anonymous or AA meetings twice a week after prosecutors said he was drunk when he hit a toddler and a child in a stroller at Talbot and Dorchester avenues around 6 p.m. on Thursday, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office - which says the guy switched seats with his passenger before police arrived.

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