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 Police report officers who stopped a car with a busted brake light at East Cottage and Batchelder streets in Dorchester yesterday wound up arresting its two occupants after a drug-sniffing dog went nuts
Around 11:45 p.m., a person was shot in the back outside 44 Humphreys St.
Boston Police are at Columbia Road and Holden Street, where a man was shot around 12:45 p.m. Police are looking for a man in a red shirt who fired several shots at two men, hitting one.
"The Heat," that Sandra Bullock production that's already featured a bus crash in Roxbury, will be filming at the old Norfolk Tap in Uphams Corner, starting at 7 a.m. on Sunday. A note to nearby residents concludes:
They will blowing up a car sometime on Sunday afternoon on Norfolk Avenue, so you will probably hear a big boom. ALL SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ARE BEING TAKEN AND COORDINATED WITH THE CITY.
A man shot at Dudley and Humphreys streets in Uphams Corner shortly before 9 p.m. was driven to Boston Medical Center and then left there. The man's injuries were serious enough to have the homicide unit called in.
Police are looking for a blue, 2002 Mazda Protege, Mass. reg. 917 MN3.
The owner of Camilo Liquors II, 735 Dudley St., had to explain to the Boston Licensing Board today why he was violating the terms of his license by continuing to sell liquor past his legal 11 p.m. closing time on May 29 - a police citation said an officer saw a clerk selling liquor to one person, with four or five additional people lined up at the counter at 11:03 p.m.
But Francisco Camilo said the clock inside his store read 10:58 p.m. - and his phone said it was 10:59 - so he felt he wasn't doing anything wrong. He added he already had two of the store's three front metal grates down.
ProjectV, which brought several hundred people to Wendover Street for a daylong party, ended about 90 minutes early when pretty much every officer in District B-2, accompanied by reinforcements from across the city, arrived. Stanley Staco, monitoring the police activity on radio, reported the party broke up without incident.
Focused on the Strand Theatre, into which the city has poured several million dollars worth of renovation, the Dorchester Reporter reports:
City officials hope the neighborhood will become a "cultural hotbed" for artists, with street performances and impromptu gallery spaces.
Boston Police report finding the body of a man in his 50s at 3 Virginia St. shortly after 1 p.m.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Emmanuel Pina and Sandro Tavares guilty of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of a man with whom they'd had a beef and an innocent cook gunned down by an errant bullet at the now closed Ka-Carlos Bar and Grill in 2009, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The verdict means mandatory sentences of life without possibility of parole. The two were also found guilty of shooting a third man, who survived.
Boston Police are looking for a suspect in a bank robbery around 1:15 p.m. at the Sovereign Bank branch at 585 Columbia Rd.
The suspect is described as a black man, 5'5" to 5'7", weighing 200 to 220 lbs., with a beard and sunglasses. He left the bank in gray sweatpants, but took those off and was last spotted running in bluejeans.
The branch was also held up last October.
Leonard Young, 33, of Mattapan, was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bail at his arraignment in Dorchester District Court on chages of armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and various weapons charges, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which adds the victim, at first appearing near death, is now expected to recover.
Readville Post Office: Small, but no easy walk to the next post office.
Boston Police report a man was shot and killed around 8 p.m. at Humphreys Street and Humphreys Place.
Conor Yunits discovers an interesting Google Maps satellite view of Uphams Corner.
The owners of Ka-Carlos, scene of a brutal fight last August that ended with two murders, have shut the place down and are in the middle of selling off its assets.
There's a meeting tomorrow, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Grove Hall Community Center, 51 Geneva Ave. Police say they're calling the meeting both because of an increase in store robberies across the city in general and the murder of Hermanos Unidos clerk Geraldo Serrano in particular.
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