Last month, the US Attorney's office announced roundups of alleged members of the H Block and Mission Hill gangs.

The alleged associates of the H Block gang, based on the streets north of Franklin Park, were charged with the sort of gun- and drug-related offenses you'd expect. But their Mission Hill counterparts - based at the Mission Main and Annunciation Road projects - were charged with a different kind of crime with which to support their own violent warring: Heading out into wealthy suburbs and stealing large amounts of mail which they'd rifle for checks, so they could "wash" them with chemicals and make out checks in large amounts to themselves or accomplices. Read more.

Boston firefighters have been busy battling brush fires this weekend, first in Stony Brook Reservation yesterday and then in Franklin Park today - after more than three weeks without any rain. Read more.

The BPL's Jamaica Plain branch on South Street is taking suggestions on what it should name its new bright-eyed book cart (Carty McCartface is probably too much of a cliche).

Earlier:
Googly-eyed Green Line trolleys take to the tracks.

A federal judge has sentenced Deondre Blanding, 27, of Roslindale, to five years in prison for engaging in a shootout in a pot deal gone bad on a residential street in Randolph, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

A man was stabbed in the face on Centre Street near Creighton Street in Jamaica Plain around 9:45 p.m.

On the morning of Aug. 18, a motorist who probably wasn't going at all fast, no sir, slammed into the long stone wall that runs along Pond Street between Prince and Eliot streets, across from the southern end of Jamaica Pond. Read more.

A disgusted Jamaica Plain resident filed a 311 complaint this afternoon after city workers refused to pick up an old chair out at the curb, because, according to the orange note they left behind, it was covered in bedbugs when, the kvetcher complains, it was actually covered in dead ants from yesterday's extreme aerial ant orgy across much of the area: Read more.

Five people were shot in the the area of Circuit Drive between Pierpont Road and the golf clubhouse tonight. Read more.

Boston Police report a guy has been looking for chain-wearing seniors getting off buses or trains in Hyde Park, Mattapan, Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury, then following them and ripping the chains off their necks. Read more.

Jamaica Plain News reports Hyde Park's Roundhead Brewing will take over the Pinebank promontory at Jamaica Pond Aug. 16-17 and Aug. 23-24 for a beer garden that will feature both beer and "farm-to-plate Caribbean American eats."