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Maintenance vehicle goes off the rails in Dorchester

By adamg - 5/4/14 - 7:33 pm
MBTA maintenance vehicle falls off tracks

Photo by DJ Stevens.

Firefighters are on Elm Street in Dorchester, trying to contain any fluids that might be leaking from a T maintenance vehicle that fell off the Red Line around 7 p.m.

A T spokesman reports:

A piece of equipment crews have been using all weekend for track work on the Dorchester branch of the Red Line slid down a hill today. Operator of the equipment had no visible injuries but was taken to the hospital as a precaution. The cause of the accident is under investigation. Buses have been replacing train service in that area all weekend to allow crews to perform the track work.

Trying to jump from one roof to another during a party proves an unwise decision in Dorchester

By adamg - 5/3/14 - 10:39 pm
Ambulance on Bellflower Street

After the fall on Bellflower Street

A roving UHub photographer happened upon a chaotic scene outside what had been a rockin' party on Bellflower Street in Dorchester tonight:

There were partygoers jumping from the roof onto a neighboring roof. One missed, took out the other house's porch railing, and landed three stories down into an alley. Taken away in bad shape.

Gunfire on Dorchester street

By adamg - 5/2/14 - 11:25 pm

Police recovered at least six shell casings on Whitfield Street near West Tremlett shortly after 11 p.m.

Police investigate possible Savin Hill gunfire

By adamg - 5/2/14 - 8:02 am

Around 11:10 p.m. in the area of Tuttle and Sydney streets. By 12:50 a.m., police had Sydney Street taped off, looking for evidence. Possible suspect: A white man in a black hoodie seen running from the area.

J.M. Blythe reports:

Three shots, so loud I thought it was in my drive way! 45 sec later a car flew down the st. at a high speed.

Fight ends in stabbing near Codman Square

By adamg - 5/1/14 - 12:41 pm

A man apparently attempted to end an argument that turned physical by stabbing the other participant, around 12:15 p.m. on Wentworth Street near Norfolk Street. The victim was not hurt badly enough to keep him from chasing after his attacker. Police arrived in time to find both of them.

Police: Man brought a rifle to a fistfight, but officers arrived before he could use it

By adamg - 5/1/14 - 12:33 pm

Boston Police report that officers on bicycle patrol in Dorchester Monday evening were alerted to a fight on Columbia Road, just off Blue Hill Avenue.

Two to get life for killing man in Codman Square marijuana robbery

By adamg - 4/30/14 - 2:22 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Reginald Holley and Oasis Pritchett of first-degree murder for the Oct. 17, 2012 death of Alfonso Rivas in a Lyndhurst Street apartment, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

The verdict means a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

Prosecutors convinced the jury that Holley, 24, and Pritchett, 23, both of Roxbury, planned to rob Rivas of the marijuana they had allegedly arranged to buy from him.

South Bay Asian market shuts down

By adamg - 4/29/14 - 10:48 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Kam Man has closed.

Man stabbed in Fields Corner

By adamg - 4/28/14 - 5:12 pm

Around 5 p.m. at 500 Geneva Ave.

Parole board approves Henriquez's release

By adamg - 4/28/14 - 2:27 pm

Although the former state rep still has a couple of steps before he's actually free, including getting fitted for a GPS bracelet, the Herald reports.

Ed. question: The Herald refers to the "co-ed" he attacked. Does anybody besides Herald writers actually say "co-ed" anymore?

Two stabbed near Edward Everett Square

By adamg - 4/28/14 - 7:38 am

Stanley Stacos reports two men wound up stabbed around 2:20 a.m. at 1269 Massachusetts Ave. Both got themselves to the Boston Medical Center emergency room.

Why crawl from bar to bar when you can take the T?

By adamg - 4/25/14 - 9:35 am

Boston Magazine reports on a Red Line bar crawl tomorrow sponsored by Future Boston to promote late-night T service. Well, to be exact, they'll start in a bar on Savin Hill, present CharlieCards for a ride to a bar downtown and then finish up with sushi in Harvard Square.

Ed. note: What would an Orange Line equivalent be? Start at Forest Hills, where the young'uns would start at the Dogwood or Eugene O'Neill's, the hardened barflies at JJ Foley's Fireside Tavern or the Drinking Fountain, but then where from there?

Well, what book would you read to little kids if you were general manager of the MBTA?

By adamg - 4/24/14 - 5:08 pm
Beverly Scott and the Little Engine that Could

Photo by MBTA.

MBTA GM Beverly Scott read to kids at the Crispus Attucks Children's Center in Dorchester today. She chose two books: The Little Engine that Could and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Bullet fired into Grove Hall house

By adamg - 4/24/14 - 1:20 pm

Around 12:30 p.m. into a second-floor room in a house on Lawrence Avenue at Normandy. A resident was home at the time, but in another room.

State took down Martin Richard overpass banner due to wind

By adamg - 4/24/14 - 10:33 am

Paul Nutting and Andrea at WBZ report MassDOT took down the 65-foot banner on the Savin Hill bridge over 93 due to the wind, returned it to the artist.

Missing: "No more hurting people ... Peace" banner

By adamg - 4/23/14 - 11:08 pm

Seems somebody removed the Martin Richard memorial banner from the bridge to Savin Hill over the Expressway. Its creators are wondering why - and where it is.

UMass student charged with campus bomb threats

By adamg - 4/23/14 - 1:26 pm

Dean Beckford, 29, of Somerville, was arraigned today on two counts of making a bomb threat for calls that emptied Wheatley Hall at UMass Boston last Thursday and again yesterday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Beckford's bail was set at $20,000.

According to the DA's office, Beckford's downfall was in using pay phones at the Davis Square Red Line stop and near the Park Street T stop to make his calls:

It wasn't funny the first time: UMass building evacuated due to bomb threat - again

By adamg - 4/22/14 - 1:10 pm

For the second time in less than a week.

Two other unlicensed radio stations also shut by feds

By adamg - 4/18/14 - 7:17 pm

Touch FM got all the publicity, but federal agents yesterday also shut two other stations - one at 100.1 MHz that broadcast in Haitian creole from studios in Dorchester and another in Brockton.

In a statement, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz said:

It is a public safety hazard for illegal radio stations to broadcast, potentially interfering with critical radio communications.

UMass building evacuated on bomb threat

By adamg - 4/17/14 - 12:55 pm

UPDATE: All clear announced shortly before 3 p.m.; no bomb found.

Paul Weiskel reports he got an alert at 12:47 p.m. to evacuate the Wheately Building and to stay clear of the area until further notice.

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