Roving UHub photographer butternugz spotted the smoke from Point Norfolk in Dorchester this afternoon.
NBC Boston reports more than 100 acres of woods burned overnight in Lynn.
The National Weather Service has a red-flag warning up for the entire state, until 6 p.m. on Sunday. There's a chance of rain after that and through Monday.
Boston Police report officers who spotted a guy speed past them on American Legion Highway and then turn left onto Blue Hill Avenue early this morning wound up arresting the driver on a variety of charges, several involving this third or fourth offenses for unlawful possession of dangerous weapons. Read more.
A judge today agreed to let the Department of Correction force a feeding tube up the nose and then down the throat of a convicted 70-year-old murderer on a hunger strike, but said he will give the inmate a chance to explain why he should be allowed to continue refusing all but small sips of water at a hearing next week. Read more.
Victim identified as Jashaun Smith, 45, of Dorchester.
A man was shot in the chest on Michigan Avenue near Old Road in Dorchester shortly before 8:05 p.m. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting one of two men they say ran from officers investigating reports of men with guns behind the Joseph Lee K-8 School on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester after the start of the school day Monday morning. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer spotted a couple of gaggles of Trump supporters by and above the Expressway at South Bay today - some on the Southampton Street overpass, some along Frontage Road, all just up the road from the pro-Harris billboard at the IBEW hall.
Our photog expressed puzzlement over the activity in a city that is going to give Harris an overwhelming majority: Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Vivian Girard couldn't help but notice this electronic billboard beside the IBEW Local 103 hall as he took his morning walk through Clam Point in Dorchester, near the Southeast Expressway.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a proposed Papa John's at 1501 Dorchester Ave. in Fields Corner after the franchisee agreed to add salads, and possibly other healthy offerings to its menu - and to require all delivery drivers to make pickups through a rear door rather than clogging up the already crowded street out front. Read more.
Update: Food-serving license approved.
The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to grant a food-serving license to a Papa John's franchisee for an outlet at 1501 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester's Field's Corner. Read more.
Rendering by Stack and Co.
The family that owns Down Home Delivery & Catering at 2 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester's Four Corners has filed plans to replace their building with a seven-story apartment building - with ground-floor space for their restaurant to move back into. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 128 Capen St., near Fuller Street in Dorchester, for what turned into a two-alarm fire around 7:15 p.m.
The department reports the fire displaced 15 residents, but that none were injured.
A fed-up resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about a guy who is always playing his bagpipes in Adams-King Playground in Dorchester: Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old on charges he held up a convenience store at Park and Norwell streets in Dorchester last Wednesday. Read more.
The Globe reports a federal judge yesterday sentenced Stash's owner Stavros Papantoniadis, 49, of Westwood, to 8 1/2 years in federal prison for his conviction in June on three counts of forced labor and three counts of attempted forced labor after a trial that included accounts of him bullying, beating and harassing his workers for years. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports several hundred people gathered Sunday at the Old Dorchester North Burial Ground in Uphams Corner to learn more about the historic cemetery, one of the oldest in Boston, but rarely open to the public.
Domingos DaRosa makes a point.
In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.
NBC Boston reports on the stabbing, around 9:45 p.m. on Monday outside the Allstate Road restaurant.
Two people were shot, one in the head, on Glenway Street at Maybrook Street around 1:40 a.m. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the McDonald's at 500 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester's Fields Corner to extend its current midnight closing time to 3 a.m. - but only for pick ups by third-party delivery services, so burger-mad night owls will have to punch in their orders at home.
Nobody objected to the plan at a hearing yesterday. The franchisee at the location already operates similar wee-hour pickup service in Allston and at TD Garden.
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