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By adamg - 1/11/24 - 11:14 am

Update: Some 70 people convicted in Suffolk County could have their sentences changed to add the possibility of parole based on the rulings, the Suffolk County DA's office reports.

The Supreme Judicial Court today extended a ban on automatic parole-less life sentences for teens convicted of first-degree murder to people as old as 20. Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 9:55 am
Rendering of proposed new three-family house on Savin Hill Avenue

Rendering by Nicholas Landry, DRT.

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Pauline and Tony King of 164 Savin Hill Ave. in Dorchester to enlarge their single-family home into a three-condo building. Read more.

By adamg - 1/9/24 - 1:38 pm
Rendering of proposed Greenhills Bakery and condos

Rendering by Choo & Company.

The owners of the Greenhills Bakery, 780 Adams St. in Dorchester, today won approval to raze their current store to replace it with a larger bakery topped with three additional floors with nine condos. Read more.

By adamg - 1/8/24 - 11:36 pm

“Don’t Take Me Off The Rocket, Please!” - Ayo Edebiri On The Success Of Her Show, “The Bear”

GBH interviews a couple of Ayo Edebiri's teachers at Boston Latin School on her award for her role in "The Bear."

By adamg - 1/8/24 - 10:34 am

The state Attorney General's office last week sued the BHA over its treatment of a family with two girls with asthma and developmental issues, charging the authority ignored repeated complaints for three years about the unsanitary conditions in their Franklin Field apartment that were so bad the girls had to seek emergency care at a local hospital two to three times a month. Read more.

By adamg - 1/6/24 - 4:42 pm

A South Boston man already charged in two firearm cases was ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing next week following his arrest on a variety of gun charges at Centre and Redwood streets in Dorchester, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 1/5/24 - 2:53 pm

State Police report four teens were in a stolen Hyundai Accent speeding up Morrissey Boulevard early Thursday morning when the car rolled over near the UMass entrance. Read more.

By adamg - 1/4/24 - 12:27 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today rejected a request from Cristian Market, 411 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall, to add beer to its inventory, because of overwhelming opposition from nearby residents about the already easy access to beer at six other stores within a half mile. Read more.

By adamg - 1/4/24 - 9:36 am

State Police report two people died and two more were injured - one critically - in a rollover crash shortly after 3:15 a.m. on Morrissey Boulevard northbound, near the UMass entrance, in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 1/1/24 - 10:09 pm

Updated, 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

A fight between two women behind 27 Washington St. in Dorchester ended around 8:50 p.m. when a man shot one of the combatants. Read more.

By adamg - 1/1/24 - 9:15 pm

Mattapan Line riders had to take a bus for most of the day because of a cavalcade of trolley problems today. WCVB reports that when a trolley died at Butler this morning, the T sent out another trolley to try to push it to the Mattapan yard. But then that trolley died. So the T sent out a third trolley to push the two newly deceased trolleys down the short line. It died, too.

By adamg - 1/1/24 - 9:56 am

Victim identified as Nilton Fernandes, 24, of Dorchester.

Boston Police report a man was found shot to death outside 34 High St. in Dorchester at 5:28 a.m.

The man, pronounced dead at the scene, is Boston's first murder victim this year.

By adamg - 12/31/23 - 9:04 pm

Boston Police report arresting two men from the South Shore on charges they fatally shot Curtis Effee, 41, at 417 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester early Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/30/23 - 11:33 am

Victim identified at Curtis Effee, 41.

Boston Police report a man was shot at 417 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester around 12:50 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 12/24/23 - 10:04 pm

Police found a man shot in the right knee on Ripley Road near Harvard Street in Roxbury shortly after 9:50 p.m. Injury not considered life-threatening.

By adamg - 12/23/23 - 1:05 pm
Chicken on the grass, alas

A concerned citizen filed a 311 report about a chicken, possibly injured, by the spray pad at Neponset Park off Hill Top Street in Dorchester this morning.

By adamg - 12/22/23 - 9:55 am
Firefighters at 1644 Dorchester Ave. fire

Boston firefighters responded to 1644 Dorchester Ave. shortly before 7:30 a.m. on Thursday for a fire that heavily damaged the second and third floors of an eight-unit residential building under construction. No injuries reported.

The Zoning Board of Appeal approved replacing a house on the site with the new building in May, 2022.

By adamg - 12/21/23 - 1:27 pm

Boston Police report they will seek criminal charges against a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old they say approached a group of "elderly Christmas carolers" from behind on Johnston Road in Dorchester and punched two of them in the back of the head several times, around 3 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/19/23 - 12:32 pm
Fake ledger

Bogus ledger purporting to show some development expenses, via FBI.

A federal judge yesterday sentenced Edwin Tavarez, 48, of Garfield, NJ to 18 months in prison for the way he got a longtime acquaintance in the old neighborhood to pay him more than $1.5 million over six years for a condo-development deal that never existed to feed a gambling addiction that included frequent trips to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 9:54 am

Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury woman on charges she stabbed four people at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 240 Mt. Vernon St. in Dorchester around 4:20 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

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