The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to renovate a single-family home at 9 Fuller St. in Dorchester and add a rear extension with four floors - to create a total of 14 condos. Read more.
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By adamg - 7/16/24 - 11:58 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposal for a burger trailer inside a tire shop at 538 Blue Hill Ave. at Seaver Street over concerns from neighbors about late-night gatherings and crime and concerns from board members about security before its proposed 1 a.m. closing. Read more.
By adamg - 7/15/24 - 1:27 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man they say used a crowbar to smash his way into a store at 338 Washington St. in Dorchester early Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 7/13/24 - 11:08 am
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Kobe Smith, 25, to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a gun-running gang that bought guns at an Alabama gun shop, then brought them up to Boston for sale on the street. Read more.
By adamg - 7/12/24 - 10:54 am
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about the sign that used to tell people they couldn't park overnight along Denny and Springdale streets near McConnell Park in Dorchester, but which has acquired a new interpretation:
The sign use to say no parking after dark but it looks like it could say something different
By adamg - 7/12/24 - 9:40 am
Boston Police report arresting three of the four suspects in the armed holdup of everybody inside Edward's Barbershop, 479 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall yesterday afternoon. Read more.
By adamg - 7/5/24 - 11:08 am
Boston Police report arresting a man on charges of kidnapping and assault and battery on a child under 14 after an incident on Wentworth Street in Dorchester yesterday afternoon. Read more.
By adamg - 7/3/24 - 9:35 am
A Dorchester man was arraigned this week on a charge of indecent assault and battery on a person under 14 for creating a ruse to take a photo up an 11-year-old girl's skirt as she was on her way to school, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 7/2/24 - 2:29 pm
Update, 4:45 p.m. A test Red Line train just went through Savin Hill with no problems following repairs to the third rail and the fence.
A driver somehow managed to slam his SUV onto the outbound Red Line tracks from the parking lot at Savin Hill station early around 12:30 p.m., damaging part of the third rail and causing the shutdown of the line between JFK/UMass and Ashmont, as Just Some Dude shows us. Read more.
By adamg - 7/1/24 - 4:48 pm
A man who was driving down Columbia Road was shot at Columbia Road and Stanwood Street around 4 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 6/30/24 - 12:14 pm
Boston Police report a man crashed into the house at 24 Fifield St. in Dorchester around 8:30 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 6/27/24 - 11:36 am
Dyette in customized Cincinnati jersey, via US Attorney.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Keiarri "Kemo" Dyette, 26, to 42 months in federal prison for his role in the Cameron Street gang, which included beating a member of the rival Wendover Street gang bloody with a gun and selling guns to a man who turned out to be working for the feds, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.
By adamg - 6/27/24 - 9:29 am
A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted Nickoyan Wallace, 49, of first-degree murder for gunning down Ivanildo Barros on Park Street in Dorchester in 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 6/26/24 - 12:51 pm
A Dorchester man faces a variety of gun charges - including possession of a machine gun - after he led BPD gang-unit officers and state troopers on a foot chase Tuesday evening, police say. Read more.
By adamg - 6/25/24 - 1:32 pm
Rendering by RODE Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a land owner's plans to replace a Richdale and a parking lot on its land at 1420 Dorchester Ave., near Adams Street in Dorchester, with a five-story, 46-unit apartment building. Read more.
By adamg - 6/25/24 - 12:52 pm
Rendering by Utile, showing institute buildings in rear, behind garden entranceway.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for a three-story Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning on what are now two city-owned vacant lots at 30 Westville St. in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/24 - 10:17 pm
A man was shot at Harbor Point Boulevard and Westwind Road in the Harbor Point complex in Dorchester around 9 p.m.
One car had a bullet go through one of its tires.
By adamg - 6/19/24 - 11:22 am
Boston Police report a guy pointed a gun at a man, robbed him of $140 and then beat him in the head with a gun, at Columbia Road and Hancock Street in Dorchester around 12:35 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 6/19/24 - 11:02 am
The state's list of beaches where you need to not even think of going into the water, include Savin Hill and Tenean beaches in Dorchester, Houghton's Pond in Milton and Walden Pond in Concord.
By adamg - 6/19/24 - 10:19 am
Bethea running with gun after Canton home invasion. Surveillance photo via ATF.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Daronde Bethea to 250 months - 20 years, 10 months - in prison for his role in the Cameron Street Gang, which included trying to gun down a member of the rival Wendover Street Gang and participating in armed home invasions in Dorchester and Canton, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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