Biplaw Rai at Wednesday hearing.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by Biplaw Rai to turn a long abandoned trolley station on Columbia Road in Uphams Corner into a restaurant that serves food with "Asian and African inspiration" by night and more traditional cafe fare by day. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old at 156 Washington St. after they spotted him and another guy break away from a group of guys just hanging off when they pulled up. Read more.
Boston firefighters are at 43 Kerwin St. for a fire reported on the third floor shortly before 9:45 p.m. Residents were rescued from the third floor; one was injured seriously enough to be taken to a local hospital. The bulk of the fire was knocked down around 9:55 p.m.
Live Boston Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports a person died after a pickup crashed into a tree at a high rate of speed on Talbot Avenue at Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday. WBZ reports the impact split the pickup in half.
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Kenneth Blasi permission to buy out his brother Joseph and re-open Blasi Cafe, 762 Adams St. in Dorchester. Read more.
Crime scene. Photo by Jeff Durham.
Update: Father charged.
WBZ reports a girl was grazed by a bullet shortly after 5 p.m. outside 322 Talbot Ave..
Live Boston reports police responded to Talbot Avenue and Washington Street around 1:20 a.m. for reports of gunfire. No victims, but police recovered a number of shell casings.
Spencer Avenue rendering by Studio Luz Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved two buildings that will house a total of 44 affordable apartments along Talbot and New England avenues. Read more.
Victim identified as Isaiah Pires Andrade, 18, of Randolph.
Shortly before 9:30 p.m., a man in an SUV was shot on Kingsdale Street, off Wales Street. He managed to drive down Wales and then turned onto Talbot and drove to Blue Hill Avenue, where he crashed and EMTs found him. Read more.
Priscilla Flint-Banks breaks down thinking about all the people she's had to watch die.
A group of black and Latino Dorchester and Roxbury resident today blasted city and state officials for doing nothing to stop hundreds of people from across the Northeast congregating for a Carnival party along Talbot Avenue last weekend and said they will do what they have to to stop a similar gathering planned for this weekend. Read more.
Shortly before 11 p.m. outside the Lee School on Talbot Avenue. No reports of people, vehicles or buildings hit.
No longer allowed to be used as evidence: The gun and bullets police say they seized.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that Suffolk County prosecutors cannot use a loaded gun allegedly found on a Dorchester man as evidence against him, because police found it under his puffy coat and sweatshirt during what it ruled was an unconstitutional pat frisk. Read more.
A masked man wearing rubber gloves and packing a gun held up Alex Market, 466 Talbot Ave., at Welles Avenue, around 10 p.m.
Architect's rendering of New England Avenue proposal.
The non-profit Codman Square Community Development Corp. has filed plans with the BPDA for a 23-unit apartment building on New England Avenue at Talbot Avenue and a 19-unit building two blocks away at Talbot Avenue and Spencer Street. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plan to replace Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, at 500 Talbot Ave., at Argyle Street, with a four-story apartment building. Read more.
Boston Police report gang-unit officers arrested the guy in the back seat of a cab they'd stopped at Talbot Avenue and Nightingale Street in Dorchester around 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
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