Boston Police report on three incidents last night:

A man was found shot around 8:30 p.m. at 30 Algonquin St. in Dorchester. He was taken to Boston Medical Center with possibly life-threatening injuries.

Clayton Doyle, 48, of East Boston, allegedly upset that the McDonald's at 220 Border St. in East Boston had closed for the night, used a construction barrier to smash one of the eatery's windows, police say.

Two Roxbury teens interrupted by a car owner while they were burglarizing his car around 2:30 this morning hit the guy in the chest with a tire iron, drove away (the guy at least got to smash their rear window) then came back and threatened to shoot him - just as police arrived on the scene at Gay Head and Round Hill streets in Jamaica Plain. William D. Mejia, 18, of Roxbury and an unnamed juvenile, 15, charged with a variety of things.

Innocent, etc.

Jimbo passes along some possible news involving the long-vacant Public Welfare building in the East Boston square.

Boston Police report a knife fight at 207 E. Eagle Street early this morning left two men with potentially fatal injuries. Two men were arrested not long after; one was himself brought to the hospital with a less serious knife wound.

William Mendoza, 22, of Revere and Rafael Vasquez, 28, of Chelsea were both charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon for the 1:20 a.m. incident. Police did not specify which of the two was wounded.

Police say officers responding to the scene spotted a car speeding down Putnam Street; they stopped the car and:

While officers were talking to the occupants, officers discovered that one of the occupants was suffering from a stab wound.

Innocent, etc.

Fabulously Out There grabs her camera just in time to get some action shots of her crazy-ass neighbors lowering a refrigerator from their second-floor porch to the ground.

Boston Police report arresting an East Boston man for knocking a woman down and stealing her purse last night.

William T. Gore, 24, was charged with unarmed robbery and assault and battery resulting in injuries for the incident after 11 p.m. at Orleans and Sumner streets:

On arrival, officers spoke to the victim who reported that she was just assaulted and her purse stolen. The victim went on to tell officers that she was at the intersection of Orleans St. and Sumner St. when she was approached from behind, assaulted, knocked to the ground, and her bag was then stolen by the [suspect] who fled in the direction of the Maverick Square MBTA station.

Police say they found Gore off Sumner Street a few blocks away.

Also click on the link to read about an arrest in a less violent mugging on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester yesterday afternoon and about an early-morning noise complaint to 911 that resulted in an arrest of a man for bringing a loaded gun to a party on Wayland Street in Dorchester.

Innocent, etc.

That little girl didn't disappear from the McDonald's in Central Square in Cambridge. She disappeared from the McDonald's in Central Square in East Boston. Fortunately, it's a moot point, since she showed up at home last night, but, you know, it might make a difference sometime. For the record, the Globe issued a correction.

Boston Police call off the search.

An East Boston man faces sentencing on Monday for stomping a Princeton Street cat to death, then lighting its body on fire and using it to try to burn down a triple decker, the Suffolk County DA's office announced.

Luigi Epifinia, 25, was convicted by a Suffolk Superior Court jury today. He is also awaiting attempted-murder charges for allegedly attacking an acquaintance on Saratoga Street during a botched drug deal. The DA's office says they linked Epifinia to the June 13, 2007 cat killing/arson incident during their investigation of that case, in which he allegedly slashed the man, punched him in the face, then forced him into a shower and threatened him with a hot frying pan:

While in custody, Epifania made statements indicating that he had gone looking for an acquaintance who lived at the Princeton Street address and then fallen asleep on some steps when he was turned away.

Upon waking up, he saw the cat and first began to pet it. He then "lost it," he said, and began to kick and stomp on the cat. When he saw that it was dead, he put it in a bag, doused it with lighter fluid, set it aflame, and threw it into the building before running away.

The cat was named Nunu and was liked by all who knew him.

Fabulously Out There had just an absolutely swell time getting home to East Boston after taking in a movie at the Loews on Tremont Street, what with the cabbie refusing to take her unless she paid for his tolls on the way back:

... So I did what my East Boston cab drivers told me to do and started looking for his cab license number.

"Where is your license number," I said.

"WHAT?"

"Your license number. Your cab number. Where is it?"

"WHY?"

"Because you are NOT supposed to charge me for the tolls and I want the number so I can call Hackney." ...

With a special sad coda.

Jenny, a staffer at Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, describes a typical day at the Harbor Explorers program at Piers Park:

To begin our day at Piers Park the kids and Pat always pull up the lobster traps, which is very exciting for the kids. We have caught red rock crabs, spider crabs, and a couple of lobsters. We bring down a white bucket with us so we can put what we catch in the touch tank. The kids also enjoy crabbing and looking for bait. ...