WFXT reports that yesterday morning, some guy in a masked tried making off with the satellite smashed into an Altima on Washington Street downtown - tearing it off the car and dragging it a few feet before realizing that damn, that thing is heavy and, probably, that he had no place to store such a large object.

The art exhibit in more innocent times.

Police are looking for a dark SUV whose driver they say hit two pedestrians on Washington Street between Northampton and Lenox streets, then drove away, around 8:30 p.m. Read more.

The Boston Landmarks Commission recently designated the Jewelers' Building at Washington and Bromfield streets as the city's newest official landmark. Read more.

There's an art installation of what looks like a satellite crashed into the hood of an Altima parked on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing (not to be confused with one of the art installations that look like giant pink blobby guys). Of course, you're not supposed to park on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing, even if a satellite just crashed into you car, so somebody at BTD wrote it a ticket.

Brighton Main Streets reports that Scoop N Scootery at the corner of Washington Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton has closed. Fans will now have to trek all the way to Linden Street in Allston for some of its ice cream. Brighton Main Streets adds, though, that another ice-cream place might be moving in.

Roving UHub photographer Joyce Falk Onyango had to stop when the Santa-crossing lights came on on Washington Street at the Forest Hills T stop yesterday.

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by the owners of Spukies N Pizza at 1159 Washington St. at Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester to replace their building and parking lot with a four-story, 14-unit condo building - with ground-floor space for them to resume making pizzas and subs once construction is finished. Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace an old junkyard with a four-story, 48-unit apartment building at 251-257 Washington St. in Dorchester. Read more.

Victim identified as Celia Simmons, 65.

Boston Police report a woman was stabbed several times near the tennis court on the Washington Street side of Ramsay Park in Roxbury around 12:45 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.

A person was stabbed in the throat in a field on the upper-busway side of the Forest Hills T station, where Washington Street crosses the Arborway to become South Street, around 4:20 p.m. Read more.