By adamg - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 1:07pm

Sometime before 7:40 a.m., the driver of a Corolla slammed into a traffic-light pole on the southbound side of Blue Hill Avenue at Columbia Road in Dorchester, sending the pole slamming down across the road and creating an instant traffic jam. No serious injuries, at least.

By adamg - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 9:39am

Boston Police report officers arrested a 15-year-old they say was in possession of "a Glock 43 with an extended magazine containing eight 9mm rounds" after they first stopped his driver, also 15, for allegedly speeding up Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan and Dorchester yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 12:34pm

Lawyers for the Papantoniadis family, which owns Stash's in Dorchester and Bel Ave Pizza in Roslindale today asked the Boston Licensing Board to let it keep the food-serving licenses for the two places now that Stavros Papantoniadis is serving an 8 1/2-year federal sentence for beating, threatening, berating and underpaying his immigrant workers. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 01/06/2025 - 9:24pm

Boston Police report arresting a man they say was selling bootleg Newport cigarettes and illegal weed out of his car behind the Stop & Shop at 468 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 12/19/2024 - 1:00pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the planned February opening of El Punto, a 240-seat Dominican restaurant with a 148-seat function room on Blue Hill Avenue at Talbot Avenue in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 11/18/2024 - 1:46pm

Boston Police report officers who stopped a man for speeding and swerving down Blue Hill Avenue early this morning arrested him not just for that, but for the automatic rifle loaded with 30 bullets, two loaded handguns, switchblade and cocaine they found on him or in his car. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 3:12pm

Boston Police report officers who spotted a guy speed past them on American Legion Highway and then turn left onto Blue Hill Avenue early this morning wound up arresting the driver on a variety of charges, several involving this third or fourth offenses for unlawful possession of dangerous weapons. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 10/03/2024 - 12:42pm

Boston has covered 30 bus stops along the 28 route between Mattapan Square and Ruggles with planters as part of a three-year pilot that, if successful, could be expanded to bus shelters across the city: Read more.

By adamg - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 11:47am

Boston Police report charging a 73-year-old Cambridge man with the stabbing of a 57-year-old man at Blue Hill and Franklin Hill avenues around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 08/26/2024 - 11:42am

Boston Police report on a series of unrelated arrests Saturday of people wandering around the Caribbean Carnival area with loaded guns, from a 16-year-old and two pals they say had two guns in a backpack - one loaded with 18 bullets - to a man with a gun loaded with seven rounds who was charged with his fourth firearm offense. Read more.

By adamg - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 11:19am

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the Domino's at 1514 Blue Hill Ave. extend its closing time to 2 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday - with delivery only via car and payment only by credit card. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 9:32am

Boston Police report they are looking for seven men and women they say attacked and robbed a woman outside 218 Blue Hill Ave. around 7:40 a.m. on Monday. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 07/16/2024 - 11:58am

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 - Fri, 07/12/2024 - 9:40am

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 - Thu, 07/11/2024 - 4:55pm

Update: Three suspects arrested.

Four men in black ski masks and each armed with a gun burst into Edward's Barbershop, 479 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall around 3:50 p.m. and robbed the six people inside. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 07/09/2024 - 11:35am

A person was shot several times on Clifford Street at Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury around 1 a.m.

By adamg - Fri, 07/05/2024 - 1:02pm

A person was shot at the Mobil station at 783 Blue Hill Ave. at American Legion Highway around 5:15 this morning. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 06/07/2024 - 3:33pm

A federal jury today convicted Stavros Papantoniadis for a reign of terror against his workers, which included sending one man into surgery twice and and tormenting other workers by threatening them with death and with turning them into ICE. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 04/18/2024 - 1:24pm

Melvin Gross, who says he was one of the two people shot at a party at 1601 Blue Hill Ave. shortly before 6 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2023, today sued the building's owner for allegedly failing to keep him safe. Read more.