Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old on charges he robbed three convenience stores on Blue Hill Avenue and Harvard Street in Dorchester - just after he entered a fourth store on Friday. Read more.
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By adamg - 3/23/24 - 1:51 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on a variety of charges after they stopped him for driving on the wrong side of the street and speeding and found "an Interarms Ltd .45 caliber handgun loaded with one live .45 cartridge in the chamber and nine .45 in the magazine" and a machete in his car early this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 2/20/24 - 12:15 pm
Suffolk County prosecutors who plan to use cell-tower data to place a suspect in a 2015 Dorchester home invasion, murder, shooting and arson at the scene of the crime won't be able to use data from the man's phone that seems to also place him at the location, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled today. Read more.
Pair got the max for the minimum after they pulled a knife at a Brookline clothing store, police say
By adamg - 1/23/24 - 10:53 am
Brookline Police report they are looking for a pair of shoplifters who legally became a pair of armed robbers when one of them "brandished a knife when confronted" at the TJ Maxx store on Harvard Street near the Allston line on Jan. 15.
If they look familiar, contact Brookline Police at 617-730-2222.
By Sasha Patkin - 9/26/23 - 4:12 pm
Loaded Latkes with smoked salmon and dill sour cream. Photo by Sasha Patkin.
“Knish Happens," "Love you a latke," "Almost Kosher," and "Got Matzo Balls?"
Zaftigs in Brookline knows its brand, and its tongue-in-cheek T‑shirts are as iconic as the fresh takes on Jewish cuisine that it serves. Read more.
By adamg - 6/4/23 - 10:27 pm
Boston Police report officers arrested a Mattapan man on gun charges after initially pulling him over for running a red light at Cummins Highway and Harvard Street in Mattapan shortly before 5:30 p.m. today. Read more.
By adamg - 4/1/23 - 3:40 pm
Boston Police report officers responding to a report of gunfire at Harvard Street and Gleason streets in Dorchester around 3 a.m. spotted a car with a broken taillight and pulled it over when they ran the plates and discovered they weren't assigned to that car. Read more.
By adamg - 2/21/23 - 1:00 pm
A man known as "Dog Bite" was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in Dorchester court today on charges that he stabbed Urvin Gerald to death outside the Mount Horeb Lodge at Harvard and Norwell streets in Dorchester last July, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 2/20/23 - 2:30 pm
Boston Police report the arrest of a local man on charges he fatally stabbed Urvin Gerald, 48, in the neck on Harvard Street in Dorchester on July 16, 2022.
Read more.
By adamg - 12/23/22 - 11:25 pm
Victim identified as Michael Collins, Jr., 18, of Dorchester.
A man was shot in the head at Franklin Hill Avenue and Shandon Road in Dorchester around 11 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 11/9/22 - 1:32 pm
The man's dump truck. Photo by Live Boston.
Victim identified as Elijah Pinckney, 35, of Dorchester.
A man was shot at Harvard and Paxton streets around 1:15 p.m. Boston Police report he was declared dead at the scene. Read more.
By adamg - 10/31/22 - 11:47 am
Brookline Police report a shoplifter at the TJ Maxx, 525 Harvard St. escaped in a cloud of pepper spray that she unleashed when she realized a store worker was about to try to stop her at the front door, shortly after 6 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/21/22 - 1:23 pm
The developers of the Olmsted Green development on the old Boston State Hospital along Harvard Street in Mattapan will soon file plans for six new buildings with 265 apartments and condos - including one building that would have 20 apartments for families with foster or adopted kids and 40 apartments for seniors who would agree to help them out. Read more.
By adamg - 7/16/22 - 9:30 pm
Victim identified as Urvin Gerald, 48, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report a man was stabbed at 110 Harvard St., at Norwell Street, in Dorchester around 1 a.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
By adamg - 4/11/22 - 3:52 pm
Starbucks Workers United reports workers at the Starbucks at 1304 Commonwealth Ave. in Allston and 277 Harvard St. in Coolidge Corner both voted unanimously to unionize today.
By adamg - 12/12/21 - 11:50 am
In December, 1951, Arthur Fiedler and BSO musicians Inar Hanson George Zasowsky journeyed to the Prendergast Preventorium, 1000 Harvard St. in Mattapan to join the younger patients there for their annual Christmas party. Read more.
By adamg - 11/11/21 - 9:39 pm
Stanley Stacos reports a vehicle flipped over on Cummins Highway where it meets Wood Avenue and Harvard Street shortly after 9 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 2/6/21 - 12:33 pm
Boston Police report that when officers pulled over a driver on Harvard Street in Dorchester for a traffic stop early this morning, one passenger got out and ran away - only to slip on ice outside Sun Pizza on Blue Hill Avenue, which let them catch up and arrest him for the gun they say he tossed during his failed escape. Read more.
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