A man accused by the feds of trying to assemble a collection of explosives in his Dorchester home pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition for his arrest by federal agents at the Ruggles T stop on Thanksgiving, 2020. Read more.
A man was fatally shot in the head around 10:25 p.m. on Monday at 114 Devon St. in Dorchester, where he was pronounced dead at the scene. Read more.
Rendering of the view from Humboldt Avenue by COEverything.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a four-story building with 26 affordable apartments to wrap around the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church at Humboldt Avenue and Waumbeck Street in Dorchester. Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to the house next to the KFC on Columbia Road in Edward Everett Square in Dorchester around 6:50 a.m. for what was quickly announced as a two-alarm fire. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say two officers on patrol spotted walking in the middle of Stratton Street in Dorchester's Franklin Field development Wednesday night. Read more.
Update, 12/17: Suspect arrested.
A man was stabbed in the chest and back on a field at the Brunswick-King Play area off Intervale and Fernboro streets shortly before 9:45 p.m.
Rendering by Derek Rubinoff.
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.
MBTA workers have fixed whatever was wrong with the Red Line tracks just north of Savin Hill and so the "speed restrictions" number for the line is once again at 0.
Boston Police have put out an APB for Gerald Vick, who didn't show up in Suffolk Superior Court for his scheduled trial yesterday on charges that he shot eight people as part of a gun battle on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester on the morning of the annual Carnival celebration in August, 2023. Read more.
Boston was hoping to send out property-tax bills this month with a bit of a break for homeowners. Only problem: state Sen. Nick Collins, who represents South Boston and Dorchester, managed to get any discussion of a bill to let the city temporarily set a higher rate on commercial property until at least Thursday. Read more.
Red Line trains can only go 10 m.p.h. on part of the Ashmont branch. Map by MBTA.
A new slow zone emerged on the Red Line this weekend, just one week after MBTA officials had declared the line free of speed restrictions for the first time in two decades. Read more.
A disgusted resident filed a 311 complaint today about the X somebody spray painted across the explanation on the mural that honors Dorchester's own Ray Bolger, who played the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz:" Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a teenager on murder charges for the June 28 death of Edwin Diaz-Geraldo, 20, of Brighton, who was shot and then crashed into a house at 24 Fifield St. in Dorchester. Read more.
Rendering by Zephyr Architects.
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.
The Dorchester Reporter reports the latest proposal to upgrade the easily flooded road, which would include a new street and intersection just north of the building where the Globe used to be to connect new residential complexes there to the Dorchester waterfront, but not any work on the cranky drawbridge - or other plans for flood-control barriers along Dorchester Bay.
A Dorchester man was found guilty and sentenced to two years in state prison today for the way he beat up a woman who refused to return his "good morning" greeting, only to retreat when she bit him, then got in his car and drove right at her on Balsam Street, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 147 Draper St. in Dorchester for what quickly turned into a two-alarm fire around 12:05 a.m. Read more.
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