An associate of the Norton/Olney/Barry Gang violated his federal probation for passing a bad check when he shot somebody repeatedly on Burrell Street in Dorchester in 2022, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Read more.
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By adamg - 8/16/24 - 9:29 am
The owner of a Dorchester temp agency was formally charged yesterday with hiding enough payroll transactions from the feds over three years to reduce his taxes by more than $2 million. Read more.
By adamg - 8/12/24 - 10:30 pm
Two men were shot in an apartment at 5 Trent Street in Dorchester around 6:40 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 8/12/24 - 9:59 am
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old they say was part of a group that set upon a woman on Southern Avenue at Millet Street and stole her moped and purse shortly after 4 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/11/24 - 1:07 pm
A person was shot shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday on Castlegate Road at Normandy Street. Injuries not considered life threatening. A gun was recovered at the scene.
By adamg - 8/7/24 - 2:19 pm
FitzGerald calls for emergency declaration.
The City Council today urged the Boston Public Health Commission and Gov. Healey to declare a public-health emergency as a tool to keeping Carney Hospital in Dorchester open beyond the end of the month, when its bankrupt owner plans to close it. Read more.
By adamg - 8/5/24 - 10:59 am
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that Suffolk County prosecutors can't use the drugs police say they found hidden in a packet under a man's genitals as evidence against him, because the officers conducted their strip search on the side of Norfolk Street in broad daylight rather than first taking him to a more private area, such as the local police station. Read more.
By adamg - 8/4/24 - 11:33 pm
A man traversing the Morrissey Boulevard drawbridge southbound on a skateboard somehow fell off his board and the sidewalk and wound up on the grates where the two halves of the bridge come together, about a foot below the sidewalk, shortly after noon. Read more.
By adamg - 8/4/24 - 1:40 pm
Lee Toma spotted a gull panting in the heat at Tenean Beach in Dorchester yesterday afternoon. If only there were a way for the bird to cool down there. And, yes, the gull looks way bigger compared to the tank than it really is, so don't have any nightmares about giant gulls.
Headline inspired by Sarah E. Bourne.
By adamg - 8/3/24 - 10:30 am
Lahens during one of the robberies. From FBI affidavit.
A federal judge this week sentenced a man to 77 months in prison for robbing a series of businesses in Boston in 2023 while he was on probation for a series of armed robberies in New York. Read more.
By adamg - 8/2/24 - 4:11 pm
Tom Menino used to do it all the time (in case you're wondering why there are no WalMarts in Boston and why the first Chick-fil-A in town only opened after he left office); now Mayor Wu is telling the real-estate holding company that owns what will soon be the former Carney Hospital that she will block any redevelopment of its 11.7-acre site along Dorchester Avenue that is not solely focused on healthcare, the Dorchester Reporter reports.
By adamg - 8/1/24 - 11:44 am
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a license that will let DJ's Market, 120 Boston St. in Dorchester's Polish Triangle, add beer and wine to its offerings. Read more.
By adamg - 8/1/24 - 11:02 am
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by a downtown restaurant and bar group to branch out and buy the closed Dorset Hall, 367-271 Neponset Ave. in Dorchester, and re-open it as an Irish pub called McGonagle’s. Read more.
By adamg - 7/31/24 - 11:20 pm
Boston Police report a man was shot at 28 Fernboro St. in Dorchester around 8 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 7/29/24 - 7:29 pm
Rendering of the Mass. Ave. side by RODE Architects.
A local developer has proposed a six-story, 45-unit residential building at 1274 Massachusetts Ave. that would also have an entrance on Boston Street, not far from the Giant Pear and the mega-intersection of Edward Everett Square. Read more.
By adamg - 7/26/24 - 10:02 pm
Two 15-year-olds were ordered held without bail after they were arrested on charges for holding up a pre-teen waiting for a cookout at the Children's Park playground at Intervale and Fernboro streets in Dorchester Thursday evening, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 7/25/24 - 1:14 pm
The MBTA board today approved a $54-million plan to replace the diesel-powered trains on the Fairmount Line with more climate-friendly battery-operated cars within four years, which could mean almost subway-like train frequency - and some relief for Readville residents who live near the yard where diesels now loudly vibrate, hum - and have their horns blared - into the early morning hours. Read more.
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Person shot on Castlegate Road, 8/10/24