Milton, Boston and MBTA police are looking for a woman who held up the Citizens Bank branch at 40 Adams St. in Milton shortly after noon. The woman, described as black, tall and wearing a head scarf, showed a note to a teller. She was last spotted on foot heading across the bridge into Dorchester.
Neponset brush fire. Photo by BFD.
Boston firefighters are in the brush along the Neponset behind Ventura Street in Dorchester Lower Mills, battling a large brush fire.
The Dorchester Reporter reports that for the second time in less than two weeks, an ATM stolen from the South Shore has wound up on Richmond Street. Like the first time, the ATM had been stripped of all its cash.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on a fire early this morning at 68 Butler St. Fire officials blame careless disposal of smoking material.
The Dorchester Reporter breaks the news: Common Ground is no more, but the religious group that ran it is looking to re-open somewhere else, maybe in Dorchester.
The owner of a Dorchester liquor store nabbed for selling beer to a Quincy teen vows to keep it from happening again.
Boston Police report arresting an alleged would-be bank robber inside the Meetinghouse Bank, 2250 Dorchester Ave. in Lower Mills, yesterday afternoon.
But what if the neighborhoods say no? Tough. BPL officials hold "working sessions" on how to replace the some of the services now provided by the doomed branches tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Dorchester Lower Mills branch and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Faneuil branch in Oak Square.
Sessions are planned for next month at Orient Heights and Washington Village (South Boston).
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Boston baristas converge at the Ledge in Dorchester Lower Mills on Saturday for the second annual Flat Black Barista Throwdown to see who makes the meanest coffee in town.
Cowbark reports she has to move out of her apartment in the Chocolate Factory soon:
I'm really really hoping we can find something new in the area, because there are a million things I will miss when we move away. ...
She then lists some of them.
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Boston Police report the arrest of an East Boston woman after officers on routine patrol spotted her punching a guy at an ATM at Dorchester Avenue and Adams Street around 12:30 this morning.
Police charge Erica Messina, 25, followed the guy into a Citizens Bank vestibule and, after he withdrew money to pay his rent:
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