As the torrential rains pour down, Columbia Road has flooded at Hamilton (where the train tracks cross) and in the area of Devon Street.

The flooding there sent motorists down Quincy Street, where they promptly had to stop near Ceylon Street, because of flooding under the train tracks there. One motorist climbed out of his car and was standing on the roof of his car due to floodwaters that came about halfway up his car.

As he sat on the woman's couch, taking a breather from being chased by cops, the kid sighed he just couldn't go back to jail, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office recounts. But the woman convinced him to get out of her apartment, which he had broken into, and police officers, already looking for him, soon caught up with him. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting two people in cars whose drivers they say sped through two red lights on Columbia Road early this morning - one for the loaded gun he was packing, the other for outstanding arrest warrants for him. Read more.

In the leg, near Blue Hill Avenue, shortly before 2 p.m., Stanley Stacos reports.

Boston Police report an incident around 12:15 p.m. at Quincy and Dacia streets in Dorchester left one person shot, one truck riddled with bullets and one man under arrest, although police say they don't yet know if he was involved in the gunfire or just happened to be in the area with a loaded gun. Read more.

In three separate incidents after 9:15 p.m., one at Blue Hill Avenue and Dewey Street, one a couple blocks away at Blue Hill Avenue and Maywood Street and the third a couple blocks away from that on Quincy Street, about a block off Blue Hill Avenue. All three victims were taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.

Around 10:20 a.m., police responded to the Shell station at Quincy Street and Blue Hill Avenue, where they found a man who had made his way there after being shot further down Quincy Street, near Perth Street - about an hour after another man was shot on Quincy.

A man was shot at Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street around 10:10 p.m. Police officers arriving on scene were forced to take cover behind cars when the shooter kept shooting.

The victim was shot in the arm. No officers were hit. The shooter dropped his gun and may have fled in a car.