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Columbia Road

By adamg - 2/13/18 - 2:40 pm
Conservatory Lab Charter School rendering

Architect's rendering. With birds.

The Board of Appeals today approved a new $25-million building for the Conservatory Lab Charter School on Columbia Road at Quincy Street. Read more.

By adamg - 1/11/18 - 5:13 pm

UPDATE: Victim identified as Shaquille Browder, 21.

Two people were shot in the parking lot of the Burger King at Columbia Road and Washington Street around 2 p.m., according to Boston EMS Incidents. One later died, Boston Police report.

Both that man and a second, found with non-fatal injuries, were in their early 20s, police say.

The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of at least one victim's injuries. Read more.

By adamg - 1/8/18 - 10:50 pm

Boston Police report an off-duty officer crashed into another car at Columbia Road and Ceylon Street in Dorchester on New Year's Day, sending the two occupants of the other vehicle to the hospital - one with serious injuries. Read more.

By adamg - 10/27/17 - 10:52 pm

Around 10:40 p.m. at Columbia Road and Bird Street. At least six shots fired.

Not long after, a man showed up at a local ER with a fresh gunshot wound; unclear if it's related.

By adamg - 10/1/17 - 10:40 pm

NBC Boston reports on a two-car crash at Columbia Road and Washington Street shortly before 7 p.m. Boston EMS Incidents reports at least one of the injured was a pedestrian.

By adamg - 9/24/17 - 1:08 pm
Prposed Columbia Road school

Architect's rendering (architects sure love their flocks of birds).

The Conservatory Lab Charter School has filed plans with the city to build a new $25-million school for its 275 students in grades 3 through 8 at Columbia Road and Quincy Street. Read more.

By adamg - 8/13/17 - 2:03 pm

Shortly before 2 p.m. at Ceylon Street and Columbia Road. The victim showed up about 10 minutes later at a local emergency room, with a non-life-threatening injury.

By adamg - 7/21/17 - 10:33 pm

WFXT reports on the incident on Columbia Road, where the temperature was 87.

By adamg - 7/6/17 - 11:14 am

Around 11 a.m. at Columbia Road and Bird Street.

Photo of the scene.

By adamg - 7/6/17 - 11:11 am

UPDATE: Victim identified as Nathaniel Dix.

Stephen White, 61, is scheduled for arraignment in Dorchester Municipal Court today on charges he fatally stabbed an acquaintance in the area of Columbia Road and Intervale Street, the Suffolk County Districct Attorney's office reports.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 6/2/17 - 9:31 am

Boston Police report arresting an 11-year-old, a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old for a series of knifepoint robberies in the area of Ceylon Park and the Frederick Middle School. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/17 - 9:46 pm

Around 8 p.m. at Columbia Road and Devon Street, Scott Eisen reports.

By adamg - 4/13/17 - 2:42 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man who was helping somebody who'd just been shot run away from the area of Columbia Road and Glendale Street. Read more.

By adamg - 4/7/17 - 10:20 pm

UPDATE: The Herald reports one under arrest.

Around 9:20 p.m. on Columbia Road at Wolcott Street. Multiple shots fired.

Photo of the scene.

By adamg - 4/5/17 - 3:04 pm

Columbia Billiard Co., 558 Columbia Rd., has trouble with a capital T and is currently shut as its new owner awaits word from the Boston Licensing Board both on a series of violations found in a February inspection and its requests for the licenses it should have had before that inspection. Read more.

By adamg - 3/24/17 - 8:10 pm
Wanted for Dorchester housebreak

Boston Police report they are looking for two men they say broke into a Columbia Road house with a pry bar yesterday morning and made off with a small safe. Read more.

By adamg - 9/16/16 - 1:15 pm

The Santander Bank branch at 585 Columbia Rd., around 1 p.m. by a black man, about 35, wearing black clothes and sunglasses and with facial hair. He fled on foot.

The branch was held up in June.

By adamg - 8/26/16 - 11:57 am

Boston firefighters are at the Old Colony Avenue underpass at Columbia Road, where two manholes began smoking around 11:45 a.m.

By adamg - 7/28/16 - 9:30 pm

Around 9:15 p.m. Sam Schweizer, passing by in a car at the time, heard three shots.

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