The Massachusetts Appeals Court today overturned Nardo Lopes's 2008 conviction for a murder in 1995 that led to a violent war that spanned parts of two decades. Read more.
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By adamg - 6/15/16 - 11:42 am
The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday considers a proposal for a package store that would specialize in beer and wine from the Caribbean, Cape Verde and other "exotic" locales. Read more.
By adamg - 6/15/16 - 8:01 am
Not long after news broke of his rape indictment, Dorchester Municipal Court probation officer William Averill died when his SUV plowed into a bridge abutment in Randolph, WCVB reports.
State Police report: Read more.
By adamg - 6/14/16 - 11:24 pm
The Dorchester Reporter alerts us to a roughly 230-year-old, 13-star American flag now on display at the Commonwealth Museum on Columbia Point.
By adamg - 6/14/16 - 4:13 pm
UPDATE: Averill died in a car crash yesterday afternoon.
William Averill, 50, of West Roxbury, faces arraignment tomorrow on charges he raped a woman who'd reported to him as part of her probation for larceny, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office and Boston Police report. Read more.
By adamg - 6/14/16 - 1:06 pm
Licensing Board votes "no violation" by auditorium.
Boston Police and a manager at the Russell Auditorium say a man stabbed repeatedly outside the Talbot Avenue facility on May 7 was apparently attacked in revenge for a rape for which he was convicted about five years ago. Read more.
By adamg - 6/11/16 - 10:32 am
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Shayne Parker to five years in prison for interstate transportation of firearms and being a felon in possession of ammunition, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 6/10/16 - 9:32 am
The Herald reports that when the gunfire started Wednesday, Raekwon Brown rushed out of a pizza place and pushed a woman down - saving her life but ending his.
The Globe talks to his relatives and teachers, who described a happy kid who "didn't know anything about the streets," and who never missed a day of school and worked hard to get As.
By adamg - 6/9/16 - 11:00 am
The Globe reports on the teen shot to death outside Burke High School in Dorchester yesterday afternoon.
Two other students and a woman were also shot, but survived.
WBUR reports the school brought in grief counselors today.
He is Boston's 13th murder victim this year.
By adamg - 6/8/16 - 1:46 pm
Fire scene. Photo by Jay Kenney.
Boston firefighters responded around 1:20 p.m. to a fire at 93 Park St. in Dorchester that went to four alarms before it was knocked down. The Boston Fire Department reports no injuries.
By adamg - 6/8/16 - 1:42 pm
Boston Police report a 17-year-old is dead from a barrage around 1:15 p.m. outside Burke High School this afternoon that also injured two other teens and a woman in her 60s.
City Council President Michelle Wu ended today's council meeting by announcing the shootings.
By adamg - 6/5/16 - 5:36 pm
Did she cast a spell to hold off the rain?
The annual neighborhood celebration wended its way up Dorchester Avenue today.
Some of the musicians prepared for the rain that mostly didn't fall: Read more.
By adamg - 6/5/16 - 12:21 am
The Herald reported yesterday that a Dorchester man had posted a video to Twitter in which he threatened to kill EMTs and police officers he felt were harassing him.
A Boston EMS supervisor who saw the video and text threats says that when he reported it to Twitter, somebody at the network responded: Read more.
By adamg - 6/4/16 - 11:23 pm
UPDATE: The Globe identifies the victim as Ronnie Headley, Jr.
A man in his 30s was fatally shot in the chest around 11:20 p.m. at 8 York St.
By adamg - 6/4/16 - 1:33 pm
Boston Police, family and friends have identified the man shot to death on Devon Street last Sunday as Levar Godfrey, 31.
His sisters have set up a GoFundMe page to create a scholarship fund for his daughter, 7: Read more.
By adamg - 6/3/16 - 11:41 pm
Around 11:30 p.m., in the leg, inside 34 Franklin Hill Ave. Her injuries were not considered life threatening.
By adamg - 6/2/16 - 11:01 am
On Tuesday, police and Aquarium biologists investigated the remains of a basking shark in the Reserve Channel. This morning, Nichole spotted what appeared to be the same shark floating in the water off the JFK Library on Columbia Point.
In 2012, a whale carcass that washed ashore on one of the Harbor islands eventually floated out to sea and headed north, winding up on a beach in Rockport.
By adamg - 6/1/16 - 10:42 pm
Boston Police report they are investigating two indecent assaults that happened within 15 minutes of each other in the area of Columbia Road and Richfield Street.
Around 6:15 a.m. a woman was approached from behind by a man who groped her and then ran down Richfield, police say. About 15 minutes later, another woman was attacked in the same manner and area, they add.
By adamg - 6/1/16 - 6:55 pm
Arthur Samuels, who once ran Bank of America's Fields Corner branch, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution for his role in Michael David Scott's scheme to suck money out of banks with fraudulent real-estate purchases in 2007 and 2008, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.
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