By adamg - 1/6/25 - 11:44 pm

The Federal Communications Commission today gave eternal candidate Roy Owens ten days to shut off the unlicensed radio station it says he's running out of his house on Otisfield Street - or face "a fine of up to $2,391,097." Read more.

By adamg - 1/6/25 - 11:10 pm

Stanley Staco posts the message BPS sent to Excel students, teachers and parents today, in advance of a more detailed explanation tomorrow about their options after the South Boston school is shut.

Also slated for closing: The Dever School in Dorchester.

By adamg - 1/3/25 - 1:47 pm

A federal magistrate judge agreed last month that Peter McCarthy of Dorchester acted completely reprehensibly in demanding sex and nude photos from women who moved into one of his "sober houses" to try to get clean, but not to the extent of the $3.8 million in penalties a jury had awarded earlier in the year to several of the women, and one man, as damages for violating the federal Fair Housing Act. Read more.

By adamg - 1/3/25 - 11:15 am

Boston Police report arresting a man for the loaded gun, 70 grams of crack and 1.75 ounces of marijuana they say he had in his car in the Franklin Field development in Dorchester Thursday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 1/2/25 - 11:57 am

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old on charges he shot a man in the leg on Wilbert Road in the Franklin Hill development in Dorchester around 12:15 a.m. on Dec. 23. Read more.

Man with red and brown Louis Vuitton handbag wanted for Red Line attack
By adamg - 12/31/24 - 12:38 pm

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say not only harassed a woman on an inbound Red Line train between Quincy Center and JFK/UMass, he punched her in the nose hard enough to start it bleeding, around 8:40 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/26/24 - 4:01 pm

A developer that won BPDA approval last year for the broad outlines of a large, nearly 9-acre, multi-building redevelopment along Morrissey Boulevard, from the Star Market to the former home of Channel 56 has brought on a new partner and plans to soon file detailed pans for the first phase of the project: Two buildings with some 750 residential units, ground-floor retail space and underground parking. Read more.

By adamg - 12/23/24 - 2:21 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man for the gun loaded with 14 bullets he was traipsing around Fields Corner with on Friday. Read more.

Fire at 35 Freeport Way
By adamg - 12/23/24 - 9:26 am

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 35 Freeport Way in Dorchester for a fire in a metal-clad building around 11 p.m. on Sunday. The department reports one person inside was transported to the hospital with injuries.

By adamg - 12/21/24 - 11:43 am

A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted Ramon Rodriguez-Delgado, 48, for stabbing Marcelino Perez, 77, to death in 2018 in the Franklin Hill development in Dorchester, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 12/20/24 - 1:24 pm

WFXT reports dogs attacked a home health aid on Brunswick Street in Dorchester yesterday, sending her to the hospital with serious leg injuries.

Last month, a Roxbury woman died after one of her four dogs attacked her.

By adamg - 12/19/24 - 1:00 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the planned February opening of El Punto, a 240-seat Dominican restaurant with a 148-seat function room on Blue Hill Avenue at Talbot Avenue in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/24 - 10:29 am

A federal judge yesterday sentenced Vincent Lambert, 41, to 12 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to three counts related to the meth he sold a buyer working with the feds on either side of the Charles, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.

By adamg - 12/14/24 - 11:30 am

A man accused by the feds of trying to assemble a collection of explosives in his Dorchester home pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition for his arrest by federal agents at the Ruggles T stop on Thanksgiving, 2020. Read more.

By adamg - 12/10/24 - 2:35 pm

Update: The two men arrested on gun charges after the murder are now charged with the murder.

A man was fatally shot in the head around 10:25 p.m. on Monday at 114 Devon St. in Dorchester, where he was pronounced dead at the scene. Read more.

Rendering of proposed apartments
By adamg - 12/10/24 - 2:19 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a four-story building with 26 affordable apartments to wrap around the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church at Humboldt Avenue and Waumbeck Street in Dorchester. Read more.

Fire on Columbia Road
By adamg - 12/8/24 - 3:27 pm

Boston firefighters responded to the house next to the KFC on Columbia Road in Edward Everett Square in Dorchester around 6:50 a.m. for what was quickly announced as a two-alarm fire. Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/24 - 12:11 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say two officers on patrol spotted walking in the middle of Stratton Street in Dorchester's Franklin Field development Wednesday night. Read more.

By adamg - 12/4/24 - 11:33 pm

Update, 12/17: Suspect arrested.

A man was stabbed in the chest and back on a field at the Brunswick-King Play area off Intervale and Fernboro streets shortly before 9:45 p.m.