Teen was walking around Codman Square at 2 a.m. with a loaded gun, police say
Boston Police report arresting a 16-year-old they say had a gun loaded with bullets at Park and Claybourne streets in Dorchester early this morning.Police say officers on patrol shortly after 2 a.m....
View ArticleFive charged with brawling inside Dorchester courthouse
Two men who'd just gotten out of a Dorchester court hearing on gun charges got into a brawl with two other men and a teenager while still in the courthouse yesterday morning. The five were all on the...
View ArticleDA: Spitting man provided the DNA evidence investigators needed to tie him to...
Brian Keazer, 50, of Jamaica Plain, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment today on charges he stabbed Ruth Foster 37 times in her Codman Square apartment in 1997, the Suffolk County District...
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Man charged with murdering woman in her Codman Square apartment in 1997
Ruth Foster, photo via BPD.Boston Police report arresting a man they say stabbed Ruth Foster to death in her apartment on Withington Street in Dorchester on Oct. 14, 1997.Police say fugitive-unit...
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Mattapan man liked taking weekend drives up to Maine - to sell drugs - feds say
A man who allegedly used his first-floor apartment in a Mattapan three decker as the base of operations for a drug-and-gun operation was arrested Wednesday after DEA agents who had been watching him...
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From a West Indian restaurant in Roxbury to a gastropub in Oak Square: Board...
Clayton Weston explains his Roxbury proposal.The Boston Licensing Board today heard six applicants explain why they should get one of the new neighborhood-specific liquor licenses the city now has to...
View ArticleVenerable Codman Square men's store folds up its suits
The Dorchester Reporter talks to Jay Wolf, whose family had been running Jordy's Men's Store for decades, initially as an outpost of the family department store, Silverstein's.Topics:...
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Plans unwrapped for five-story building with all affordable apartments in...
Rendering by DHK Architects.The Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corp. today filed plans to replace a one-story storefront block and a garage at Washington Street and Southern Avenue in Codman...
View ArticleCodman Square could get a Narcan vending machine
The Dorchester Reporter reports the Codman Square Health Center is considering putting in a machine that would dispense free doses of Narcan - which can help revive somebody in an opioid...
View ArticleMan gets life for murdering Dorchester gas-station attendant in 2018
A Canton man was sentenced to life without parole today for gunning down 67-year-old Jose Luis Phinn Williams as Williams and a co-worker were getting ready to close down the Fabian gas station at...
View ArticleNot enough money, regime cuts to SNAP, doomed the noble idea of Daily Table,...
Bill Walczak, who has been on the board of directors of the non-profit Daily Table since it opened its first store in Codman Square in 2015, says farewell to the chain and its goal of providing good...
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Mattapan man liked taking weekend drives up to Maine - to sell drugs - feds say
A man who allegedly used his first-floor apartment in a Mattapan three decker as the base of operations for a drug-and-gun operation was arrested Wednesday after DEA agents who had been watching him...
View ArticleNot enough money, regime cuts to SNAP, doomed the noble idea of Daily Table,...
Bill Walczak, who has been on the board of directors of the non-profit Daily Table since it opened its first store in Codman Square in 2015, says farewell to the chain and its goal of providing good...
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From a West Indian restaurant in Roxbury to a gastropub in Oak Square: Board...
Clayton Weston explains his Roxbury proposal.The Boston Licensing Board today heard six applicants explain why they should get one of the new neighborhood-specific liquor licenses the city now has to...
View ArticleOff-duty cop confronts hammer-wielding shoplifter in Codman Square drugstore,...
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man they say was in the middle of shoplifting at the CVS at 451 Washington St. in Dorchester when confronted by an off-duty officer who happened to be in the...
View ArticleMan points loaded gun at people next to Dorchester court but is nabbed by...
Boston Police report arresting a man they allege thought there was enough distance between him and all the cops inside Dorchester Municipal Court that he could threaten some people with a gun, only...
View ArticleCodman Square group remains fed up with fast food
The Dorchester Reporter reports the Codman Square Neighborhood Council voted to oppose plans to turn the Oriental House Chinese place into a Boston Fried Chicken place in part because the square...
View ArticleCop trying to break up one fight in Codman Square gets pepper sprayed by...
Boston Police report an officer working a detail who was trying to get two women to stop whaling on other in the middle of the intersection of Washington Street and Talbot Avenue was pepper sprayed by...
View ArticleTeenager fires gun in Codman Square, police say
Boston Police report arresting a 16-year-old on charges he fired a round outside 60 Southern Ave. around 5:10 p.m. on Monday. Read more.Mon, 10/09/2023 - 17:10Neighborhoods: DorchesterTopics: CrimeFree...
View ArticleBoston to start stocking library restrooms with free menstrual products
Mayor Wu today announced a pilot program to stock the restrooms at BPL branches with dispensers offering free pads and tampons. Initially, Aunt Flow will install the dispensers at the Brighton, Codman...
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