Man charged with 1999 murder on Columbia Road
January 14, 2026
A Jamaica Plain man is being held without bail on charges that he deliberately set a fire that largely destroyed his relative’s Washington Street home after an argument on Christmas Day.
A local developer is proposing a six-story hotel with 42 suites and a rooftop restaurant and terrace on East Cottage Street, next to a five-story apartment building he recently put up on Dorchester Avenue.
Two shooting incidents in two days have roiled life for people on Merlin Street – a typically quiet residential, one-block street between Codman Square and Four Corners.
The Boston Licensing Board could decide Thursday whether to let Equis Pica Pollo, Blue Hill Avenue at Columbia Road in Dorchester, stay open until 1 a.m. or whether to defer any action until after the New York-based chain meets with a local community group, Project RIGHT.
Boston property owners received a mixed New Year’s message from City Hall last Wednesday: The values of their homes have gone up, according to city assessments, but the bill due to the tax collector will also go up in the new year, with a Feb. 2 deadline for the first installments.
Boston Police are investigating the death of a man who was struck and killed by a pick-up truck in Uphams Corner on the afternoon of Dec. 31.
The vocalist Cristina Evans. Photo courtesy Taylor Rossi Photography Dorchester’s Cristina Evans will perform
