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Lower Mills MWRA map. Click to enlarge. Fasten your seatbelts, Lower Mills residents. Starting next month and running into November, Washington Street, Adams Street, and River Street are scheduled to be periodically closed as part of a project of... Read more
Cherry Clinton, 29, was arraigned today on charges she stabbed Lancelot Reid, 23, to death after he had allegedly assaulted her earlier in the day in her Franklin Field apartment. Dorchester District Court Judge Kenneth Desmond ordered that Clinton be... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was stabbed to death around 10 a.m. on Friday at 80 Ames Way in the Franklin Field project. Cherry Clinton, 28, was arrested for what police say was a "domestic" murder. The victim, not identified by police, was... Read more
Residents who got fed up with the sound of hammering at 2 in the morning at Morton Street and Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan finally called police, who say officers and Nitro the K-9 dog found a Dorchester teen inside the walls of a vacant building on Blue... Read more
The owner of a Dorchester auto-body shop was indicted yesterday on charges he lied to a grand jury investigating a gang that authorities say was responsible for drug deals and a number of murders, the state Attorney General's office said Thursday. Rafael... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports arresting two men on charges they shot another pair of men in Codman Square Sunday night, then beat a woman who witnessed the crime. Police say two men were found with gunshot wounds around 8:05 p.m. at 530 Washington... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports the arrest of an officer assigned to District B-2 on charges he attacked his wife before storming out of their Roxbury apartment around 3:10 a.m. Saturday. Dennis Morson, 36, will be arraigned Tuesday in Roxbury... Read more
A man who allegedly tried to use a hammer to rob Essential Body Herbs, 1282 Blue Hill Ave., Tuesday night wound up getting carted away in an ambulance after the store's owner shot him. WHDH-TV reports the owner has a license to carry the weapon. The... Read more
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a man they say threatened to shoot up a bus on Cummins Highway Tuesday morning because the bus wasn't moving. Police say the driver opened the bus's doors to let panicked passengers out - and they began running toward... Read more
The Boston Fire Department reports a basement short circuit sparked a fire that spread to the first floor of 116 Adams St. around 3:30 Friday afternoon. Local 718 reports the initial call came from children in their bedroom. Firefighters got them out OK,... Read more

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