Boston Police report looking for a man they say tried to stab a clerk at the Uphams Corner Market, 521 Columbia Rd., 521 Columbia Road in Dorchester, failed, then whacked him with a Hot Pocket.

Boston Police report on a series of unrelated arrests Saturday of people wandering around the Caribbean Carnival area with loaded guns, from a 16-year-old and two pals they say had two guns in a backpack - one loaded with 18 bullets - to a man with a gun loaded with seven rounds who was charged with his fourth firearm offense. Read more.

A Worcester developer and a local architecture firm say they will soon file detailed plans for replacing the shuttered Dorchester Trust at 555-559 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester's Uphams Corner with a two-story Boston Public Library branch and 33 affordable condos. Read more.

Boston Police report a guy pointed a gun at a man, robbed him of $140 and then beat him in the head with a gun, at Columbia Road and Hancock Street in Dorchester around 12:35 a.m. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on gun charges Thursday afternoon following a traffic stop at Columbia Road and Hancock Street in Dorchester. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting a worker at the Burger King at Washington Street and Columbia Road in Dorchester for the way he allegedly used a knife to try to have it his way in a dispute with a patron Thursday morning. Read more.

A Mattapan man faces a variety of gun charges for the gun loaded with eight bullets that Boston Police report he had with him when officers pulled over the driver of the car he was in for speeding in Dorchester Wednesday afternoon. Read more.

Transit and Boston Police report officers responded to a 16 bus Columbia Road near Edward Everett Square for a report of a man who "threatened passengers" with a gun, around 11 a.m. on Monday: Read more.

Boston Police report arresting a 13-year-old they say had "a Hi-Point C9 Luger with seven rounds in the magazine" in his jacket pocket around 6 p.m. yesterday at Columbia Road and Washington Street in Dorchester. Read more.

As the torrential rains pour down, Columbia Road has flooded at Hamilton (where the train tracks cross) and in the area of Devon Street.

The flooding there sent motorists down Quincy Street, where they promptly had to stop near Ceylon Street, because of flooding under the train tracks there. One motorist climbed out of his car and was standing on the roof of his car due to floodwaters that came about halfway up his car.