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Two brothers charged with stabbing death in fight outside Dorchester hotel

By adamg - 7/10/14 - 1:51 pm

A Suffolk County grand jury this week indicted two brothers on charges they used a detachable steering wheel and a knife in a brawl outside a party at the DoubleTree Hotel on Mt. Vernon Street that ended with one of their opponents dead of stab wounds - from his own knife.

Shawn Coleman, 22, of the South End, was charged with second-degree murder and was allegedly the attacker who ended Christopher Borgella's life early on March 1. His brother, Harold Coleman, 26, of Dorchester, was also indicted for second-degree murder for his role in the brawl, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office and Boston Police.

It wasn't funny the first time: UMass building evacuated due to bomb threat - again

By adamg - 4/22/14 - 1:10 pm

For the second time in less than a week.

Police ID Dorchester hotel stabbing victim

By adamg - 3/10/14 - 8:01 pm

Boston Police report the man stabbed to death in a fight that spilled out of the Doubletree Hotel on Mt. Vernon Street on March 1 was Christopher Borgella, 23, of Dorchester.

Borgella was fatally stabbed around 2:35 a.m. in a fight that sent another man to the hospital.

Fight outside Columbia Point hotel leaves one dead, one in the hospital

By adamg - 3/3/14 - 10:44 am

Boston Police report a large party in a room at the Doubletree Hotel on Mt. Vernon Street early Saturday spilled into the street outside and ended with two men stabbed, one fatally.

Police have yet to make any arrests for the stabbings, which happened around 2:35 a.m., but Capt. John Greland at C-6 says there is "a very active investigation."

Somebody stealing catalytic converters from vehicles in parking lots in South Boston, Columbia Point

By adamg - 1/24/14 - 5:03 pm

Over the past few days, four catalytic converters have been detached from vehicles, according to Capt. John Greland at C-6:

On Tuesday, the owners of a 1998 Toyota and a 2000 Toyota discovered their cars parked at 2 Morrissey Blvd. were missing their converters.

Middle Eastern guy with fake mustache sought for armed robbery of Harbor Point convenience store

By adamg - 10/14/13 - 12:11 pm

Boston Police report the Harbor Point Convenience Store, 17 Harbor Point Blvd., was held up around 8:10 p.m. on Sunday:

The suspect walked in to the store and brandished a firearm at the cashier. The witness stated the suspect demanded money be placed in a bag, the cashier complied. The suspect fled the store in a maroon motor vehicle.

The suspect is described as a Middle Eastern male, wearing a fake mustache, black hooded “North Face” sweatshirt, black jeans and white and black sneakers.

Columbia Point could see invasion of the people pods

By adamg - 6/19/13 - 2:57 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports a local company is looking at the possibility of setting up a mass-transit system on Columbia Point that would use tiny pods on a monorail-like structure to whisk people along Mt. Vernon Street.

Hit and run, man shot at Harbor Point

By adamg - 6/3/13 - 8:43 pm

Updated Tuesday morning.

A man awoken from a slumber in a car on Oyster Bay Road by security guards around 8 p.m. sped off, plowing into several cars before aiming his vehicle at a guard, who shot him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

The driver, Leroy Wiggins, a.k.a., Chris Summers, 40, of Dorchester, suffered a non-life-threatening injury and is expected to be arraigned today on charges related to the incident, the DA's office says.

One tree hill

By adamg - 5/17/13 - 7:48 am

Tree on hill at UMass Boston

Brad Kelly captured a tree on a hill at UMass Boston.

In Dorchester, kids get their MCAS on

By adamg - 3/23/13 - 8:09 pm

Video by teachers and students at the Dever-McCormack School on Columbia Point.

Dorchester gets briny

By adamg - 10/29/12 - 2:55 pm

Flooding along JFK library

Dev traveled along the water in Dorchester this afternoon, making stops at the Harborwalk by the JFK library (above), Malibu Beach and Morrissey Boulevard (below), which seemed unusually flooded even for its normally flood-prone self:

Wet Morrissey Boulevard

Community gun cache uncovered on Columbia Point

By adamg - 4/29/11 - 1:37 pm

District C-6 reports:

UMass Boston falling down, falling down, falling down

By adamg - 12/17/10 - 4:30 pm

A 385-pound chunk of concrete plummeted from a ceiling, but school officials said no problems, it happened in an area where nobody is supposed to go, the Dorchester Reporter informs us.

Police searching for armed teens in Harbor Point home invasion

By adamg - 1/7/10 - 3:34 pm

Boston Police tweet they're looking for three black males, about 18, who busted into an apartment on Westwind Road this afternoon. They claimed to have guns; one pulled out a knife. Police say one was wearing a white jacket, the other two black jackets.

Something smells: Developer threatens to pull $1B Dorchester development over stink plant

By adamg - 11/21/08 - 8:16 am

The Dorchester Reporter breaks the news that Corcoran Jennison Companies is considering canceling its giant "Bayside on the Point" project because the MWRA is refusing to budge on its plans to build an odor-control plant nearby.

The housing project would replace the current Bayside Expo Center; the odor-control plant would use carbon filters and a smokestack to get rid of odors from up to 18-million gallons of sewage-laden storm runoff. The paper talks to South End residents who live near a similar treatment plant.

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