The Dorchester Reporter reports workers today carted away the howitzer that long sat outside the American Legion Old Dorchester Post 65 next to the Eire Pub, because the post was shut recently and sold to a developer planning a building aimed at people between 55 and 65. The gun is being given to a veterans post on the Cape.

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a request from Saigon Chicken House, 223 Adams St. in Dorchester, to buy the beer-and-wine license from a defunct South End Thai place. Read more.

The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire in a three decker at 80 Adams St., at Lyon Street in Dorchester sent one firefighter to the hospital with minor injuries and displaced seven residents. Read more.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld Dominic Shiner's conviction for voluntary manslaughter for the stabbing death of Sean Dwyer outside Dwyer's Adams Street barber shop in 2014. Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board today gave Kenneth Blasi permission to buy out his brother Joseph and re-open Blasi Cafe, 762 Adams St. in Dorchester. Read more.

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 115 Adams St. around 11 a.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.

The Dorchester Reporter fills our cup with an update on the South Boston bucket-coffee place's return to Adams Village - in renovated space in the building where Windy City used to be until a fire in 2019. The Windy City space itself will be taken by a cookie place.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Live Boston reports BPD officers responding to a ShotSpotter call found a man with several gunshot wounds in a car at Gallivan Boulevard and Adams Street around 3:15 a.m. Read more.

Boston and State Police report arresting three men on gun charges in two incidents on Adams Street in Dorchester less than two hours apart overnight - with one of them after he was allegedly driving around Dorchester with two guns, more than 500 rounds of ammunition and a knife. Read more.

Victim identified as Jason Brandao, 28, of Dorchester.

Around 11:15 p.m. at 121 Adams Street at Leedsville Street. A man was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A woman was also shot, but she is expected to survive, police say.

Boston murders in 2020.