-- A man was walking home on Normandy Street in Dorchester late Thursday morning when a young black male, one of a group of three, reportedly walked up to him and asked to see his iPod. When the victim declined the opportunity to show off his piece of gadgetry, one of the men drew a gun and placed it against the victim's temple and told another to take the iPod. They then walked away. Police found the guys later - the oldest was 16 years old - and found the iPod. The gun wasn't found, but all three were arrested and charged with Armed Robbery.

-- Police are investigating how a customer at The Greatest Bar wound up in the hospital with spinal injuries over the weekend - and what role Boston College football players may have played. Sean Maney, 28 and from Watertown, sustained spinal injuries, a concussion, a possible knee fracture and other injuries during the fracas, which seems to have stemmed from when Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Joseph Boike asked Maney and his friends to move from their spots to make way for BC football captains Gosder Cherilus and DeJuan Tribble, among other players.

One thing leads to another and the girlfriend of Brian Maney, Sean's younger brother, tells Boike that he's being rude. Depending on who's telling the story Boike then either A) grabbed the woman by the arm, pulled her off a barstood and pushed a chair toward her, B) screamed an obsensity at her after she kicked a chair at him.

Sean Maney then A) sucker-punches Boike, which prompts Cherilus to bear-hug Maney to break up the fight or B) gets unjustly grabbed, lifted and carried by one football player, punched by another.

Either way, chaos ensues, Maney gets hurt and police are now investigating. Whew!

-- Korey Woods of Dorchester had been bounced from a club on Lansdowne Street at about 1:30 am today, but the 21-year-old kept stuck around the front door area to gab on his cell phone. When officers asked him to leave repeatedly, Woods reportedly grew angry and claimed that he was being harrassed and told the officers "that he would have their jobs," according to the Boston Police Department news website. He took things from annoying to arrestable when he tried to put his hands on an officer's shirt to get that officer's badge number. To make that an especially bad move? The officer was a she - and Woods was charged with disorderly conduct and possession of Class D.

-- We're trying to imagine the clerks' expressions as this one unfolded: Theodore Clark of Mattapan allegedly walked into a Mobile gas station store on Southampton Street at about 2:10 a.m. Friday morning and asked for the location of the trash bags. Clark, described as "a very intoxicated suspect," opened a box of trash bags, took one out of the box and started to fill it up with loot. Lest one think he tried to walk out with it, Clark did try to pay -- for one small bag of peanuts. He was arrested.

-- More shootings: Two men with gunshot wounds were found by police on Seaver Street in Roxbury at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday. One was transported to Brigham and Women's Hospital, the other to Boston Medical Center. Their injuries were non-life threatening.

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