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-- Some Dorchester voters had more on their minds yesterday than the Boston mayoral contest. A 23-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday morning in front of the John Marshall Elementary School, which serves Dorchester as a polling place. Voting was briefly disrupted, and classes were dismissed early as a result of the violence. [Herald]

-- A 21-year-old woman was shot outside of her own Halloween party in Dorchester early Sunday, and was taken to Boston Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition. No arrests have been made. [BPDNews, Globe]

-- A 26-year old female Harvard employee was attacked yesterday night in Harvard Square by a man who tried to strangle her with a rope. The quick-thinking victim was able to crouch, push her male assailant away, and escape with little harm having come to her. No arrests have been made. [Herald]

It's not just Mission of Burma Day today in Boston. It's also ADORE-chester day, when bloggers from some of Dorchester's best blogs list a few things that they love about their neighborhood, Boston's largest—and often least well-covered by the mainstream media. Check out all the blogs today, listed below, and get to know your city a little better.

-- A 15-year-old Dorchester boy pleaded not guilty today to charges that he shot a woman in the face. The boy and a 17-year-old accomplice allegedly attacked a group of three women, and a 5-year-old girl, who were walking through Franklin Field, beating one woman in the face and beating another woman to the ground before fleeing and returning with a gun, which the 15-year-old allegedly used to spray the women with bullets, striking one in the face. [Herald]

It was a dismal weekend of violence in Boston that ended with two dead, including a pregnant teenager.

-- Three men were arrested last night on charges of armed home invasion after they allegedly forced their way into a woman's home on Carson Street using what turned out to be a fake gun. The suspects were also carrying everything you'd need to sell pot, according to police. [BPDNews]

-- A 25-year-old Dorchester man is in critical condition after he was stabbed multiple times early Saturday morning. Boston police arrested one man in connection with the attack. [BPDNews]

-- A community party designed to keep teens off the streets turned bloody Saturday night when 19-year-old Aaron Brown was shot to death. His body was found inside the YMCA, and officials believe that he was shot just before the last dance. Police do not believe that the killing was random. The dance was a part of a weekly series of events designed as a safe alternative to late night Boston streets. The Dorchester Y will not host any further events pending an investigation and possible policy recommendations. [Globe, Herald]

The path for the motorcade escorting Senator Kennedy’s body was recently announced. Starting in Hyannisport, it will proceed north into Boston and drive past places significant in the senator’s and his family’s life: past St. Stephen’s Church and the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the North End, over to the State House, and to then President Kennedy’s former residence on Bowdoin Street and the JFK Federal Building, ultimately arriving at the JFK Library and Museum in Dorchester.

-- Two days of bloodshed rocked Dorchester. A man was shot and killed Monday night on Glenarm Street, and two people were shot last night on Norwell Street. One of the victims, a woman, died of her wounds, and the second was taken to Boston Medical Center with life threatening injuries. Police have released little information about the crimes, which they have not suggested are linked, and no arrests have been made. [BPDNews, BPDNews]

-- Boston cops have captured a suspect in the bloody shoot out that left two dead near Ka-Carlos, the Dorchester Cape Verdean restaurant. An investigation led cops to Emmanuel Depina, a 26-year-old Boston man, who surrendered to the Dorchester District Court this morning. [BPDNews]

-- State Police, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office arrested nine suspects Wednesday night and Thursday after a six-month investigation into alleged cocaine trafficking. Cops seized at least 13 guns, ammunition, 200+ grams of cocaine and at least $45,000. Operation Lightning Bolt is still ongoing. [Herald]

-- A barrage of gunshots resulted in a triple shooting early Sunday morning outside of a Cape Verdean restaurant in Dorchester. Two men died. One of them, 47-year-old Manuel Monteiro, was the cook at Ka-Carlos Bar and Grill and was shot inside the restaurant by a stray bullet. Jovanny Eason, a 20-year-old, died from multiple gunshot wounds. A third victim arrived at Boston Medical Center with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg. [Herald]

-- A 49-year-old man died yesterday after being stabbed multiple times in Roxbury. Police found him near the corner of Dudley and Dearborn Streets and took him to Boston Medical Center, where he died. Police have not named any possible motives in the killing, and no arrests have been made. [BPDNews]

Internal affairs have kept Bostonist's Blotter stuck in limbo. Let's try to catch up. -- Boston cops captured a pair of Lynn men in Jamaica Plain with two bayoneted AK-47s, a bullet proof vest, and a freaky Halloween mask. [BPDNews]

Yelp Boston's "Weekly Yelp" newsletter this morning promises restaurants "Beyond the City Limits" where diners can eat al fresco. We thought we might find a gem or two to highlight in our own Stuff to Eat in the Suburbs series, but alas. It turns out that Yelp's editors just don't have a map. Of the nine restaurants listed, only four of them are actually outside of Boston's city limits, in Cambridge and Salem. The other five are located in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Allston, and Dorchester: all parts of Boston last time we checked. Kids, don't go to journalism school; the people who write this drek are going to be your editors when all the newspapers are gone.

-- Police found a 37-year-old man stabbed to death in a South End room Wednesday night after responding to a call from a woman who had found his body. No arrests have been made, and police have not speculated about the motive of the killing. [BPDNews]

The Suffolk County DA has just reported that James A. Walker, the alleged Dorchester gang banger known as "Gunna," was arrested today on charges that he murdered a man during a gang beef in 2006. Walker, whom prosecutors suspect of leading the notorious Lucerne Street Doggz street gang, was doing time for a 2007 drug bust when he was arrested this afternoon. He had violated his probation in January when he was caught with a gun in his car.

-- A man was shot dead in the South End during the afternoon on Independence Day. The 24-year-old was killed by multiple gunshot wounds on Shawmut Ave., near Ball Park. No arrests have been made. [BPDNews]

The Boston police Twitter feed warns that a SWAT team has set up at 2 Dudley Terrace, off the 700 block of Dudley Street, in Dorchester, to manage a "barricaded suspect."

-- Boston cops charged 50-year-old convicted sex offender Fitzhugh Newton with the February rape and murder of a Dorchester woman. Newton had previously been convicted of assault with intent to commit rape and gross lewdness in different incidents. [Universal Hub]

-- Undercover Boston cops busted a Newton man who allegedly tried to sell them $200,000 worth of black tar heroin in the South End on Friday. The man, 34-year-old Amando Avila, faces multiple drugs charges. [BPDNews]

--"Clark Rockefeller" was sentenced to 4-5 years in prison just two hours after his conviction on kidnapping and assault charges. Judge Frank Gaziano's sentence matched what prosecutors recommended. [Globe]

-- Police have made a second arrest in connection with the May 18 shooting of Justin Cosby outside of a Harvard dorm. Blayn Jiggetts, a 19-year-old New Yorker, was arrested in Harlem yesterday just before midnight. Jiggetts joins Jabrai Jordan Copney, also of New York, in prison for the crime, which police say was a "botched 'drug rip'" that left Cosby dead from a gunshot to the gut and $1,000 cash and a bag of marijuana laying nearby. Police still seek a third suspect. [Globe]

You remember watching “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” when you were a kid. You were totally jealous of Charlie - because, really, who wouldn’t want to live in a chocolate factory? It’s a pretty sweet deal (sorry, couldn’t resist that one…).

-- A man was stabbed in front of a house on Howland Street in Dorchester this morning shortly before 10 a.m. Toddlers in the building may have seen the violence. [Herald]

• Governor Deval Patrick has called out MBTA "driver" Aiden Quinn and says he should talk to investigators about last week's crash he allegedly caused. [Boston Herald]

-- An armed robbery last night in Mattapan turned into a wild chase, complete with flying slugs, courtesy of a pair of plainsclothes policemen who were "fearing for their safety." Nobody was injured during the shooting, and cops eventually caught up with two of the three suspects, who now face multiple charges. [Herald]

-- A 17-year-old boy was shot to death in broad daylight outside a home at 70 Tonawanda St. in Dorchester. A neighbor said that the shooter fled in a silver SUV, but no arrests have been made and no motives have been advanced in the killing. [BPDNews, Herald]