-- Boston cops responding this morning to reports of trespassing teens at English High School in Jamaica Plain nabbed one trespasser, a 17-year-old from Dorchester, with a gun in his napsack, according to authorities. Four others were arrested on lesser charges. [BPDNews] -- A man held up a store in Brighton with a sawed-off shotgun in Brighton yesterday. [BPDNews] -- A man was stabbed outside of the Dorchester Courthouse Monday morning, receiving a slash to......

-- 23-year-old Daniel Harris, one of four injured during last week's shooting on Dorchester's Elder Street was held without bail today in the murder of Alexandra Gomes. Gomes' and Harris' families co-own a moving company. Harris was injured after one of his alleged victims returned fire. Prosecutors have not advanced a motive in the killing. [Herald] -- Robert Finnerty, a 26-year-old Charlestown man, pleaded not guilty today to charges that he killed a man while......

-- Boston police have a suspect in Sunday's fatal shooting on Elder Street that left one dead, four injured, and the Dorchester community in shock. The shooter who killed Alexandra "Xanda" Gomes, a 19-year-old mother, may have been one of the men injured in the shooting. No arrests have been made. [Globe] -- Three people were shot in Roxbury Sunday night. The victims, whose names and ages were not released, suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Police suspect......

-- John Connolly, the former FBI agent who worked in cahoots with legendary Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, is now a convicted murderer. A jury in Miami convicted Connolly of second-degree murder for his role in the 1982 killing of World Jai-Alai president and would-be snitch John Callahan. Hit man John Martoarano, who fired the shot that killed Callahan, had testified that it was Connolly's tip that sent him on his fatal mission. [Herald] -- Cops......

-- A man was shot dead this morning inside of the residence at 110 Greenbrier St. in Dorchester. The victim was a 24-year-old black man. No arrests have been made and no motive has been advanced, but police believe that two assailants broke into the victim's home and murdered him. 110 Greenbrier St. was the address of a man convicted in February of dealing drugs. [BPDNews] -- A brawl between teenagers turned serious October......

Obama has an auntie in Southie who lives in public housing. [Boston Globe] Dorchester crossing guard has died after being struck by a car last week. [Boston Channel] Three years after Melanie's Law: OUI arrests are up with fewer repeat offenders. [The Patriot Ledger] State legislators are meeting to discuss how to handle the looming budget crisis. [Politicker MA] The Herald offices were evacuated after a white powder was found. [Boston Globe] Eleven years......

-- Bus route 23, which runs from Ashmont in Dorchester to Ruggles in Roxbury, is no stranger to violence. Still, when Steven Phillips, a 32-year-old from Dorchester, allegedly stabbed two girls to whom he had allegedly and previously exposed himself, it might have set a new low. The latest on the case: The Suffolk County DA reports that Phillips is undergoing 20 days of psychiatric evaluation. [Globe] -- A 19-year-old man from Roxbury was charged......

-- The Dorchester offices of ACORN, the national political organization, were found ransacked this morning. The offices, which are located on Adams St. in Fields Corner, were looted of three desktop computers as well as other equipment. Employees of the group believe that the burglary might be the result of the national political ire that presidential candidate John McCain has whipped up around ACORN, whom he has accused of possibly "destroying the fabric of our......

-- Police have identified the 19-year-old man who was stabbed to death on Border St. in East Boston. Rafael Sandoval, a Chelsea man, died from a single stab wound early Sunday morning. No arrests have been made in the apparent murder, but Boston police report that eyewitnesses reported a dark-colored four-door sedan fleeing the scene. [BPDNews] -- A 50-year-old Worcester man was allegedly caught inside a car parked on Yawkey Way last night, boosting a......

-- Two men were found shot last night in Dorchester, one fatally. The dead man was found slumped over a steering wheel; the other victim was found outside the car, with a gunshot wound to the head that sent him to Boston Medical Center, where he remains in critical condition. Both victims were in their 40s. [BPDNews, Globe] -- In an unrelated incident, police found two men, also in their 40s, suffering from multiple gunshot......

-- Christian Morgenson, a 61-year-old man, shot and killed his wife Sunday night before calling the police and killing himself, according to authorities. In a chilling twist, Morgenson posted a notice of the couple's deaths on his website prior to carrying out the apparent murder-suicide. [Globe] -- A man was arrested outside of the Jackson Square T station in Jamaica Plain Sunday night after he allegedly pulled a knife on a passerby and tried to......

-- Boston police arrested a 30-year-old Dorchester man yesterday for the afternoon shooting of a man in the South End. The victim suffered life-threatening injuries. [BPDNews] -- A New Hampshire man was beaten to a bloody pulp by alleged friends in Somerville, authorities say. [Somerville Journal] -- A pair of teenage robbers pulled off a nighttime robbery at a gas station using a stun gun, according to police. One teen, a 19-year-old from Somerville, has......

-- A naked man was arrested on two counts of breaking and entering and two counts of indecent exposure after two alleged South End break-ins Saturday morning. According to police, "when asked if it was his birthday, the suspect stated, 'No.'" [BPDNews] -- A kidnapping in Dorchester was reported early Monday morning and quickly solved with the help of K-9 units, according to authorities. [BPDNews] -- A Dorchester man was linked to the 2006 murder......

-- A 25-year-old man man was shot dead yesterday afternoon on King St. in Dorchester, the victim of multiple gunshot wounds, according to Boston police. The victim has not been identified and no arrests have been made. [BPDNews] -- Whitey Bulger's hit man says he would have popped Whitey, had he known that the mob boss was also an FBI informant. John Martorano, who has been convicted of 20 gangland killings, gave candid testimony yesterday......

-- A road rage altercation ended in bloodshed in a Union Square parking lot when a 35-year-old Jamaica Plain man was stabbed by an unknown assailant who escaped the scene. The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries. [Somerville Journal] -- A 28-year-old woman was assaulted on Sacramento Street near Porter Square as she jogged down the stairs of a pedestrian underpass. [Somerville Journal] -- Boston police nabbed a pair of male alleged common nightwalkers during a vice......

-- A 35-year-old man was shot this morning near Dorchester High, putting the school into lock down. The man's wounds were non-life-threatening, and no arrests have been made. [Herald] -- The bandits who stole the century old metal trim from the Longfellow Bridge have been caught, police say. The metal, 2,300 feet of it, had been removed from the bridge during renovations and stored in a Stoneham warehouse, where it was stolen. Authorities discovered the......

-- This morning, a 17-year-old was shot outside of the Ashmont MBTA station in Dorchester, which capped a series of three shootings in which five were injured. Police say that this shooting, and the others, was not random. [BPDNews] -- The second shooting happened last night in Mattapan when a 19-year-old was shot in the chest while riding his bike. Relatives say that the victim, identified as Chris Pounds, had been on a mission to......

-- A high-caliber shooting near Donnelly field left a pair of Cambridge houses riddled by bullets. A pedestrian, who remains at large, fired a .45 caliber pistol at a moving car, according to police. [Cambridge Chronicle] -- A man suspected of shooting a teen in the knee in Union Square last Wednesday was collared by Somerville cops on Friday. The 21-year-old, whom police accuse of shooting the teen after a confrontation at a party, was......

-- The second Dorchester murder in 48 hours found a man stabbed to death yesterday afternoon in front of a home on Geneva Ave. [BPDNews] -- A man was shot last night on Algonquin St. in Dorchester. He remains in critical condition at Boston Medical Center. [BPDNews] -- A man on Gayhead St. in Jamaica Plain was pummeled with a tire iron by thugs who had been breaking into his car, according to police. [BPDNews]......

-- A car chase and gun battle ended yesterday evening in Cambridge when a man toting a .45-caliber handgun slipped out of his bullet-perforated car and into the waiting arms of police. The man was allegedly involved in a series of shootings that twisted through the streets of East Cambridge, stretching down Pine St. and up Main St. to Bishop Allen Dr. Three different crime scenes were established, and authorities believe that somebody fired upon......

-- A man suspected of being homeless was found stabbed to death in a small Dorchester park this morning. [Globe] -- After Friday's shooting on the Boston waterfront was linked to a reggae and hip-hop cruise, police feared escalated violence at this weekend's Caribbean Festival, which has seen bloodshed in the past. So, police rounded up the usual suspects before the event even started. 56 suspected gang members and alleged criminals were arrested in a......

-- Two, possibly three people were shot last night on Hendry St. in Dorchester. All three victims were hospitalized, and few details were made available by police. [Globe] -- A 17-year-old Cambridge boy was shot yesterday afternoon in a daytime drive-by shooting. The boy had been riding his bike near Donnelly Field in East Cambridge when he was shot by two men in a dark colored car, police say. [Cambridge Chronicle] -- The T is......

-- A 50-year-old Melrose man faces charges that he stuffed his pants with a bunch of road flares, told a Revere bank teller that he had a bomb, and left a 72 word note instructing her to bring a bag of money into the bank's parking lot. The note, which was TL;DR, only prompted the teller to call the cops, who scooped up Bryan Sullivan and charged him with armed assault with intent to rob,......

-- Boston police have charged three in the May killing of a South Boston man. Edward Holloman, 19, of Lynn, and Edward Mendez, 34, of Jamaica Plain were both charged with murder. Darren Hemingway, 19, of Brighton, was charged as an accessory after the fact. The men are accused of killing 27-year-old Curtis Ashford after getting into a fight on 8th Street last May. [BPDNews] -- A melee spilled out of the Middle East rock......

-- A Dorchester block party turned bloody early yesterday morning when cookouts turned to shootouts. Three were injured in the violence, aged 14-19, one critically. Police do not know what made the party turn violent, and no arrests have been made. [Globe] -- A Dorchester man used a human shield in an attempt to avoid arrest Saturday night, according to police. Jason Aparicio, 23, allegedly held a man at gunpoint and used his .45-caliber semiautomatic......

-- Late last night, Boston police found a man shot near Washington Street in Jamaica Plain. The 19-year-old was rushed to Brigham and Women's, where he remains in critical condition. No arrests have been made, and police have not suggested a motive in the shooting. [BPDNews] -- Early this morning in Dorchester, a man nearly avoided a fatal shooting, police say. The victim, who was shot at the intersection of Torrey and Oakwood Streets, suffered......

-- Michael Finos, 46, of Holliston, was arrested Saturday for allegedly raped an 11-year-old multiple times. Finos was arraigned this morning on charges including rape of a child, indecent assault and battery on a child under age 14, and disseminating obscene material to a minor. [Herald] -- Boston police found a man shot to death in his car early Saturday morning. The victim was in his thirties, and the car was parked in front of......

-- A man was found stabbed in the kitchen of a Dorchester home yesterday afternoon. The victim had been stabbed by his brother-in-law during a fight, police say. The 42-year-old suspect faces the charge of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. The victim remains at Boston Medical Center in critical condition. [BPDNews] -- Boston police conducted a massive warrant sweep today, targeting suspects with outstanding drug warrants. The operation, dubbed "Curtain Call,"......

-- Deadly violence in Boston continued unabated as a man was found shot to death in Roxbury early this morning. Police say that Alex Burgos, 22, of Boston, was shot multiple times on Ditmus Court, near the intersection of Tremont and Lenox. No motive has been advanced for the killing and no arrests have been made. [BPDNews] -- Police arrested a 20-year-old Dorchester man on charges that he shot someone late Sunday night. Police say......

-- Boston police conducted a massive crackdown on the city's gangs, arresting nearly 50 suspected offenders on Friday. The sweep included the arrest of Caiheem C. Kindell, 18, of Brockton, who is suspected in connection with the Independence Day quadruple shooting in Hyde Park. [BPDNews] -- Nevertheless, violence continued across the city. Within hours of the conclusion of the BPD sweep, a man was killed on Whittier Street in Roxbury, across the street from police......