--Yesterday afternoon, a man was shot to death on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester. According to WBZ, police are looking for a bronze or gold Lexus with three black men inside. The Globe noted that this was the third fatal shooting at that address since 1990. Another person was killed in a shooting last night at 68 Cedar in Roxbury. However, details are sketchy. However, the Herald sees a glimmer of hope in the shootings--Boston went......

A bright spot after the various scary episodes on the Green Line--MBTA General Manager Dan Grabauskas has announced improvements to a few bus lines in the city effective Saturday, December 29. The improvements will affect Route 15 (Kane Square/Fields Corner--Ruggles) and Route 111 (Woodlawn/Broadway and Park--Haymarket). According to the MBTA office announcement, specifically, Route 15 service "will be extended to provide increased evening and weekend service to Bowdoin Street, Geneva Avenue and Fields Corner Station."......

-- Dorchester suffered another bloody night last night. One man is on life support after being shot multiple times in his own apartment. He suffered wounds to his head and chest and is not expected to survive. In a separate incident, a man in his 20s died this morning on Geneva Avenue from multiple stab wounds. No arrests have been made in either crime. -- A gymnastics coach turned himself in this morning after being......

--The BPD had an easy time rounding up a cell-phone robber last night because the guy had quite a sense of fashion. A woman reported that a guy wearing "plaid shorts, a black puffy vest, and a black hat" snatched her cell phone while she was on Washington Street. He sounds like a member of Parliament gone bad. That's the kind of meaty description an officer of the law remembers, and they caught him on......

Two men have been arrested for the murder of Chiara Levin in March. 34-year-old Manuel Andrade of Dorchester and 21-year-old Casimiro Barros of Roxbury will be arraigned on Monday in Dorchester District Court. A press release from the office of Suffolk DA Daniel Conley describes how the events leading up to Levin's murder unfolded: "[At the Caprice Lounge] she and her friends met Manuel Andrade and two other men. Levin and her friends went with......

Like New York City, we've got our newspaper of record. In NYC it's the Times, here it's the Globe. But neither are really any fun. The action happens on the pages of the tabs. The Herald gives us our daily dose of puns in the headlines and 108 point font to let us know what's really important. But our friends at Gothamist have pointed out that the New York Post may have one-upped the Herald......