--Don't mess with the elderly in this city. They are not easy targets. A guy found that out when he tried to steal an old woman's purse at the Downtown Crossing T stop. On Wednesday night, Christopher Linehan, 29, of Dorchester, tried to snatch the purse of the unidentified 79-year-old woman. Neither party would let go of the purse, so Linehan tried dragging the woman to one of the black turnstiles. Good Samaritans started blocking......

More news has emerged about the large group of gang members who were rounded up yesterday following the shooting of a BPD officer. Shooter Antonio Franklin belonged to the Castlegate gang, not the Lucerne Street Doggz, but the mass arrest might send a message to gang members in general. The Lucerne Street Doggz were awfully busy. Their alleged crimes include 57 shootings, 6 murders, coke-dealing, and general havoc. One crime listed included robbing middle school......

--A Boston police officer got hit during a shoot-out with alleged gang members in Dorchester last night. Stephen Romano, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was hit in the chest but will survive. The shooting started when police interfaced with Antonio Franklin and Durrell Curry. Franklin shot Romano, and then a state trooper on the scene returned fire and hit Franklin, leaving him in critical condition, but Curry escaped. The Herald had a disturbing detail.......