Public Safety
Boston still ranks among the state’s highest-risk communities for childhood lead poisoning, but that ranking is not due to a lack of funding, city officials say.
Since the early 1990s, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development has given Boston... Read more
Updated Thurs., June 9 at 11:15 a.m. -- A 17 year-old student was shot and killed and three other people including a woman in her late 60s were injured in a shooting on Washington Street near the Jeremiah E. Burke High School Wednesday afternoon. The... Read more
Boston Police have issued an alert after a pair of indecent assaults targeting women in the area of Columbia Road and Richfield Street on Wednesday morning. The assaults happened about 15 minutes apart. Anyone with any information is asked to call... Read more
The corner of Hancock Street and Payson Avenue has a dismal history that stretches back many years. District C-11 regularly reported that 33 Hancock St. was the site of more 911 calls than any other address in the district.
Whether it was called the... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was fatally shot around 10:20 p.m. at 131 Devon St., near Columbia Road, around 10:20 p.m. on Saturday.
Police found the man, shot in the chest, at 152 Stanwood St., which backs up against the property at 131... Read more
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh on Tuesday will travel to the nation's capital at the invitation of President Obama to address the White House State and Local Gun Violence Prevention Convening on steps communities can take to reduce gun violence and domestic... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man in his 20s was shot shortly after 9 p.m. on Thursday at 87 Southern Ave., near Darlington Street.
He was transported to Boston Medical Center, where he died.
Anyone with information can contact homicide... Read more
A Dorchester man charged with firing a bullet that grazed a 52-year-old woman's head as she was leaving church in Codman Square was actually aiming at two men who were arguing nearby, a prosecutor said today.
Dorchester Municipal Court Judge Serge Georges... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports arresting James Martin, 22, on charges he fired the shot that sent a woman who'd just left church to the hospital last Friday afternoon.
Police charge that Martin pulled out a gun during an argument with another man... Read more
Road trip: City Councillors Frank Baker, left, and Tim McCarthy recently visited Philadelphia to see how their transit agency cares for an aging fleet of PCC cars. Courtesy Cllr Baker's officeWith local officials continuing to push for the preservation of... Read more
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