Public Safety
Mayor Walsh’s proposed FY ’17 budget includes a five-year capital plan that outlines some much-needed infrastructure improvements in Dorchester and Mattapan. The plan lays out intentions, not hard and fast promises to deliver funding. But it nonetheless... Read more
City Councillor At-Large Annissa Essaibi-George and four of her colleagues heard emotional testimony on Jones Hill Tuesday evening at the second hearing of the new Committee on Homelessness, Mental Health, and Recovery at St. Mary’s Center for Women and... Read more
A helicopter equipped with radiation-sensing technology will make several low passes over the Boston Marathon route later this week to measure naturally occurring background radiation ahead of the 120th Boston Marathon next week.
Between Tuesday and... Read more
A Hyde Park man is charged with shooting a man over an argument he initially had nothing to do with inside the T-Mobile store on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square Wednesday afternoon, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Saquan Gaul,... Read more
Two home rule petitions – extending the term of office for Boston city councillors and limiting candidates to running for a single office at a time – were voted through at the council meeting on Wednesday.
District 3 Councillor Frank Baker has proposed... Read more
Charbonnier-Dever Memorial plannedRep. Dan Hunt sponsored legislation – signed into law last November – that will create a permanent memorial to two fallen law enforcement heroes from Dorchester: State Trooper Mark S. Charbonnier and Deputy Sheriff Sgt.... Read more
(Updated, Wed., April 6)- There is a new commander on watch in Dorchester's Area C-11 police district.
Capt. Tim Connolly assumed command at the Gibson Street station house effective Monday, April 4. He replaces Capt. Richard Sexton, who has been in... Read more
Authorities released video footage today that shows a man pacing around outside Who's on First bar before a deadly shooting that left a 30 year-old innocent bystander dead last November. Boston Police need help identifying the man, who is shown wearing a... Read more
A Dorchester man who allegedly robbed the Meetinghouse Bank in Lower Mills in January was indicted for the crime on Monday, according to Attorney General Maura Healey's office. Hendrick Davis, 33, will be arraigned at a later date in Suffolk Superior... Read more
About a hundred community members got their first look at the proposed Morrissey Boulevard revamp at a Department of Conservation and Recreation public meeting on Monday night at the Leahy Holloran Community Center where DCR officials laid out their top... Read more
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