Public Safety
Major Boston property owners may want to double-check that their snow-blowers are in working order as the city could as soon as next week receive the authority to impose much steeper fines for those who fail to keep their sidewalks free of snow.
Rep. Dan... Read more
Going into the New Year’s weekend, homicides in Boston had jumped to 46 over the 2015 count of 38, according to figures issued by the Boston Police Department, which also noted that overall measures of major crimes were down across the neighborhood.
Capt... Read more
Here’s a summary of the headlines and story lines you can expect to see in our pages in the coming months:
All Eyes on Columbia Point
Two of the biggest headlines in 2017 could be generated by the machinations of the powerful interests still circling... Read more
Boston Police say they have made two arrests in connection with a string of brazen auto-part theft ring that has hit hard in recent months across the Greater Boston region, including Dorchester.
Capt. Tim Connolly, commander of the Area C-11 Boston Police... Read more
Boston Police are investigating several armed robberies and what they are calling “a rash” of parcel thefts in Dorchester’s C-11 district, moving Capt. Tim Connolly, the district commander, to warn residents against leaving packages out in the open or in... Read more
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as the top federal prosecutor in the district of Massachusetts, will leave her post in three weeks, clearing the way for President-elect Donald Trump to name a new U.S. attorney.... Read more
Elba Morales, 47, of 7 Fayston St., was arrested Tuesday after she allegedly stabbed her neighbor to death around 12:50 a.m. on Tuesday.
The victim— Sasha Morris, 34— was taken to Boston Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. At her arraignment... Read more
A Mattapan man had bail set at $50,000 and his alleged female accomplice had bail set at $25,000 at their arraignment Monday on charges they held up a Papa John's delivery person at gunpoint and then threatened her and her family members with death if she... Read more
As Shawn Borden vacuumed out his minivan on Dorchester Avenue on a warm October evening, three men slowly drove by him in a rented black Ford Fusion. Ten minutes later, they drove by him once more. And then, Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports arresting three men on murder charges for the shooting death of Shawn Borden, 41, shortly before 6 p.m. on Oct. 11 on Dorchester Avenue at Dix Street.
Borden is survived by his mother, Barbara, a civilian employee of... Read more
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