Public Safety
HazMat crew on Semont Rd.: Boston Firefighters spent the morning investigating an "irritant" found in the air inside 14 Semont Rd. Photo by Ed Forry
(Updated— Friday, July 8, 1:30 p.m.) — Hazardous material teams from the Boston fire and police... Read more
Boston Police Superintendent-in-Chief Daniel Linskey: Testified during Wednesday's City Council hearing. Photo by Callum BorchersThe Menino Administration explained Wednesday the discretion implied in a proposed city ordinance that would bill negligent... Read more
Butler Street apartment fire: The scene outside 68 Butler Street this morning. Photo by Ryan Whitcomb
(Updated, 9:30 a.m.) — Boston firefighters pulled an unconscious 68 year-old woman from a burning fourth-floor apartment in Lower Mills early this... Read more
The City of Boston’s new strategy of targeting so-called “problem properties” in our neighborhoods is finally taking real shape this week. A task force organized by Mayor Menino’s office will identify and pressure absentee landlords whose out-of-control... Read more
Deadly shooting on Columbia Road: Two people were shot to death in the car shown at left. Photo by Marcus DiPaola
The Boston Police Department is investigating at least twelve shootings over the holiday weekend in Dorchester and Mattapan, including a... Read more
A man who worked for a freight shipper pleaded guilty this week for his role in illegally selling prescription drugs over the Internet through a network the government says included a Bowdoin Street drugstore.
Steven Immergluck, of Aurora, Ill., made his... Read more
Shabazz Augustine: Prosecutors say his former Sydney Street residence was murder scene in '04.(Updated June 30, 5:10 p.m.) — A Dorchester man accused of suffocating a 26 year-old Malden woman to death in his Savin Hill apartment during a envy-driven... Read more
Andrew Higgins, 44, could get up to 20 years behind bars when sentenced in US District Court in October for robbing the Hyde Park Savings Bank branch on Centre Street last Nov. 13.
Higgins pleaded guilty Wednesday, the FBI reports.
According to FBI and... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports its first arrest under the city's new "Operation Kickstand" effort to crack down on dirt-bike and scooter drivers behaving badly.
Around 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, officers specifically on patrol for dirt-bike/scooter... Read more
Harambee Park rally: About 50 people turned out for a Tuesday evening rally near the scene of Monday night's shooting of a 4 year-old boy. Photo by Pat Tarantino
Monday’s shooting of a four-year-old boy at Franklin Field’s Harambee Park was an assault on... Read more
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