Public Safety
A 16-year-old was shot to death as he rode his bicycle on Fuller Street near Washington Street Wednesday evening, the Boston Police Department reports.
Police say they are looking for two suspects for the 7:52 p.m. shooting: "Both black males in their... Read more
A Dorchester District Court judge on Monday set bail of $500,000 for James Horton of Dorchester, 45, a seasonal Boston DPW worker who is charged with hitting two little kids on bicycles Saturday night, then fleeing the scene as one of them lay there,... Read more
In an emergency meeting convened to address the latest flare-up of violence in Bowdoin Geneva, the biggest thing attendees could agree on was that this was a long-time coming.
“We're here to have a conversation we should have had 20 years ago" Paulo De... Read more
The news that a seven-year-old boy was hit by a bullet in the buttocks and knocked off his bike on Bowdoin Street on Sunday has ratcheted up greatly what has been a simmering tension in the Bowdoin Geneva neighborhood in the last few weeks over continual... Read more
State Police report a Dorchester man suffered serious injuries yesterday when a woman from Quincy hit and drove over him as they were both traveling around Neponset Circle around 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
The victim, 46, was taken to Boston Medical Center with... Read more
The Supreme Judicial Court today overturned the first-degree murder conviction of a man a jury said shared the guilt for the two men shot to death at Ka-Carlos even though he did not pull the trigger.
The state's highest court said that Sandro Tavares... Read more
This summer, the city will work with residents and businesses to begin upgrading and beautifying Mattapan Square with $500,000 secured from a state bond bill.
“It’s not just brick and mortar. It’s something that is sustainable and that public works and... Read more
A teenager was ordered held without bail on Wednesday pending a dangerousness hearing on charges he cut up at least two cats behind an abandoned house on Mt. Everett Street.
The 17-year-old, not named because of his age, was charged with being delinquent... Read more
A group of elected officials and Port Norfolk residents, including the city’s Chris Cook and Austin Blackmon, City Councillor Frank Baker, State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, DCR Commissioner Jack Murray, Jim Lyons, Mary McCarthy, and State Rep. Dan Hunt... Read more
Tina CheryLed by Boston Medical Center, major teaching hospitals in Boston are adopting the Survivor’s Burial and Resource Guide created by Tina Chery, president and CEO of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in Fields Corner. Social workers say the book... Read more
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