Public Safety
The Boston Fire Department reports investigators are still trying to figure out what sparked a two-alarm fire that damaged three addresses on Dean Street in Dorchester, displacing nine residents and sending two firefighters to the hospital.
The fire,... Read more
The FBI reports the arrest of a Dorchester woman in connection with a string of recent bank robberies across Boston, including two in Dorchester.
Johnna P. Quish, 45, was arrested around 2 p.m. in Danvers on Monday by member's of the FBI's Bank Robbery... Read more
Suspected bank robberJust hours after the FBI released surveillance images showing the female suspect in a string of bank robberies in Dorchester in recent weeks, the feds have a Dot woman in custody. She's not yet been charged with the local hold-ups,... Read more
Two Dorchester residents were arraigned Wednesday on coke trafficking charges after officials say they intercepted more than six pounds of the drug in packages mailed to them and an accomplice from California.
Robert Conley, 46, was ordered held in lieu... Read more
During budget deliberations that stretched to midnight last Wednesday, House lawmakers added $1.7 million for youth jobs and $4 million for youth violence prevention programs.
“It put us in better shape than we were last year coming out of the House,” Lew... Read more
A Suffolk County Grand Jury has indicted a former Boston man in the Nov. 2011 double-murder of two Haitian-American sisters who were gunned down in their Dorchester apartment last November. The suspect, Jean Weevins Janvier, 30, has been on the run since... Read more
City Hall is teaming up with residents and merchants for a reinvigorated effort to reshape the Blue Hill Avenue corridor. Mayor Menino’s Neighborhood Response Team is working with local groups in an attempt to root out crime in the area and find out what... Read more
A man was found shot in the chest around 4:15 p.m. by Boston Police officers, who are looking for a white Nissan that may have fled the scene.
The Boston Police Department reports three men sitting in a car on Clarkwood Street at Norfolk Street were shot Monday night.
All three, 24, 26 and 28, were taken to local hospitals after the 10 p.m. incident and are expected to survive, police say.
Updated 2:45 pm April 17
A car slammed into a bridge abutment on Morrissey Boulevard near Tenean and Freeport streets around 4:30 a.m. on Monday, killing three occupants, Massachusetts State Police report. NECN reports the car rolled over before hitting... Read more
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