Public Safety
Sandy Arrives in Dorchester from Chris Lovett on Vimeo.
Above, Chris Lovett of Neighborhood Network News captured some of the storm damage around Dorchester. There were power outages reported yesterday and overnight in Neponset, Melville-Park and Fields... Read more
State and city officials are urging the public to hunker down today as a massive hurricane swept up the East Coast, with the potential for wind damage, power outages and coastal flooding locally over the next 24 hours. Boston Public Schools are closed... Read more
A three-alarm fire in a six-family three decker at 4 Theodore St. Saturday night sent two residents and two firefighters to the hospital.
The fire, reported at 10 p.m., started in a first-floor bedroom, but did heavy damage to the second and third floors... Read more
To the Editor:
I have four children who play on this street along with many other children who live in this neighborhood and I have to yell at cars as they fly up my street going in excess of 50 m.p.h.
Myself and many other residents of Elmer Roadhave... Read more
Opponents of a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana claimed on Monday that proponents ultimately hope to legalize the drug for all uses, but proponents accused them of using “hysteria and fear” to keep people from necessary medicine.
The two... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man in his mid 20s was found with gunshot wounds around 1:45 a.m., Monday, behind 36 Whitman St.
The man, shot twice to the chest, was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Dorchester and... Read more
The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) will close lanes on Morrissey Boulevard ithis Sunday, October 21, to accommodate the 30th Annual Boston Firefighters Road Race. The closures will begin at 9 a.m. until approximately 1 p.m.
Specifically,... Read more
A coyote spent a good part of Thursday morning sauntering around the area of Blue Hill Avenue and Walk Hill Street.
When it mosied over to the schoolyard at the Mildred Street School around 11:30 a.m., however, authorities sprung into action: Students... Read more
“I’m a very decent guy. I’m not a criminal.”
The suspect, handcuffed and surrounded by a half-dozen plainclothes Boston cops, didn’t look like a menacing sort. He could have been any middle-aged hump heading back from a long day laying down floor shine or... Read more
State Police report three suspects in a shooting at Southampton Street and Massachusetts Avenue Wednesday evening jumped into a car and tried to flee south - only to be pursued by Boston police officers and state troopers, who managed to box them in and... Read more
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