Public Safety
Mayor Menino has issued a heat advisory reminding residents to stay safe and healthy in today's 90 degree-plus heat. The city's 16 indoor pools will stay open until 9:30 p.m. to help residents stay cool.
“Keeping pools open later this evening will help... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports arresting a Mattapan man for a spree of violence that began with a failed holdup attempt at a Blue Hill Avenue check-cashing place and ended with him firing the gun at passersby around the corner in the Farmers Market... Read more
The lead House negotiator on an anti-crime and sentencing reform bill said on Monday that changes to mandatory minimum sentencing laws for drug offenders remain one of the last unresolved issues between the branches.
Rep. Eugene O’Flaherty, a Chelsea... Read more
A team of Boston Police and city inspectors raided a Woodrow Ave. house early this morning, seizing DJ equipment and ordering the third-floor tenant to appear in court for keeping a disorderly house and allegedly running an illegal restaurant and after-... Read more
Backers of Superintendent Carol Johnson will gather on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain to show support for her. Johnson went into damage control mode this week after the Boston Globe reported that she did not discipline a... Read more
City Councillor At-Large Ayanna Pressley issued a statement Friday, days after an elected official and the Boston Public Schools superintendent became enmeshed in controversies stemming from bad judgment and domestic violence issues. In her statement,... Read more
The alleged domestic assault and battery that led to the arrest of Rep. Carlos Henriquez (D-Dorchester) on Sunday began in the backseat of a car on a quiet street in Arlington Heights, according to a new, more detailed police report.
Henriquez will face... Read more
Boston Police are investigating an overnight break-in at the Cristo Rey-Boston high school at 100 Savin Hill Ave. that included the theft of computers and one of the school's passenger vans. The incident was discovered when the school's janitor opened the... Read more
Morrissey Blvd. Crosswalk : A busy passageway to Columbia Point could be safer, says one reader. Photo by Bill Forry
To the Editor:
The following letter was sent to the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation and dated July 7, 2012:
I’m writing... Read more
The statement, read aloud by Katherine Gonzalves at the law offices of Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten, LLP, is available below in its entirety and as prepared for delivery. She was joined by her mother and two of her attorneys.
Statement of... Read more
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