Public Safety
The Boston Police Department is seeking help to identify and capture somebody they say got out of a car at Columbia Road and Washington Street in Dorchester with a hammer and, without any provocation, bashed an elderly man in the shin around 1:50 p.m. on... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports arresting a man originally from Dorchester on charges he fatally shot a man on Danube Street in a shootout following an argument Sunday night.
Ira Grayson, 35, currently of Manchester, NH, was ordered held without bail... Read more
Boston firefighters responded to 40 Hazleton St. in Mattapan around 9 a.m. on Sunday for a fire that the Boston Fire Department reports displaced six adults and four children and sent one firefighter to the hospital with a hand injury.
The department... Read more
The Boston Fire Department reports responded to 15 Castlerock St. at 2:50 a.m. on Friday for what turned into a three-alarm fire.
The residents - four adults and two children - were evacuated safely. One cat on a ledge was rescued, but another died in the... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports arresting Nickoyan Wallace, on charges he fatally shot Ivanildo Barros, 37, of Dorchester, at 590 Park St. shortly before noon on Friday.
Wallace, 46, was arrested by gang-unit officers on Saturday, police say.... Read more
The metallic rush of steel percussion – the instrumentation of Hyde Park’s Branches Steel Orchestra – swelled as hundreds of people descended on Walker Playground on Tuesday evening for the final leg of the March for George and Justice. The rally at the... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports that two women were stabbed at 26 Taft St. in Dorchester shortly before 12:25 p.m. on Sunday.
One woman was declared dead at the scene; the second was taken to the hospital, where she died. Two children were removed... Read more
A 73-year-old woman was shot and killed while sitting on her porch on Olney Street in Dorchester on Saturday evening (April 10). Boston Police identified the victim as Delois Brown and said she was not the intended target. The shooting happened just... Read more
A woman was arraigned Monday on charges of attempted murder and reckless endangerment of a child for the way prosecutors say she abandoned her newborn son in a trash barrel outside Pat's Pizza a few doors down and not long after she gave birth to him, the... Read more
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 34 Fessenden St. around 10 p.m. on Friday for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
Firefighters were ordered out of the building after one fell through a porch. He was uninjured and continued to... Read more