Public Safety
Students Try to Put Brakes on Traffic Near School from Chris Lovett on Vimeo.
Parents and students at Codman Academy Public Charter School have embarked on a project to collect data about traffic speeds on Epping Street, a popular one-way, cut-through... Read more
Boston Police report that a male victim was shot in the chest this afternoon in the schoolyard of the Woodrow Wilson School on Mercier Ave. in the Ashmont/Codman Hill neighborhood of Dorchester. The condition of the victim is not yet known, but the BPD's... Read more
The Columbus Day murder of Ciaran Conneely — who was apparently accosted by a gunman as he approached the door of his Nahant Avenue apartment building on Saturday night— comes on the heels of another broad daylight outrage— the murder of 16-year-old... Read more
The body of a man in his 50s was found around 1 p.m. on Tuesday at 3 Virginia St., the Boston Police Department reports.
The man, stabbed several times, was pronounced dead at the scene, police say. He is Dorchester's 23rd murder victim this year (map).
Aftermath of the fire. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that erupted around 3 p.m. at 7-9 Boyd St. quickly went to four alarms and displaced nine residents.
Five firefighters were taken to local hospitals for treatment of minor... Read more
Community mourns: The flags of Ireland and County Galway flew outside St. Mark's Church on Dorchester Ave. this morning after the funeral Mass for murder victim Ciaran Conneely. Photo by Pat TarantinoThe murder of a 36- year-old man who was found shot to... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a 22-year-old man died after being shot repeatedly around 11:45 p.m. at Blue Hill Avenue and Babson Street.
Last week’s arrest of a substance-abuse recovery home operator who has been at the center of a recent dispute in Port Norfolk is just the latest bad turn for the so-called “sober home” community in the Commonwealth— and another sign that this budding... Read more
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Emmanuel Pina and Sandro Tavares guilty of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of a man with whom they'd had an argument and an innocent cook gunned down by an errant bullet at the now closed Ka-Carlos Bar... Read more
ClarkThe Boston Police Department reports it is looking for Kendrick Clark for the Sept. 22 shooting murder of Shawn Flores on Abbot Street.
Clark, 37, is described as 37, black, 5'5" with black hair, 215 lbs. and a heavy build.
He's on the lam, so police... Read more
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