Public Safety
Boston Public School officials will get the first at-bat next week as the City Council weighs Mayor Thomas Menino's $2.4 billion fiscal 2012 budget.
A Monday hearing on the BPS budget - which comes in at $829 million - starts at 9:30 a.m. in the Iannella... Read more
A fire sparked by a second-floor short circuit displaced eight people at 83 W. Selden St. Friday morning. None were injured, but one firefighter suffered a cut hand while helping put out the fire.
A basement fire at 3 Mill St., meanwhile, broke out... Read more
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Donald Ray "Mann" Williams, 26, guilty of numerous charges, including armed assault with intent to murder, for a shooting that will require a former friend to use a wheelchair the rest of his life, the Suffolk... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man found shot in the head around 1 a.m., Wednesday, on Trull Street has died.
Police say the man was pronounced dead at Boston Medical Center. He is described as black and about 23.
Anybody with information can... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports workers opening up La Belle Capoise restaurant at 884 Morton St. this morning were surprised to hear somebody yelling for help.
Police say Frandy Jean, 17, broke into the restaurant sometime overnight and had somehow... Read more
To the Editor:
Contrary to the Reporter’s story about how well residents and city officials have received the City’s new LED lighting retrofitted into “cobrahead”-style street lights, this reception is not a shared one.
Some residents on St. Mark’s Rd.... Read more
A massive public works project that will impact Lower Mills for the rest of the year will start on Monday, according to officials with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA). Crews will begin by digging a ventilation shaft near the... Read more
An alleged gunman briefly managed to evade police Monday afternoon by removing all his clothes, but officers caught up with him after witnesses told them they'd just seen a naked guy running down the street.
JosephAccording to a Boston Police report,... Read more
Click for larger.The Boston Police Department says a man arrested Friday is responsible for a series of armed holdups of gas stations and convenience stores in Dorchester, Mattapan and Medford - with a replica firearm.
Michael Gomes, 35, was arrested... Read more
A Revere man admitted yesterday he helped kill a man who was outside talking with some friends one May night two years ago, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Abiona Sharpe, 21, was sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder... Read more
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