Public Safety
With a renewed focus on expanding and developing historically underserved areas of Boston while also identifying zones for increased commercial growth, the mayor’s administration last week rolled out a draft report for its Imagine Boston 2030 plan.
The... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was found shot around 2:55 a.m. on Saturday at 195 Normandy St. and that he was declared dead at the scene.
The man was in his late 20s, police say.
Julian Troche, 24, was ordered held without bail today on charges he fatally shot Andrew Flonory at a party on Astoria Street in Mattapan on June 18, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Flonory, who had survived a 2010 murder attempt,... Read more
The tollbooth demolition and road reconstruction project on the Massachusetts Turnpike may affect travel plans for some of the nearly 1 million Bay Staters expected to hit the roads this Thanksgiving holiday. As local highways swell, road work will... Read more
The imprisonment rate of residents of Boston’s communities of color – areas of Dorchester and Roxbury – are consistently double and triple the city average, according to a recently released Boston Foundation report titled “The Geography of Incarceration... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports two men in their late 20s were shot outside 51 Ames St. around 4:45 p.m. on Saturday.
One man was pronounced dead not long after his arrival at a local hospital. The other victim, shot in the shoulder, is expected to... Read more
Favored by the bright fall foliage and fresh plantings, Department of Conservation and Recreation managers gave elected officials and reporters a tour of the 1.3-mile Neponset River Greenway extension last Thursday morning, offering an update on the... Read more
Three people who got into an argument with Chaz Burton at a Mattapan party in March began punching him and when that wasn't enough, pulled wooden stakes out of the ground with which to beat him before one of them took out a gun and shot Burton in the... Read more
The illegal rooming house occupied by several moderate-to-high-risk sex offenders on Milton Avenue in Dorchester was the subject of intense discussion at a neighborhood meeting last week. While community members sought to understand why they were not... Read more
A state plan to beautify and fortify Morrissey Boulevard is getting both up and down reactions from neighborhood residents who’ve studied the conceptual designs, according to a Reporter look at public comments submitted to the Department of Conservation... Read more
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