Public Safety
City councillors pressed for answers on enforcing Boston Public Schools residency requirements at a Tuesday hearing, addressing the common refrain that students are being improperly sent to Boston schools from surrounding cities and towns.
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(Updated -- Nov. 4, 11:24 a.m.)
State Police report a woman crossing Gallivan Boulevard at Milton Avenue to catch a bus was hit by a car around 8:35 p.m. on Wednesday.
The woman, 18, was rushed to Boston Medical Center in critical condition, State... Read more
Want to learn how to save someone’s life? Codman Square Health Center (CSHC), in partnership with Victory Programs, is offering free overdose training and overdose kits to the community.
The Naloxone Training will be on Thursday, November 10 from 6-8p.m.... Read more
A private transit company that already shuttles people around greater Boston during the daytime has proposed to do the same at night, in a partnership with the MBTA to provide a late-night transportation option that workers, employers and transit... Read more
After taking more than 400 site-specific sound measurements and evaluating 1,050 sound surveys from Boston residents, Erica Walker is very familiar with the city’s everyday honks, shouts, melodies, and murmurs. But the graduate student, who has been... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports it's looking for man for a purse snatching in the Florian Hall parking lot Sunday afternoon.
Police say a 75-year-old woman was going to her car around 3:30 p.m. when "a white male approached her from behind, snatched... Read more
Edgardo Clark pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter for killing Gerald Williamson outside Chung Wah on Bowdoin Street on Oct. 16, 2014, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Christine Roach then... Read more
Notoriously difficult-to-navigate Kosciuszko Circle will undergo a traffic study as part of a state commitment to an $11 million infrastructure investment in South Boston and Dorchester.
Along with improvements to Day Boulevard and Columbia Road in... Read more
An outbreak of a potentially deadly virus affecting cats has been detected in Mattapan, according to the Animal Rescue League of Boston.
"The Animal Rescue League of Boston became aware of this outbreak after responding to reports of sick cats in the... Read more
City inspectors seek entry
Community members are raising concerns about a three-decker house at the corner of Milton Avenue and Stockton Street in Dorchester where a number of moderate-to-high-risk sex offenders are living.
City and state officials are... Read more
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