Public Safety
Orlando vigil: Bostonians gathered on City Hall Plaza on June 13 for a vigil in memory of the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Forty-nine innocent people were killed by a gunman armed with an assault rifle. Photo by Isabel Leon/Mayor’s... Read more
Two dozen community members, health advocates, and community service police officers laid out their public safety concerns and struggles from the Black Box theater in the Codman Square Health Center on Monday evening.
Community organizers Yvette Modestin... Read more
As Boston officials seek to lower speed limits on their streets, one lawmaker cautioned Tuesday that the problem they are seeking to remedy could be a symptom of a broader “crisis” in transportation infrastructure.
The Boston City Council voted... Read more
Two men in their 20s have been charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Raekwon Brown in early June near the Jeremiah E. Burke High School, according to the Suffolk County district attorney’s office.
Jonathan Aguasvivas, 23... Read more
University of Massachusetts officials have had preliminary conversations with the Kraft family and the New England Revolution about the possibility of building a soccer stadium on prime waterfront land owned by the university on the grounds of the old... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man in his 30s was fatally shot around 11:10 p.m. on Saturday at 62 Astoria St.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
A second person was also shot, but was transported to the hospital for treatment.
Police had... Read more
Gun violence cast a pall over the Codman Square Health Center community yesterday, as it gathered for the center’s annual meeting. Attorney General Maura Healey and state Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders spoke before those gathered... Read more
A former Dorchester resident wanted by the FBI and on the run for 23 years has been captured in North Carolina. The FBI says that John Joseph Hartin, 46, allegedly abused two young boys in Hyde Park back in 1993, but fled the state before he could be... Read more
Orlando massacre aftermath: Flags flew at half-mast this week outside the Codman Square Health Center.
Whether the carnage is close to home on a Dorchester street corner or in a darkened Florida dance club, there’s a maddening synergy to the gunfire that... Read more
The women who gathered in Fields Corner were bonded by violence and loss. A grandmother who had lost her grandson and five mothers who had lost their sons in shootings sat in the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute headquarters last Thursday evening to share... Read more
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