Public Safety
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
As students at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School began and ended their Monday this week, five days after 17-year-old Raekwon Brown, a junior at the school, was fatally shot less than a block away, they entered the tall brick building to greetings from men... Read more
A Boston Police detective and a manager at the Russell Auditorium say a man stabbed repeatedly outside the Talbot Avenue facility on May 7 was apparently attacked in revenge for a rape for which he was convicted about five years ago.
When police found the... Read more
A man was found shot to death behind a block of stores on Blue Hill Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. The unidentified victim was discovered in the area of 1186 Blue Hill Ave. just before 12:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead at the scene. The deceased man was... Read more
Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday highlighted steps being taken by law enforcement to increase security around Massachusetts and downplayed any connection between the attacker responsible for this weekend's mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub and the... Read more
The city’s inspectional services department was busy last week, cracking down on two local businesses for violations but opting to work with them to raise standards rather than take a strictly punitive approach.
On Saturday, a patron outside America’s... Read more
Boston still ranks among the state’s highest-risk communities for childhood lead poisoning, but that ranking is not due to a lack of funding, city officials say.
Since the early 1990s, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development has given Boston... Read more
Updated Thurs., June 9 at 11:15 a.m. -- A 17 year-old student was shot and killed and three other people including a woman in her late 60s were injured in a shooting on Washington Street near the Jeremiah E. Burke High School Wednesday afternoon. The... Read more
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