Public Safety
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
Boston Police have issued an alert after a pair of indecent assaults targeting women in the area of Columbia Road and Richfield Street on Wednesday morning. The assaults happened about 15 minutes apart. Anyone with any information is asked to call... Read more
The corner of Hancock Street and Payson Avenue has a dismal history that stretches back many years. District C-11 regularly reported that 33 Hancock St. was the site of more 911 calls than any other address in the district.
Whether it was called the... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was fatally shot around 10:20 p.m. at 131 Devon St., near Columbia Road, around 10:20 p.m. on Saturday.
Police found the man, shot in the chest, at 152 Stanwood St., which backs up against the property at 131... Read more
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh on Tuesday will travel to the nation's capital at the invitation of President Obama to address the White House State and Local Gun Violence Prevention Convening on steps communities can take to reduce gun violence and domestic... Read more
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