Public Safety
The Boston Police Department reports a man in his 20s was shot shortly after 9 p.m. on Thursday at 87 Southern Ave., near Darlington Street.
He was transported to Boston Medical Center, where he died.
Anyone with information can contact homicide... Read more
A Dorchester man charged with firing a bullet that grazed a 52-year-old woman's head as she was leaving church in Codman Square was actually aiming at two men who were arguing nearby, a prosecutor said today.
Dorchester Municipal Court Judge Serge Georges... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports arresting James Martin, 22, on charges he fired the shot that sent a woman who'd just left church to the hospital last Friday afternoon.
Police charge that Martin pulled out a gun during an argument with another man... Read more
Road trip: City Councillors Frank Baker, left, and Tim McCarthy recently visited Philadelphia to see how their transit agency cares for an aging fleet of PCC cars. Courtesy Cllr Baker's officeWith local officials continuing to push for the preservation of... Read more
A Suffolk Superior Court jury on Monday convicted Harold and Shawn Coleman of second-degree murder for the stabbing death of Christopher Borgella outside the DoubleTree Hotel on Mt. Vernon Street early on March 1, 2014, the Suffolk County District... Read more
Since Thursday, two women have been shot and a street sprayed with gunfire in blocks around Codman Square.
Around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, police responded to a report of gunfire in the area in front of Alex's Market on Talbot Avenue, near Southern Avenue... Read more
The filming of a rap video on a Dorchester cul-de-sac Wednesday evening ended with six people under arrest and the confiscation of four loaded guns, police and prosecutors say.
One man had bail set at $100,000, two others at $75,000, at their arraignments... Read more
Two major Dorchester developments, DOT Block in Glover’s Corner and the South Bay Town Center expansion, are on the agenda at the Boston Redevelopment Authority/EDIC Board monthly meeting tonight (May 12).
DOT Block, which includes 362 units of mixed-... Read more
Questions from five Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices came fast and furious last Thursday before an overflowing courtroom as appellate attorney Rosemary Scapicchio and Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Paul Linn presented arguments in... Read more
Ayanna PressleyI used to hide out in the school nurse’s office. There was rarely anything physically wrong with me.
Throughout middle school, I would feign a headache or upset stomach and get permission to visit my school nurse. At the time, I couldn’t... Read more
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