Public Safety
The future of the program extending late night operation of MBTA trains and buses could be in jeopardy as state transportation officials look for ways to help solve for a massive mid-year state budget shortfall and plan for the next fiscal year's budget... Read more
Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley says officers acted properly when they fatally shot Darryl Dookhran on Dec. 7, 2013.
In a letter today to BPD Commissioner William Evans, Conley says Dookhran had opened fire on the officers - hitting one of... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports arresting Ameen Lacy, 37, on charges he held up the Tedeschi store at 187 E. Cottage St. at gunpoint early on Dec. 23.
Based in part on tips related to surveillance photo from the robbery, police say they identified... Read more
Boston 2024 and other Olympics bid supporters have made transparency a major part of their public messaging, but have released little information about the bid that helped them prevail over competitors before the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Ahead of a... Read more
Boston’s bid to secure the 2024 summer Olympic games won the US committee’s nod last Thursday— a significant victory for proponents of the idea, most notably Mayor Martin Walsh, who has become the most prominent public face of the effort. Walsh trumpeted... Read more
Natashia Tidwell, (left) a member of the city’s Community Ombudsman Oversight Panel, spoke during a public meeting on police-community relations held at St. Peter’s Teen Center. Seated at right is Eugene O’Flaherty, the Corporation Counsel for the City... Read more
Dr. J. Keith Motley
If advocates are ultimately successful in bringing the 2024 Olympic Games to Boston, Dorchester’s own Columbia Point neighborhood would likely play a major role in the event, with the former Bayside Expo Center site —owned by UMass... Read more
Details of who would pay for the facilities and the public infrastructure that would be needed for Boston to host the 2024 Olympic Games remain murky this week. Boston 2024 organizers say they will reveal more about their larger plans next Wednesday... Read more
For the second time in the last week, Boston Police successfully subdued an "aggressive" knife-wielding man on Dorchester's C-11 police district on Monday morning using "less-than-lethal" tactics.
Boston Police were called to Lithgow Street on Monday... Read more
A gunman held up a Morrissey Boulevard convenience store last Thursday and made good his escape— although his exit was not the smoothest in the annals of Boston crime.
A police report of the Jan. 8 incident says that an unknown man entered the 7/11 store... Read more