Public Safety
A new WBUR-Dorchester Reporter-The Boston Foundation poll shows a majority of Boston voters think the conditions on the MBTA are generally safe. But many say there is room for improvement after a series of recent accidents.
In just the past five weeks,... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was stabbed on Virginia Road near Dudley Street around 6:40 p.m. on Sunday.
He was taken to a local hospital, where he died.
The owners of Macumba Latina on River Street in Mattapan Square say they have stopped Thursday-night events that were heavily promoted in Brockton following a July incident in which River Street was shut by knots of people throwing punches at each other... Read more
The second car of a slow-moving, six-car Red Line train derailed on Tuesday morning. A T spokesman said the car on the southbound train derailed at Broadway Station at about 9:45 a.m. "and made contact with the edge of the platform."
There were no... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a woman and a man were shot at 240 Westview St. in the Franklin Field development around 9 p.m. on Saturday
Both were taken to local hospitals. The woman died, the man is in stable condition, police said.
There was a... Read more
Editor's Note: Mr. Filipi was reportedly located by BPD on Mon., Sept. 20.
The Boston Police Department issued an appeal to the public to help locate a 78-year-old man who was last seen on Granite Avenue on Saturday morning.
In a post at BPDNews.com,... Read more
State workers over the weekend demolished rusted stairs which were located near the JFK/UMass MBTA station and the focus of a death investigation.
David K. Jones, a Boston University professor, fell to his death from the stairs on Saturday, Sept. 11.... Read more
Boston police on Wednesday recovered a firearm and arrested a student at the Community Academy of Science and Health (CASH) high school in Fields Corner.
The student allegedly brought a stolen firearm into the school. The incident, which occurred less... Read more
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled Tuesday that Boston police officers did nothing wrong when they searched a man walking through Dorchester's Clam Point early one morning right after a nearby gas station had been robbed at gunpoint, so prosecutors can... Read more
Two murdered in separate incidents on Saturday
The victim in a fatal stabbing on Saturday morning near Franklin Park has been identified as a 17-year-old boy. Boston Police have issued an arrest warrant for Omara Shears, a 44-year-old Boston man whom they... Read more
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