Public Safety
Firefighters had to lay several hundred feet of hose Wednesday night to battle a brush fire along the Neponset River in Lower Mills.
The brush fire, reported around 7:15 p.m., consumed brush behind Ventua Street, took firefighters from six engine... Read more
A Dorchester man was charged with stabbing his elderly downstairs neighbor to death early this morning.
Tu Nguyen, 28, of 45 Codman Hill Ave. was ordered to Bridgewater for 20 days of observation at his arraignment in Dorchester District Court, the... Read more
Keisha Gilmore, 25, was found with a gunshot wound to the head in a car outside 26 Alabama St. around 9 p.m. on Sunday. She was rushed to a local hospital, but died, Boston Police report.
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact homicide... Read more
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire called in around 5:45 a.m on Monday at 28 Harvard Ave. sent a 13-year-old boy to Massachusetts General Hospital with burns.
Five firefighters were also taken to the hospital, one with facial injuries, one with a... Read more
A bouncer at Ups and Downs was stabbed in the leg trying to break up a fight that sent six other people to the hospital with stab wounds as well, Boston Police report.
The bouncer was taken to Boston Medical Center in critical condition with a life-... Read more
The Boston Police Department charges Morgado Veiga, 19, tried to hold up two people in rapid succession yesterday afternoon but was successfully turned away by both.
Veiga, police say, first showed a gun to a woman walking in the area of Sudan and Sydney... Read more
Boston Police arrested a 19 year-old Dorchester man on armed robbery charges last evening in Savin Hill after the suspect allegedly accosted two people at gunpoint in back-to-back incidents around 5 p.m. Neither victim was hurt in the stick-up attempts... Read more
Missing girl in Grove Hall areaBoston Police are circulating a "be on the lookout" flyer for a 15 year-old Roxbury girl who ran away from a group home and is believed to be in the Roxbury or Dorchester area. Danier Fitzpatrick is described as 5'3", 125... Read more
Neighbors at a home in Port Norfolk returned home at mid-day on Tuesday (Feb. 7) to find that someone had broken into their home, stealing laptops, construction equipment and a safe.
Boston Police were called to the scene at 3 Port Norfolk Street at about... Read more
A Boston cop is being hailed as a hero after he caught a distraught woman as she fell from the roof of a house in Dorchester on Wednesday morning. Officer Robert Robichaud was one of several B-3 police officers who were called to Wilbert Road at 3:45 on... Read more
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