Public Safety
By Mike Deehan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
BOSTON, MARCH 25, 2011….Former Boston Mayor and U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Raymond Flynn's home in South Boston was broken into and ransacked Thursday while he and his wife attended the funeral Mass in... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports an 18-year-old was fatally shot around 3:10 p.m. at Norfolk and Whitman streets.
Immediately following the shooting, police were looking for two black males spotted leaving the scene in a red truck with New York... Read more
Damante Burrell, 18, pleaded guilty to manslaughter today for the death of Fred Bing, gunned down while standing outside talking to some friends on May 13, 2009 in retaliation for another murder Bing had nothing to do with.
Burrell was sentenced to 15 to... Read more
An 18 year-old man died last night after he was gunned down on the porch of his mother's house near Uphams Corner. Neighbors say that the victim is Luis Tavares, who grew up in Cape Verde and joined his family here as a teenager.
Isaura Mendes, an anti-... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a woman crossing the street at Dorchester Avenue and Dix Street around 9 p.m. yesterday was hit by a vehicle that then kept going.
In a statement, police said, "On arrival, officers located the victim, a pedestrian,... Read more
Boston Police are looking for a woman who held up the Mt. Washington Bank branch at 305 Talbot St. around 3:20 p.m. on Friday.
She's described as white, 5'2", 18-21, wearing a tan jacket and a gray hoodie and carrying two backpacks.
The Boston Fire Department reports a three-alarm fire at 3 Robinson St. broke out shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday, March 5, did an estimated $500,000 in damage and sent one firefighter to the hospital with a shoulder injury.
None of the ten residents in... Read more
The Boston Police Department says it nabbed one of two suspects for the armed robbery of the Hess station at 710 Gallivan Blvd. shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday.
Police say Adilson Lopes, 30 of Dorchester, bought some stuff to get the clerk inside the... Read more
Lower Mills MWRA map. Click to enlarge.
Fasten your seatbelts, Lower Mills residents.
Starting next month and running into November, Washington Street, Adams Street, and River Street are scheduled to be periodically closed as part of a project of... Read more
Cherry Clinton, 29, was arraigned today on charges she stabbed Lancelot Reid, 23, to death after he had allegedly assaulted her earlier in the day in her Franklin Field apartment.
Dorchester District Court Judge Kenneth Desmond ordered that Clinton be... Read more
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