Public Safety
Suspect.The FBI has released a surveillance photo of a man wanted for holding up the Sovereign Bank branch at 780 Gallivan Blvd. around 4:25 p.m. on Nov. 5.
The FBI describes him as a black male, medium build, about 5'7" and in his mid-30s. He carried a... Read more
Prince Hall Grand Lodge says it's tightened its policies on hall rentals after a post-dance incident in September that left one woman attacked and a police officer fearing for his safety.
Prince Hall board member Leslie Lewis told the Boston Licensing... Read more
The Boston Fire Department reports a one-alarm fire at 10 Winter St. this afternoon did roughly $30,000 in damage and displaced seven adults and two children.
The department says the blaze, on the second floor of a three-decker, started as a stove fire... Read more
A two-alarm fire that broke out shortly before 7 p.m. did an estimated $400,000 damage to a single-family home at 83 Blake St., the Boston Fire Department reports.
The department says a fireplace fire escaped the chimney and set the house's walls on fire... Read more
Somebody apparently tried to set Dorchester District Court on fire around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to Boston Police.
Police report that when officers arrived to investigate a call from the courthouse security manager, they found an incendiary... Read more
Joel "Ninety" Clay, 25, got a 15-to-17-year prison term for running a crack-distribution operation out of a vacant Sturbridge Street apartment, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
Clay was convicted and sentenced last week on charges of... Read more
A rash of street robberies around Ashmont station prompted the MBTA Transit Police to issue an advisory to their officers on Tuesday. The warning details a string of four armed and unarmed robberies targeting black teenagers over the last week.
The... Read more
Boston Police report a man shot at Bowdoin and Westville streets shortly before noon has died.
The victim, identified only as a 23-year-old black male, died at Boston Medical Center.
Police briefly locked down the John Marshall Elementary School as... Read more
A homeless man arrested at the South Bay mall on Wednesday after allegedly trying to kiss a woman waiting for her boyfriend in his car turns out to be a suspect in a 2007 attempted rape near the Brookline Village Green Line stop.
Boston Police had... Read more
Police report arresting a local teen after he allegedly pointed a loaded gun at a student waiting for a bus on Columbia Road around 7:15 a.m. and then fled when officers spotted him.
Devante M. Phillips, 17, was arrested at Dudley and Alexander streets... Read more
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