Public Safety
The Massachusetts Appeals Court on Friday upheld Charles Duncan's 12-to-15 year prison sentence for raping a woman as she was walking home from the Shawmut T stop in 2018, saying he got a fair trial.
The court did strike his conviction for kidnapping as... Read more
A 16-year-old girl was killed in a shooting on Sunday evening in Codman Square that left two other people with injuries.
According to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, the victim is Jucelena Gomes, who was found suffering from a gunshot... Read more
About 2,500 additional COVID-19 vaccine or booster shot appointments will open up next week when state-sponsored sites in Lynn, Taunton and Boston's Roxbury and Fenway neighborhoods open, the Baker administration announced Tuesday.
Vaccine and booster... Read more
A slahing inside the Macumba Latina men's room early one September morning was followed not long after by a man getting bashed in the head with a baseball bat from behind in a River Street parking lot frequently used by club patrons, police and the club's... Read more
The Boston Fire Department fire ire was showing on all three floors of 383 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester when firefighters arrived around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday.
The fire was immediately escalated to a second alarm.
By 9:11 p.m., firefighters had knocked... Read more
The Transit Police Department is seeking the public's help to find a guy who stole a high-school student's $3,000 saxophone as she waited for an outbound Red Line train at Fields Corner last month.
Police say the 16-year-old BPS student was at the Fields... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a 16-year-old student at the Henderson K-12 Inclusion School upper campus punched the principal to the ground as school let out Wednesday afternoon.
Principal Patricia Lampron, who is over 60, was unconscious when a... Read more
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
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