Public Safety
State and Boston Police say a man driving a stolen car from Medford sped away from a state trooper today, eventually causing a four-way crash on I-93 and then fleeing on foot into Dorchester's Port Norfolk section, where police found him hiding under... Read more
A man in his 20s was fatally shot Saturday afternoon at 23 Trull St., the Boston Police Department reports.
Police say the man was found inside the house and was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Last April, a man was found... Read more
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story listed the incorrect address on Tremlett St. The address that was raided was 33 Tremlett St.
The Boston Police Department reports arresting Paul Brown, 25, on Friday on charges he and a Randolph man tried... Read more
More than 250 people crowded into the Dudley Square Branch Library on Saturday to voice their concerns about a pair of bills that would implement a “three strikes” sentencing policy in Massachusetts, claiming the legislation will disproportionately affect... Read more
A Boston teenager was arraigned Monday in a Suffolk Superior courtroom for last October’s murder of an Adams Corner man and a subsequent double-shooting near St. Mark’s that left one man with multiple gunshot wounds.
John Graham, 17, pled not guilty to... Read more
Luis Pimentel, 18, is charged with shooting Victor Brookens to death in a fight over marijuana the teen thought the 54-year-old man was hiding in his Samoset Street apartment, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said today.
Pimentel, arrested by... Read more
A delivery guy for a Norfolk Street pizza place whose owner was murdered in 2007 came close to buying it himself on Dec. 10 when he tried to reason with a man on Capen Street who pulled a gun on him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.... Read more
ATM dumped curbside on Richmond Street on Dec. 23Richmond Street has evidently become the preferred dumping ground for ATMs thieves working towns on the South Shore. On Dec. 23, someone dumped the ATM shown above around 5 a.m. on the sidewalk outside 115... Read more
A Dorchester man turned himself in today after police put a warrant out for his arrest on animal-abuse charges related to an alleged dog-fighting ring uncovered last month on Mather Street. Tyrone Perry, 44, will be arraigned tomorrow in Dorchester... Read more
A three-alarm fire that broke out around 3 a.m. on Tuesday at 40 Westwind Rd. left an elderly man dead and sent four residents and one firefighter to the hospital, the Boston Fire Department reports. Two MBTA buses were brought in to shelter other... Read more
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