Public Safety
Dorchester residents gathered Wednesday night for a public safety meeting addressing a churn of low level crime and specifically prompted by an attack on night of Sept. 27, in which a woman on Harbor View Street was robbed and sexually assaulted at... Read more
The House on Wednesday overrode a veto from Gov. Charlie Baker on a bill that would allow retired Boston police officers to serve on details within the city, after legislators found a solution to the governor's concerns.
Baker last month vetoed a home... Read more
Public safety and ongoing development took top billing at at Monday’s monthly Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association meeting.
The civic association, in coordination with City Councillor Frank Baker’s office and Boston Police, will hold a public safety... Read more
On Saturday, October 4, hundreds of people marched up Dorchester Ave from Fields Corner to Hancock Street in protest of evictions and rent increases. Marchers who joined the Right to Remain Boston assembly demanded passage of a Just Cause Eviction... Read more
The man who murdered off-duty corrections officer Sgt. Richard Dever outside a Charlestown bar in 2005 will not receive a new trial, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.
Francis X. Lang, 41, was convicted for killing Dever, 35,... Read more
Individuals under 18 years old would be prohibited from using or operating an indoor tanning device under legislation that unanimously passed the Senate on Thursday afternoon.
Sen. James Timilty, a Walpole Democrat and sponsor of the bill (S 1994), said... Read more
Boston Police arrested a 17 year-old teenager on Monday afternoon for carrying a loaded handgun. The teen was arrested in the vicinity of Rozella and Adams streets after an officer with the Youth Violence Task Force spotted him walking and asked why he... Read more
Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday morning announced changes at the Department of Children and Families that he hopes will improve the agency's performance and simplify it mission after a series of tragic cases involving children who had interactions with the... Read more
Joseph O'Donnnell, who kept doing funerals at his family's Neponset Avenue funeral home after losing his license, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 79 fraud, embezzlement and body-disposal counts.
In exchange for pleading guilty to charges that include... Read more
A man was killed on Monday afternoon after he was struck by an inbound Braintree train at JFK-UMass station. An eyewitness at the scene told the Reporter that he saw an adult male jump in front of the train. MBTA Transit Police say that foul play "is not... Read more
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