Public Safety
Residents, Boston Police Department staff and representatives from Dorchester community organizations gathered Wednesday night for a meeting to discuss fears and response to recent criminal activity in the area. The meeting was held at the Church of God... Read more
A Dorchester Municipal Court judge today rejected arguments from lawyers for a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old that they posed no flight risk after being charged with gunning down another teen and ordered them held without bail.
In a tense courtroom,... Read more
The Boston Police Department today announced the arrest of a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old on charges they shot Jonathan Dos Santos to death as he rode a bicycle on Fuller Street Wednesday evening.
Both will be tried as adults. The Suffolk County District... Read more
WMEX host Michele McPhee was arraigned Thursday on charges she drove up I-93 while drunk and then attacked the trooper trying to arrest her.
At her arraignment in South Boston Municipal Court today, McPhee was released on personal recognizance on charges... Read more
Organizers behind Boston's bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games will announce today that Dorchester's Harambee Park would be a tennis venue for the Games should they come to Massachusetts–replacing previous plans to site the venue at Harvard University.... Read more
A 16-year-old was shot to death as he rode his bicycle on Fuller Street near Washington Street Wednesday evening, the Boston Police Department reports.
Police say they are looking for two suspects for the 7:52 p.m. shooting: "Both black males in their... Read more
A Dorchester District Court judge on Monday set bail of $500,000 for James Horton of Dorchester, 45, a seasonal Boston DPW worker who is charged with hitting two little kids on bicycles Saturday night, then fleeing the scene as one of them lay there,... Read more
In an emergency meeting convened to address the latest flare-up of violence in Bowdoin Geneva, the biggest thing attendees could agree on was that this was a long-time coming.
“We're here to have a conversation we should have had 20 years ago" Paulo De... Read more
The news that a seven-year-old boy was hit by a bullet in the buttocks and knocked off his bike on Bowdoin Street on Sunday has ratcheted up greatly what has been a simmering tension in the Bowdoin Geneva neighborhood in the last few weeks over continual... Read more
State Police report a Dorchester man suffered serious injuries yesterday when a woman from Quincy hit and drove over him as they were both traveling around Neponset Circle around 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
The victim, 46, was taken to Boston Medical Center with... Read more
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