Public Safety
Family members of the 30-year-old man shot in Lower Mills on Tuesday evening are searching for answers.
Keldon Liverpool was shot in the head outside of the CVS on Dorchester Avenue and River Street just before 5 p.m. on Tuesday–yards from the Lower Mills... Read more
A pair of shootings on Tuesday afternoon and evening left two men with serious injuries and triggered a major police response on two ends of Dorchester Avenue.
In the first incident, 30-year-old Keldon Liverpool was shot in the head next to the CVS store... Read more
Boston Police report arresting a suspect on charges he robbed a Dorchester Ave. convenience store and shot the owner. The incident took place on Monday night around 7:30 p.m. at D&D store, 1002 Dorchester Ave. near the intersection of Sudan Street.... Read more
A man was seriously injured after being shot in the head in Lower Mills just before 5 p.m.
The young man was shot in the CVS parking lot at intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Richmond Street. The man is in critical condition, police said a press... Read more
Public and private schools in Boston circulated a message from Boston Police yesterday warning about an "uptick" in vandalism and other criminal acts by school-aged kids — and asking for increased vigilance on Halloween night. The advisory warns that... Read more
After eight years on the watch at District B-3, Capt. Joe Boyle was ready for a change of pace. The Dorchester-Mattapan precinct is now under the command of a newly minted captain, Haseeb Hosein, the third person of color appointed to a district command... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports arresting a 14-year-old and her 15-year-old friend on charges that responded to a request to leave the Codman Square McDonald's by beating the manager - and a woman who tried to protect the manager.
According to police... Read more
The advertisements for casinos are so glamorous. Sexy young people gathered around a roulette wheel dressed in ravishing clothing and oozing wealth. And the picture painted by the casino industry that wants to be in our commonwealth is of a gambling... Read more
A former Dorchester resident was sentenced to 18-20 years in state prison today after he admitted he raped a woman walking home from the Savin Hill MBTA stop on Oct. 30, 1992.
Terry Abercrombie, 52, had avoided detection until 2012, when a DNA database... Read more
A Quincy man was ordered held without bail Tuesday on charges he fatally stabbed another man in the neck outside the Chung Wah take-out place at 199 Bowdoin St. Thursday evening, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
According to... Read more