Neighbors at a home in Port Norfolk returned home at mid-day on Tuesday (Feb. 7) to find that someone had broken into their home, stealing laptops, construction equipment and a safe.  Read more

Jimmy Ammons, 50, was arraigned today in Dorchester District Court on charges he plunged a knife into a woman in his apartment at 884 Cummins Highway yesterday morning.

The woman, 31, is recovering today at Boston Medical Center from a single stab wound so severe a doctor told a Boston Police detective at one point he expected her to die within 20 minutes, Assistant District Attorney Megan O’Rourke told Judge Rosalind Miller. "There was a lot of blood," O'Rourke said. "It was a very gory crime scene - there was blood everywhere."  Read more

The Boston Police Department reports arresting a Randolph man on charges he shot somebody on Christmas morning, three months after he was arrested on charges he tried to shoot somebody else.  Read more

The Boston Police Department reports arresting a Greenwood Street resident who'd finally snapped at all the parents who stop in front of his driveway to pick up kids at the school across the street.

According to police, a father of a Greenwood School student pulled up in front of Henry Perry's house at 136 Greenwood St. around 3:30 p.m. yesterday.  Read more

A fire reported around 1 p.m. on Saturday in a two-family house at 25-27 Gallivan Blvd. quickly went to two alarms.

The Boston Fire Department reports the fire - just steps from the fire station at Gallivan Boulevard and Morton Street, was knocked down around 1:30 p.m., after doing roughly $300,000 in damage. The cause of the blaze, which apparently started in a second-floor bedroom, is now under investigation, the department says.

One resident was taken to a local hospital with smoke inhalation. A total of six residents are now homeless.

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 another vehicle.  Read more

The Boston Police Department reports arresting Paul Brown, 25, on Friday on charges he and a Randolph man tried to gun down two other men in an Allston apartment on Dec. 30.  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 all nine charges— including first-degree murder in the Oct. 10 shooting death of 36 year-old Ciaran Conneely— and will likely stand trial for the crimes next year.  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 Richmond Street. Boston Police later said that the ATM had been stolen overnight from a veterans post in Abington.

Today, neighbors were awoken at 3 a.m. by the familiar banging sound of a stolen ATM being dumped from a vehicle outside 113 Richmond, just one door up from the earlier incident. This time, Boston Police say the cracked-open machine had been hauled out of a Weymouth barber shop a few hours before it was dumped.  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.  Read more

The Boston Police Department was busy Monday investigating at least two shootings, two incidents of gunfire without injury and a carjacking.

At least one person was injured when two groups exchanged gunfire around 10 p.m. on Columbia Road near Geneva Avenue. One group was in a white mini-van, the other group was on foot.  Read more

The landlord of a troubled property on Savin Hill Avenue home has started the process of evicting a trio of tenants arrested after a large brawl outside the house earlier this month. But Boston’s complicated eviction process means the raucous residents are likely to remain in the apartment for at least another month and a half.  Read more

ATM dumped curbside on Richmond StreetNeighbors on Richmond Street awoke to find an ATM machine dumped curbside this morning. The machine was apparently stolen overnight and dropped off on the Lower Mills street sometime before daybreak.  Read more

A four-month old baby who was found in distress inside an apartment at the Franklin Field housing development this week has died. Boston Police say they are probing the death of Allejah Jarrett, but have not yet determined the cause and manner of her death. Police found her early Tuesday morning after someone called police to report an infant "in distress and not breathing" at 70 Ames St. There were no visible signs of trauma, according to the BPD.

Boston Police are investigating the circumstances around an apparent dog fighting ring that was uncovered on Monday night at a house near the Shawmut T station. At least one dog was found dead at the scene and 11 "pit bull-like" dogs were taken from the basement of the house after police found them crying in crates covered in urine, feces and blood. The canines are now in the custody of the Animal Rescue League as police weigh likely criminal charges against the dogs’ owner.  Read more

Boston Police have stepped up their patrols in Savin Hill this week in response to a string of high-profile incidents, including a brawl last Friday outside a troubled house on Savin Hill Ave. The extra presence seems to be paying off: On Wednesday night, a team of cops busted up an apparent drug deal that began at the corner of Dot Ave. and Savin Hill Avenue and resulted in three arrests for gun and drug charges after a traffic stop in South Boston.  Read more

It might come as a surprise, but one of the most impressive views of Boston can be found in a dim, windowless room on the seventh floor of City Hall.

From his station here in the city’s Traffic Management Center, a technician watches a dozen flat screen televisions displaying live feeds of major intersections from the Back Bay to Franklin Park, part of a growing network of more than 100 traffic cameras installed along busy roadways.  Read more

City officials announced late Wednesday that a second claim of abuse has been lodged against a Harbor Middle School teacher's assistant accused of lewd conduct with a student.

Meanwhile, the assistant, LaShawn Hill, was arrested Wednesday night on larceny and forgery charges in connection with computers stolen from the school. Police say the arrest was unrelated to the investigation into the lewd-conduct charge.  Read more

A man told Boston Police that he was robbed at gunpoint in a Dorchester Ave. parking lot last night by a man whom he just observed trying to steal a woman’s purse nearby. The incident took place on Dec. 12 at about 7 p.m. across from 1432 Dorchester Ave. near Fields Corner.

According to the police report, the victim told police was leaving work at a Dot Ave. market when he saw a man in a hooded sweatshirt attempting to steal a woman’s pocketbook. As he started dialing 9-1-1, the man says the suspect started following him as he walked into the parking lot behind 1432 Dorchester Ave. There, the thief pulled out a large black firearm and grabbed a bag that the victim was carrying, knocking him to the ground.  Read more

47-49 Savin Hill Ave: Landlord has told police he will evict tenants who were involved in brawl on Friday.(Updated, Tuesday, Dec. 13)— Five people were arrested on Friday night following a raucous street brawl outside a notorious multi-family house on Savin Hill’s main drag. Now, a top official in the Mayor's office says that the owner of the property has promised to evict the tenants who were arrested in the incident.

As many as 20 people were allegedly fighting outside of 49 Savin Hill Ave. when the first police unit rolled up around 10:45 p.m. on Friday. More than a dozen cops from district C-11 and neighboring district C-6 were needed to quell the violence and cuff the worst offenders, one of whom fled inside the six-family house that neighbors have repeatedly cited as a trouble-spot.  Read more

Above, this video released by Boston Police today warns the public of an increase in street robberies in several pockets of the city, including Savin Hill.

(Updated, Wed, Nov. 8)— A spate of robberies in Savin Hill prompted a higher-than-usual turnout for the Columbia Savin Hill Civic Association meeting on Monday night with residents packing the Cristo Rey School’s library to hear from police officials.

Capt. Richard Sexton said that while crime is down in most categories in District C-11 this year, the number of robberies is up 15 percent. He blamed some of the crime on teen-agers stealing cell phones in an attempt to raise money for a video game system and said he was devoting more resources to the area, including bike patrols. Among other considerations, he urged residents to leave their porch lights on and not to text while walking.  Read more

The Boston Police Department reports arresting two teens on charges they stole some candy at knifepoint from the Centre Market, 1660 Dorchester Ave., Friday evening.  Read more

A pair of observant Neponset residents helped District C-11 patrolmen catch a suspected burglar who was allegedly seen casing houses on Tuesday afternoon.

Officers received a 911 call from a witness who said he had observed a young teenager ringing doorbells and looking through windows on Sedalia Road around noontime on Tuesday. Approximately 90 minutes later, a 911 caller reported that a man matching that description was inspecting houses on Westglow Street and entered a fenced-in backyard at 35 Westglow St.  Read more

The Boston Police Department reports busting up a home invasion at 153 E. Cottage St. near Edward Everett Square shortly after midnight on Tuesday.

According to police, officers responding to a report of a man with a gun surrounded the house. A man tried to flee, was pursued through several backyards and then brought down after what police described as a violent struggle. Police recovered a white zip tie, two phones and a large amount of cash after subduing him at E. Cottage and Columbia Road.  Read more