Public Safety
Lawmakers and union officials on Thursday voiced concerns about the MBTA’s plans to cut nearly 30 percent of its janitorial workforce.
Contracts awarded by the MBTA Board to SJ Services and American Building Maintenance call for a cut of 29 percent, or... Read more
A team led by a UMass Boston professor is expanding its work to restore and study conditions in Savin Hill Cove this season. The salt marsh, a part of Dorchester Bay that is bisected by Morrissey Boulevard, has some of the poorest water quality in the... Read more
The Transit Police Department reports two people were stabbed around 12:45 p.m. on the Ashmont platform at Shawmut on Wednesday, in an incident that might have started as a dispute on an Orange Line train.
Police report neither victim stuck around for... Read more
Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz remembers the funeral of 14-year-old Jaewon Martin, an honor student who was shot and killed the day before Mother’s Day in 2010 while playing on a basketball court in Jamaica Plain.
“He was doing everything right and was still lost... Read more
The MBTA’s Red Line subway service in Dorchester will be replaced with buses this weekend as the transit agency completes “necessary track and signal work.” Buses will run along Dorchester Avenue between JFK-UMass and Ashmont this Saturday and Sunday.... Read more
Earlier this month, Mayor Martin Walsh appointed William Christopher to serve as the next commissioner of the city’s Inspectional Services Department. A longtime Savin Hill resident – and a Tuttle Street neighbor of Walsh’s – Christopher, 58, is known to... Read more
A two-year-old boy reportedly managed to make his way out of his daycare center, climb four flights of stairs, and open a door leading to the roof of 131 Columbia Rd., a Four Corners apartment building, from which he fell to the ground below earlier this... Read more
An array of elected officials, including the Speaker of the House and Mayor Martin J. Walsh, issued a call to end gun violence in the B-3 police district and beyond, urging community members to do their part by alerting authorities to the location of... Read more
(Updated 3:10p.m.)— A key stretch of Dorchester Ave. between Columbia Road and Freeport Street has been re-opened to traffic at this hour. It has been closed for a period of more than an hour this afternoon after a gas main break near Ryan Playground.... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was found with multiple gunshot wounds around 1:25 p.m. on Wednesday at 742 Dudley St.
He was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
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