For the third year in a row, the Boston Police have acquired and deployed social media surveillance technology without obtaining approval from the Boston City Council in apparent defiance of a 2021 ordinance requiring them to do so.
If police criminalists had found three gunshot residue particles on Keith Williams after Dawnn Jaffier crumpled to the street, a fatal gunshot wound to her head during the 2014 J’Ouvert parade, that would have been enough for prosecutors to use during Williams’s murder trial. But the expert found just two, prosecutors failed to explain to the jury why that was still enough proof of Williams’s guilt and so Williams deserves a new trial, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday.
For the third year in a row, the Boston Police have acquired and deployed social media surveillance technology without obtaining approval from the Boston City Council in apparent defiance of a 2021 ordinance requiring them to do so.
The “Light Bearer” award was presented at a recent event to support the Maura Wilkins Foundation.
Flanked by law enforcement officials, Gov. Maura Healey last Thursday (Sept. 10) accepted a slew of endorsements from public safety-aligned organizations in her bid for
Victoria Williams, who died on Sept. 7 at age 78, will be honored posthumously with a lifetime achievement award at Rogerson Communities’ Welcome Home Gala
Voter information guides will begin landing in mailboxes this week and the state’s top election official says voters should read all 88 pages because the
Congressman Stephen Lynch and UMass Boston officials on Monday this week announced $1 million in federal funding that will help restore the 50-year-old saltwater pump
After nearly two years of organizing with a focus on displacement concerns and other changes in Codman Square, the grass-roots Codman United group has issued
The governor blamed President Donald Trump for rising gas prices, citing the U.S. war with Iran.
Neighbors rejected a plan to turn site into a nail salon last spring.
The development, known as McDevitt Senior Homes, will include 36 one-bedroom apartments.
Nearly 90% of the 2,000 nurses represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East voted in
Hundreds gathered in Morningstar Baptist Church on Thursday evening (Sept. 10) to review the latest
Fresh Mediterranean flavors arrived in Dorchester last month when Thelo Mediterranean opened for diners at
A project that will create 72 new affordable apartments on Centre Street next to the
New plan keeps center-running buses, shifts bike lanes to west side of road, creates new
English High School alumni will gather at Dorchester’s Florian Hall next month for an all-class
Fifty years ago, as a young student at UMass Boston, I enrolled in Professor Connie