Grand jury indicts BPD Officer O’Malley
May 20, 2026
Homicides have increased this year, but city officials say overall crime stats remain low in the city of Boston.
Dannie Kelly is a real-life Santa Claus of the city — a deliverer of Christmas trees and holiday cheer in the heart of Dorchester’s Four Corners neighborhood.
UMass Boston (UMB) reports that more in-state freshman enrolled this fall than in at least a decade, with a record number of freshman reporting to the Columbia Point campus mostly in response, officials say, to a new state funding plan, upgrades to the campus, and the quality of the institution’s educational offerings.
Boston police say a large crowd blocked a South End intersection and attacked police cruisers in the early hours of Sunday morning . The BPD report said that officers responded to the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Tremont Street at just after 2:10 a.m. where a crowd of about 100 people had gathered, with some using vehicles to block the flow of traffic through the intersection.
By Eve Zuckoff, WBUR
Frustrated Boston residents and business owners packed a South End hotel conference room last Thursday night to demand that city leaders address conditions at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.
Boston school officials said last week they will provide “a full accounting of what happened” after a school bus driver reportedly struck and killed a kindergartener last month.
