Public Safety
A 21-year-old man was fatally shot at 163 Ruthven St. in Roxbury around 10 p.m. last Thursday (June 19), according to Boston Police who later identified the victim as Teo Vernice. He was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.... Read more
A man was shot and killed on Thursday night on a residential street near Grove Hall, police say.
Officers reponded to a call for a person shot in the area of 163 Ruthven St. in Dorchester just after 10 p.m., according to a BPD account.
A police statement... Read more
Mayor Wu and members of her cabinet— including Police Commissioner Michael Cox— gathered in Dorchester’s Mother’s Rest Park along Washington Street on Tuesday morning (May 27) to outline their strategy for securing public safety in Boston as the calendar... Read more
Boston Police are investigating two shooting incidents that occurred early Thursday morning, with one resulting in non-life threatening injuries to a male victim who was shot multiple times on a sidestreet near the B-3 police station.
A second early... Read more
Boston school officials say they will provide "a full accounting of what happened" after a school bus driver reportedly struck and killed a kindergartener last month.
Lens Arthur Joseph, a student at UP Academy Dorchester, was killed after stepping off a... Read more
Boston Police say a man was apparently shot in the head early Wednesday morning (April 30) on the 200 block of Bowdoin Street, but is expected to survive. According to a police report, the incident happened around 2:20 a.m. when officers were dispatched... Read more
An alleged member of Dorchester's Norton/Olney/Barry Gang was arrested yesterday on a federal charge of conspiracy to commit kidnapping for the February kidnapping of a man in Quincy, who was allegedly driven in his own pickup to a Saugus garage, where he... Read more
Boston Police say a woman was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a River Street house near Lower Mills early on Sunday morning.
A preliminary report from BPD says officers assigned to District B-3 — and emergency medical responders from Boston EMS—... Read more
State highway officials convened a public meeting last week to discuss changes to the road system at Kosciuszko Circle (K-Circle), Columbia Road, and Interstate 93. About 40 people turned out for the in-person discussion at Boston College High School on... Read more
The trolley rumbles up to the Ashmont/Peabody Square platform on a shallow incline before it creaks and rattles to a stop at the eastern terminal of the Mattapan Line. The doors open squeakily to let out a stream of passengers.
New riders heading toward... Read more
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