Public Safety
The Boston Police Department reports a 45-year-old man was shot to death around 4 a.m. at 396 Seaver St. He is Dorchester's 21st murder victim this year.
Murders over the past year.
Serrano ceremony: Family of Geraldo Serrano gather around a plaque in his honor last Saturday.The area outside of an Upham’s Corner bodega became a place of remembrance Saturday as neighbors and friends of the late Geraldo Serrano gathered for the... Read more
Bruce Landers: Sets a trap in Lower MillsCity and state officials are stepping up monitoring efforts this week after a sample of mosquitoes captured in Dorchester last week tested positive for West Nile Virus, a bug and bird-borne disease that can be... Read more
For the second day in a row, somebody was murdered in broad daylight on a Dorchester street.
The Boston Police Department reports a man, 26, was found with a stab wound around 12:30 p.m. today at 600 Blue Hill Ave., across from Franklin Park near Seaver... Read more
Two people were shot, one fatally, last Thursday (Aug. 12) in front of an Adams Street home across the street from Hemenway Park. Police responded to the scene at 531 Adams Street — at the corner of Lonsdale Street— just before 9:30 p.m. Two male victims... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports Terrance Small, 39, was murdered outside 2 Shafter St. this afternoon.
Police say arriving officers found the man lying in the street, with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was... Read more
A water line break outside the Lower Mills Apartments left residents in the building without fresh water, toilets or showers for several hours on Tuesday afternoon. Residents say that the rupture happened as work crews dug outside the building at 2262... Read more
A Dorchester man already being tracked as a suspected arsonist was arrested Monday on charges he set a Roslindale house on fire early Monday morning, federal and city officials say.
Jose Baez, 38, was arrested after a GPS unit surreptitiously placed on... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports arresting a Dorchester man on charges he ran a bogus charity drive in which kids stood by an intersection asking for donations - which they had no intention of actually giving to a charity.
Booking photoRodrick... Read more
A group of Savin Hill residents fed up with the prostitution and drug dealing in the area took to the streets Tuesday night in an effort to show that crime will not be tolerated in the beachside neighborhood. The effort apparently dissuaded at least one... Read more
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