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Eight months after declaring downtown Boston’s public safety situation “urgent,” officials gathered again Thursday to measure progress — and confront persistent challenges. Representatives from numerous agencies, including Boston police, city councilors and the Downtown Boston Neighborhood Association, reconvened in...

BOSTON, MA — Boston police are seeking the public’s help to identify five suspects involved in an armed robbery that occurred at about 8:15 p.m. on Saturday in the area of 80 Marcella Street. The suspects stole a scooter during the incident, which was later found abandoned in...

hoodline.com - 10/26/2025 03:11:37 PM. Three Boston men were recently apprehended by Dartmouth Police following a series of crimes including theft and credit card fraud. The trio reportedly burglarized a vehicle, stealing a wallet and credit cards, which they subsequently used to purchase $1800 worth of Visa gift...

The Norfolk County District Attorney’s office has identified the three men who recently died within a one-month span while incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk. Their identities, released Thursday, are:. Christopher Stiles, age 36, who died on Sept. 20. Robert McNickles, age 73, who...

Roving UHub photographer Riptor snapped the box truck whose driver was in the process of doing a backup of shame, in the same Soldiers Field Drive spot as yesterday's, only the driver didn't stop in time so gave his truck a fresh haircut, with the kind of curls that are all the rage these days.

A roving UHub photographer couldn't help but notice one of ISD's new anti-rat ads on the Green Line this morning, pointing to the Boston Rat Action Plan (or BRAP, which sounds like what you might say if you saw rats like that).. But, no, we wouldn't advise picking rats up by the tail, unless you're a trained...

WEST ROXBURY, MA — Officers assigned to the Drug Control Unit arrested a suspect wanted on multiple charges Tuesday morning in the area of Willers Street and Desoto Road. Caleb Gomez, 18, of Norwood, was taken into custody at about 11:15 a.m. on an outstanding warrant issued out of West Roxbury District Court.

The man was found guilty of raping the 14-year-old victim on multiple occasions in 2020, according to prosecutors. A Brockton man originally from Cape Verde was sentenced to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl in 2020, prosecutors said. Erickson Barbosa, 32, was also...

Amy Cohen is running the New York City Marathon despite living with the painful effects of sickle cell disease.

BOSTON, MA — Two men have been arrested in connection with a September shooting in Mattapan that left one person injured. Deshawn Grayson, 26, of Boston, was arrested at about 1:52 p.m. on Tuesday in the area of 354 East Eighth Street by officers assigned to the Youth Violence Strike Force.