Roxbury News

A Roxbury woman who allegedly threatened to press charges against a lawyer who brushed her with his car unless he gave her $7,000 for breast enhancement surgery has been arraigned on extortion charges, prosecutors said.

A West Roxbury resident was among five Massport employees indicted on Tuesday for their involvement in an alleged bribery scheme at Logan Airport's cab stands.

At about 1:25am on Wednesday May 15, 2013 officers and detectives from District responded to 43 New Whitney Street, Roxbury for a home invasion.

For champions of the "new Boston" - younger, more diverse - there was a moment of real anxiety a few weeks after Mayor Thomas Menino announced he would not seek re-election. The early slate of candidates to replace him looked a lot like the old Boston, after all: white, male and with plenty of experience in politics.

On a rainy afternoon in early April at Boston's largest mosque, the sheikh in the seersucker suit was in his office, offering comfort and advice.

At about, 2:26 AM, Saturday, May 11, 2013, officers from district B-2 responded to a radio call for a person stabbed in the area of 2343 Washington St Roxbury.

Authorities said the 12-year-old was struck outside a fire station while crossing Cambridge Street in the city's Allston neighborhood at about 6:50 a.m. Thursday.

Recently, Orchard Gardens, a public K-8 school in Roxbury, MA, has been in the news.

At about 4:35pm, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, officers from District B-2 responded to a radio call for a person stabbed in the area of 530 Blue Hill Ave.

At about 1:30pm, on Friday, May 3, 2013, officers from District B-2 responded to a call for a person or persons shot in the area of 416 Warren Street .

Three years after passage of a major education reform bill, elected officials, school administrators and education advocates urged lawmakers Tuesday to pass additional changes to improve still-struggling schools with longer school days, more management flexibility and expanded access to charter schools.

The gun felt good in Antonio Stroud's hands. He looked at the small, black object and knew he was prepared to use it, if necessary.

This is a country in which the drive to make standardized testing more important and to assess teachers on the basis of those tests, no matter how flawed they are, is so strong that New York tried to make a boy take a standardized test while he was in the hospital getting ready for brain surgery and Florida law is requiring a boy born with only a ... (more)

At about, 12:43 AM, Friday, May 03, 2013, officers from district B-2 responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area of 41 Prentiss Street, Roxbury.

Bott was the sixth principal in seven years when he took the job at Orchard Gardens, a failing K-8 school in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

A U.S. Federal District Court has frozen the assets of Steven Palladino and his company, Viking Financial Group, in the latest ripple in an alleged multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme operated out of West Roxbury.

The company will purchase the property for $52 million from Boston Land Development.

At about, 7:52 PM, Sunday, April 28, 2013, officers from district B-2 responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area of 75 Wayland Street.

The following is a selective list of entries from the Medford Police log from Monday, April 22 through Thursday, April 25, 2013 and any arrests recorded during that time.

One man suffered a life-threatening injury and a second a minor wound in a shooting in Roxbury's Highland Park section tonight, Boston police said.