Roxbury News

Gerald Hill, 47, is accused of pulling pantyhose over his face and robbing Boston Cab Dispatch Co.'s Kilmarnock Street office sometime before 9:50 a.m. yesterday along with an accomplice, according authorities.

That last hurrah for Chuck Turner might have to wait. Three days after the November 3 election, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reported that the District City Councilor from Roxbury as saying he would not run for another term.

Boston police are investigating a possible homicide on Clifford Street in Roxbury this afternoon.

Donald Shapiro said he and his family appeared before the Massachusetts Parole Board seven times from 1993 to 2006 and implored board members not to parole a man convicted of participating in two slayings by the age of 15, including the murder of Shapiro's father-in-law in a holdup shortly after the Blizzard of 1978.

Ruth Ellen Fitch has traveled worlds beyond the Harrishof Street house in Roxbury where she grew up during the fifties and sixties.

The five-bedroom Tudor-style house at 1652 Centre St. includes a 950-square-foot office legally zoned for commercial use.

Third Decade details tomorrow's Old Fashioned Roxbury Apple Festival, 1-4 p.m. at Paige Academy, 28 Highland Ave.

Boston has hundreds of food blogs, with new ones appearing every day. Of the many I read, one I've come to trust is Boston's Hidden Restaurants and its sibling Boston Restaurant News, whose author does two things especially well: documenting restaurants beyond my Boston-centric purview in the suburbs and in smaller cities and towns around New ...

The state's highest court has ordered a lower court judge to determine whether there were flaws in the process of jury selection at the trial of Dr.

The sign's still lit up, but the bakery itself is now dark. Joe Murphy says he tried, he really did.

A Taunton man was busted Monday night after allegedly stealing his girlfriend's car for several days and later threatening officers with a knife, police report.

Boston police report arresting a 21-year-old Roxbury man last night after he allegedly beat and tried to rob a patron of the thoughfuly named Boston Chinese Restaurant on Washington Street.

A District 7 community watch alert for Roxbury residents sent out late in the night tells a terrifying tale: "Two more shootings in the combat zone today.

A few days ago, a federal jury awarded Drumgold $14 million for a wrongful conviction and subsequent imprisonment in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore, back in August 1988.

A 33-year-old Roxbury woman has decided against pleading guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter in the accidental shooting death of her 8-year-old son.

He returns to court in December for a separate trial to determine if the city is liable for his wrongful conviction and more than 15 years he spent behind bars for the killing of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore, caught in gang cross fire as she sat on a Roxbury mailbox in 1988.

Share + Oct 21, 2009 3:48 pm US/Eastern Reporting Mallika Marshall, MD Boston health officials are asking the public to be patient as they outline their plans to battle the H1N1 virus.

Police arrived at a residence on Dorchester Avenue shortly after getting the call and were met by the suspect, who told them, as she was standing in front of several puddles of blood, "I did it.

Announces grants to connect the chronically homeless to permanent housing Mayor Thomas M. Menino today opened the first city-operated day center for chronically homeless residents, creating for the first time a hub of services under one roof for the long-term homeless who spend most days on the street or in the shelter system.

Award-winning court and crime reporter Laurel J. Sweet has been featured in the ABC miniseries "Boston 24/7" and the 9-11 documentary motion picture "Looking For My Brother." T hree men and a teen beat a stranger so badly they cracked his eye sockets and left him brain damaged because he refused to pay for a sitdown meal they stole from him in ...