Roxbury News

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Brian Lee, 45, guilty of first-degree murder for the 2006 death of his father, Edward Lee, in his Mattapan home, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Joseph F. Perroncello, who owns a 15-room home in the Back Bay that is assessed at $5 million, owes the city $210,773 in property taxes, more than twice what he owed last year, according to a public notice posted yesterday by the Office of the Collector-Treasurer. Last year he made the Top 10 list of delinquent taxpayers for failing to pay taxes ...

Bill Bode, state commander of the Salvation Army, was waiting to greet him. "When I told him I was reporting for duty," he said, smiling, "that's when Christmas began for me." Murphy, who lives in Hingham and is a nationally prominent authority on animal welfare, has been a fan of the Sallies all of his life, beginning when he grew up in Roxbury at ...

The two were near the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Eustis Street when they were shot.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Demetrius Wardsworth , 21, for the cold-blooded killing of a man sitting on a Roxbury stoop minding his own business, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

A double shooting in Roxbury yesterday left one man with injuries believed to be life-threatening and another in serious condition, police said.

Two Dorchester men were arraigned today on charges they tried to murder a member of a rival Cape Verdean faction on Albion Street in Roxbury last night.

State Rep. Marie St. Fleur is telling supporters that should Congressman Michael Capuano win his bid for the open U.S. Senate slot, she's "very interested" in mounting a campaign for his Eighth Congressional District seat, senior Democratic sources say.

Laurence M. Adams hugged relatives after he was freed in 2004. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair in 1974.

A Boston man suspected of a fatal shooting in the city this summer has been ordered held without bail.

At about 1:30pm, on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, members of the Boston Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit located and arrested shooting suspect, Sterling Fusi, 23, of Boston .

For the second time in a year, Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the city's $33.9 million bonds, giving a "negative" outlook for the hotel development.

Codman Square Health Center will open its doors for a free H1N1 flu clinic today from 9am to 2pm for the following high risk groups identified by the Boston Public Health Commission : pregnant women; household contacts and caregivers for children younger than 6 months; healthcare and emergency medical services personnel; young people from 6 months ...

Brian Lee is representing himself in superior court. Ruth Collins said yesterday that she was so happy to see Brian Lee when he stopped by her Roxbury home for the first time in months that she invited him to return for dinner that night.

Teachers and staff members gathered in the lobby for breakfast with the headmaster at English High School in September 2007.

University's loyalists want higher academic standing following rapid growth, big outlay in president's pay Tovah Poster, a second-year law student, studied in Suffolk's Moakley Law Library on Tremont Street.

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.