Roxbury News Archives

Yesterday around 4:30PM, a detail officers performing a detail at the corner of Washington and School Streets was approached by a passerby who told him that an individual was trying to steal some money and the ...

Boston Police report "a large deer" found its way to Juniper Street in Roxbury yesterday afternoon: On arrival, officers observed a large deer roaming around the backyard of 38 Juniper Street.

At approximately 8:44pm on the night of May 17, 2008, officers from District B-2 responded to 12 Weaver Court in Roxbury for reports of a person shot.

More Than Just the "Finest Cuts" Delivered at Local Barbershop Yesterday evening around 6:10pm, officers arrested suspects, Bobbie D. Johnson, 37, of Dorchester, and Dwayne Mills, 35, of Roslindale , and ...

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." A s teen beauty Dominique Samuels ...

Mildred Kinds's wire sculpture "Pop Stirs Pot" was inspired by her father, who, she says, "loves to be animated in the kitchen." The 15-year-old is one of many artists, ages 6-21, who donated their work for ...

Police say a pregnant mother and her toddler daughter suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries when they were hit by a bus in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood.

Opening statements will be presented Thursday in the trial of a man accused of strangling a young Milton woman and later setting her body on fire in Franklin Park.

Jury selection was completed Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court for the murder trial of Rodrick Taylor. The 36-year-old Dorchester man is charged with killing 19-year-old Dominique Samuels in April 2006 after Samuels resisted his sexual advances.

Prosecutors said Taylor later removed Samuels' body from her rented room in Roxbury and brought it to a wooded area behind the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, where he set fire to the remains. Read more

“We have to do a better job of juror utilization.”

A Harwich resident and frequent jurist at Barnstable Superior Court has been appointed to head the state committee that advises courts on all things jury related. via Cape Cod Times

“The case is under very active investigation by police”

Kim Gaines, who lives at 5 Gartland St., was arraigned today in West Roxbury District Court and charged with murder, according to the Suffolk District Attorney's office. via Boston Herald

The victim told police he had been outside his Maywood Street home speaking with a neighbor when Godley approached him and then followed him into his house, a police report states. via Boston Herald

“It's something you hear about occasionally”

Someone broke into the JB Johnson Funeral Home on Warren Street and stole a hearse, cash and embalming fluid in March, police said. via Boston Herald

“Today my thoughts are with his family and loved ones. I hope this news brings some small sense of peace as they continue to cope with their sad loss.”

Luis Gerena, a student at Charlestown Middle School, was gunned down near the basketball courts at Bromley Heath Housing Development in January 2007 as he walked home from the Jackson Square MBTA station. via Boston Herald

At about 2:40pm, on Wednesday, April 30, 2008, officers from Area A-1 responded to 138 Tremont Street for a report of a citizen occupying the sidewalk with a folding chair and shopping cart. via BPDNews.com

A man accused of strangling a young Milton woman and later setting her body on fire in Boston's Franklin Park is set to go on trial. via Berkshire Eagle

“I don't know! Whoever is on the registration!”

Yesterday, Tuesday, April 29, 2008, officers from District B-2 arrested suspect, Epheraim Rojas, 22, of Fitchburg and charged whim with Receiving Stolen Motor Vehicle, and several outstanding warrants for Using ... via BPDNews

The Transcript reports a Domino's delivery guy was held up on April 21 at Washington and LaGrange streets by "a group of masked men," at least four of whom had knives: ... The robbers reportedly stole $200 cash ... via Universal Hub