Roxbury News Archives

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 ...

A 12-inch water main ruptured early this morning in Roxbury and caused a car-sized sinkhole that forced the closure of a busy section of Tremont Street, police said.

A Chinatown restaurant's decision to seat two separate parties at the same table early one May morning led to a mugging and beating that left one man with permanent brain damage, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office and Boston Police charge, announcing the arrest of three men and a teenager for the attack.

A group of 20 black ministers endorsed the reelection campaign of Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday, saying he was the best choice for a community eager for solutions to chronic problems such as unemployment and lack of opportunity.

A Suffolk County Superior Court Jury yesterday convicted David Copeland, 30, of first-degree murder yesterday for the July, 2008 stabbing death of John Marshall .

On Sunday, October 4, 2009, at approximately 12:15am, Boston Police Officers assigned out of Area B-2 , responded to 29 Lambert Street for multiple calls of a loud party.

"I can look at Trina's picture every single day and know that I am not the one who took her life," said a defiant Joseph Cousin, 25, who is not eligible for parole for 19 years.

Cousin objected "they never believed me," authorities said, after a jury found him guilty in the girl's 2002 killing.

Lately, there's been a push to revisit that law. Some believe it is too harsh and argue that a mandatory life sentence does not allow for the possibility that an impulsive teen killer may mature into an adult capable of understanding right and wrong.

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A Roxbury man jeopardized his shot at Father of the Year when he pleaded guilty yesterday to posing his 17-month-old daughter holding his submachine gun.