Somerville News

Massachusetts requires drivers to buckle up, but police can only ticket motorists if they pull them over for something else.

Overall, the budget represents a $4.98 million decrease from the prior year's spending plan.

Officer James Holder was at a Charlestown construction site around 4:20 p.m. when he spotted the suspected getaway car in an East Cambridge Savings robbery earlier in the day.

Three suspects are under arrest after a mid-afternoon bank robbery in Somerville.

Boston police captured a man allegedly breaking into a second floor Jamaica Plain apartment while his pants were waiting for him in the backyard.

Three suspected bank robbers were arrested Tuesday night. James Rigano, 42, of Malden, Terry Dunnels, Jr., 29, of Cambridge, and Eric Leonard, 20, of Everett were arrested and turned over to Somerville Police who then charged them with bank robbery.

Boston police officers are searching for a man suspected in a string of robberies.

" 6/23/09 at1:35 AM. The Tedeschi's at 321 Broadway was robbed at gunpoint by a BM .

KinoDance, based in Somerville, is a multimedia performance collective that crafts various projects using elements of film, sculpture and performance.

Eyes alert, camera inside his backpack, dressed for his job as a custodian in paint-stained jeans and zip-up sweatshirt, John Beattie emerges from the Park Street subway station at 5:35 a.m. on a cool, overcast Monday and glances at the steeple atop the Park Street Church.

Police say Timothy Ellis of Somerville splashed through a puddle Friday morning, drenching people waiting for a bus on Tremont Street.

Medford's weekly local newspaper, the Medford Transcript , is being forced to close its Medford Square office and will work out of the Somerville affiliate office.

Roy Crane was just trying to deliver a pizza and some drinks to a house on Rindge Road last Saturday.

The Massachusetts Democrat's top political aide sent an e-mail to his supporters today, inviting them to Somerville for a meeting Tuesday.

A Somerville, Mass., man is accused of stalking and trying to extort money from a Wilton man who once employed him, according to police and court records.

Prospective home buyer Jessica Doctoroff stands on the porch of a condominium for sale with her real estate agent Brenda Bremis in Somerville, Massachusetts April 2, 2009.

Police arrested a Somerville, Mass., man after he led them on a brief pursuit on Interstate 93 and then crashed his motorcycle into a car, police said.

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced that the "Summertime in Somerville" season will kick off for 2009 on Saturday, June 27th with the annual Family Fun Day at Trum Field, followed by the Independence Day Fireworks celebration on Thursday, July 2nd.

Massachusetts School Building Authority Moves ESCS into Feasibility Study Category; Curtatone Announces Membership of Six-member Advisory Panel SOMERVILLE Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone today announced that the Massachusetts School Building Authority Board of Directors voted at its June 3rd meeting to designate the East Somerville Community School an ...

Layoff notices went out June 5 in Somerville, the mayor's office announced, eliminating 24 of the city's 875 nonschool positions and saving $1.17 million.