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A mother and daughter trying to get into a Boston school to confront a student last week were arrested on assault charges, officials said Monday. The incident prompted a lockdown at the school. The pair, 31 and 14 years old, assaulted police officers when they tried to get into South Boston’s Excel High School at about 1:30 p.m. Friday, according…

Three police officers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, have been placed on paid administrative leave within the last two weeks. According to Nestor Castillo, communications officer for the office of Mayor Brian De Peña, one officer was arrested and charged by a different department. Captain Maurice Aguiler of the Lawrence Police Department was placed on leave Aug. 25, Castillo said. Detectives Shaun…

The Lawrence Police Department has placed multiple officers on paid administrative leave since late August.

A woman was arrested Tuesday after allegedly assaulting a woman who’d told her to “shut up” on an MBTA bus in Boston. The attack on the bus, near the Prudential Center, was reported about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the MBTA Transit Police. The person who was attacked had scrapes and swelling on her face. She had been talking...

NYC man charged in the brutal sucker punch attack outside a Bronx restaurant. Chris Jose reports.

Former 49ers running back Frank Gore has been charged with simple assault, Atlantic City, N.J., police announced Tuesday, stemming from a domestic violence incident.

A man wanted on suspicion of fraud in Rhode Island was arrested on the MBTA Green Line in Boston Thursday after allegedly hugging and kissing a stranger on her cheeks Thursday, police said. When officers took the man, Emir Ikanovic, off the trolley at Park Street Station Thursday afternoon, he asked what he did wrong, according to the MBTA Transit…

A man was arrested last week after threatening an MBTA bus driver for driving too slowly in Somerville, Massachusetts, police said.

A group of teenagers attacked a cab driver with a hammer and spit on him at an MBTA train station in Boston Thursday night after breaking some Red Line train car windows, police said. Two of the teenagers were arrested at the station and a third has been identified, MBTA Transit Police said Friday. The incident began about 10:45 p.m….

A man was punched in the face, then hit with his own shoe, by a stranger at Back Bay Station in Boston Sunday night, MBTA Transit Police said Monday. The suspected attacker was arrested at the station, police said. Oscar Lyle, a 55-year-old from Mattapan, was already wanted on suspicion of assault and battery on a police officer, as well…

A 40-year-old Staten Island man has been arrested for allegedly punching an umpire at a Little League baseball game in New Jersey earlier this month, leaving the 72-year-old bleeding from the face, prosecutors said.

Police are asking for help in identifying a person suspected to be involved in an aggravated assault that happened during a Celtics Game 4 watch party last week, the Boston Police Department said Friday. The assault occurred around 11:30 p.m. on Friday, June 10, near Copley Square. The suspect has brown hair and at the time was seen wearing a…

British prosecutors say they have authorized police to charge former film producer Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996.

A 4-year-old child was assaulted at an MBTA station in Boston Friday evening, transit police announced. According to MBTA transit police, while waiting on the westbound platform of the Green Line at the Park Street station around 7:30 p.m., the child was indecently assaulted by an older man. Immediately following the incident, the mother of the child confronted the man…

Video from Dave Chappelle’s Hollywood Bowl standup shows the moment attacker Isaiah Lee climbed onstage and tackled the comedian. Watch the footage here.

Reports of assault, harassment and vandalism against Jewish people remain at an historic high in Massachusetts.

Antisemitic incidents increased at a higher rate in New England than the rest of the country last year, with Massachusetts ranking as the worst offender. The Anti-Defamation League released its annual audit of antisemitic incidents Tuesday, which compiled reports of assaults, harassment and vandalism against Jewish people in 2021. The 42% spike in New England outpaced a 34% increase nationwide. Of…

A man wanted for allegedly assaulting two women within a quarter of a mile of one another in Brighton earlier this week has been arrested, police announced. Boston police said they responded around 5:37 p.m. Friday to the area of Quint Avenue in Brighton after they received several 911 calls reporting a suspicious person that matched the description and images…

Police arrested Ogonna Chukwudaalu Ofoma, 29, of Allentown, PA, in the area of 76 Quint Avenue, Brighton.

Boston police are looking for a man accused of assaulting two women within a quarter of a mile of one another in Brighton earlier this week.