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An 11-year-old boy was injured in an incident involving fireworks Tuesday night, Boston police confirmed. The victim was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The incident happened around 9:30 p.m. in the area of 110 Mercer St. No further information was immediately available.

Illegal fireworks lighting up the night sky over Boston has been keeping law enforcement busy this summer. With nearly 1,500 fireworks complaints to the Boston Police Department in the first week of June alone, Mayor Marty Walsh said last month fireworks were traumatizing residents. “Fireworks continue to be major safety and quality of life concern,” Walsh said July 2. “It’s…

With the coronavirus pandemic keeping people at home this summer, illegal sales of fireworks are expected to soar even higher than normal. But if you chose to set them off, it could cause you financial harm.

A suspect in shooting incident in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood early Sunday that left a woman dead is now in custody, according to the Boston Police Department. Police responded to a report of a person shot in the area of 37 Stonehurst Street in Dorchester around 3:10 a.m. At the scene, officers found the woman suffering from an apparent gunshot wound….

One person is dead and four others injured after a shooting incident at a Fourth of July cookout in Lynn, Massachusetts, on Saturday, the Essex District Attorney said. Police responded to the area of 134 Fayette Street Essex Street just before 10 p.m., where they found five people who had been shot, the district attorney’s office said. One of the…

Police say the woman was not the intended target of the shooting.

One man has been pronounced dead follwing a July 4 cookout shooting in Lynn.

Neighbors said the incident happened around 3 a.m.

Multiple people have been shot in separate shootings in Lynn and in Roxbury, Mass. Police are investigating.

Two people were fatally wounded in a shooting and a stabbing in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood late Friday night, police said. A person who’d been shot arrived at a hospital succumbed to their wounds, according to the Boston Police Department. In the other incident, a man was found stabbed and died after being taken to a hospital. Boston police announced...

Violence erupted in some parts of Boston Thursday, resulting in several shooting deaths.

A man was shot and killed overnight in Dorchester, according to the Boston Police Department. The shooting happened just after midnight Thursday at 113 Norfolk Street. Police found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound near Armandine Street, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Officers found ballistic evidence in the area, police said. Anyone with information about…

One man died and another is in the hospital after a shooting in Robury Tuesday night, according to police. Calls came in about the shooting around 7:30 p.m. near 14 Circut Street in Roxbury. Both men were taken to local hospitals by first responders. One man did not survive his injuries and the other man is being treated for non life-threatening injuries. ...

The homes of several members of the Boston City Council were targeted by vandals over the weekend.

The Boston City Council voted Wednesday to approve Mayor Marty Walsh’s resubmitted budget, which reallocates $12 million from police department’s overtime funds to social services. During a virtual meeting, councilors voted 8-5 in favor of passing the budget, The Boston Globe reported. “I want to thank members of the Boston City Council for passing this budget that is fiscally...

Mayor Marty Walsh’s proposed budget was approved by the Boston City Council.

With momentum growing behind efforts to reform policing across Massachusetts, an overwhelming majority of residents support the idea of licensing police and holding cops to a set of professional standards that includes a ban on the use of chokeholds, according to a new poll. The Suffolk University poll for the State House News Service, Boston Globe and others also found…

Authorities on Tuesday said they had arrested a man in connection with a stabbing in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood the previous day that left a woman in critical condition. Police said a call about a stabbing in the area of 21 Howard Street came in at 5:44 a.m. Monday. The victim was driven to Boston Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. An…

A man died in an overnight shooting in Dorchester Tuesday, police confirmed. A call came just before 2 a.m. Tuesday morning for a person shot in the area of 26 Thane Street in Dorchester, where officers found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim, suffering life threatening injuries, was transported to an area hospital where he was…

A “large quantity” of fireworks was seized by Boston police from a U-Haul van in Dorchester Friday evening, the department said, as illegal fireworks have continued to explode nightly over the city in recent weeks. Boston police were called to Dacia Street around 9:30 p.m. for a report of fireworks going off, and when they arrived, they saw several go…