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City Councilor and mayoral candidate Andrea Campbell has filed an official request for information on the Boston Police Department’s investigation into reports that one of their officers might have participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Campbell filed a 17F order Tuesday, which requires the mayor to respond to any of the council’s specific requests for information. It must...

For years, Boston city leaders have vowed to diversify the police department so it looks more like the community it serves. Yet the police force is just as white as it was a decade ago, and huge barriers to diversity remain, advocates say. City officials acknowledge more work needs to be done, but insist their efforts to bring in more…

A 19-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly broke into Fenway Park early Saturday, Boston police confirm. Police say Seamus Webster, of Newburyport, made entry into the stadium around 1:40 a.m. at 4 David Ortiz Way. Webster was charged with trespassing and breaking and entering nighttime, police said. The news outlet Live Boston first reported the…

A 19-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly broke into Fenway Park early Saturday, Boston police confirm.

A New Hampshire man who is accused of fatally stabbing his brother-in-law in a downtown Boston hotel room after a night of birthday celebrations will be held without bail pending trial, officials announced Monday night. Ren Rodgers, 23, of Hollis, was arraigned Monday in Boston Municipal Court on a charge of murder, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said in…

Ren A. Rodgers, 23, of Hollis, New Hampshire, was arraigned Monday in Boston Municipal Court in connection to Saturday’s fatal stabbing outside a hotel in Boston.

A man was fatally stabbed late Saturday night near TD Garden in Boston, and a New Hampshire man has been arrested and charged with murder, police said. Just before 11:30 p.m., officers responded to a radio call for a person stabbed in the area of 280 Friend Street, which is the address for Hotel Indigo Boston Garden — just steps…

A person was critically injured Sunday afternoon after being stabbed in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, police said. Boston police responded to 1542 Dorchester Avenue just before 4 p.m. for a reported stabbing. One person was stabbed and has life-threatening injuries, police said. No arrests have been made, and no other information was immediately available. This is an active and ongoing investigation.

Boston police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting a year ago of a 62-year-old city man. Roberto Martinez-Baez, 23, was arrested Monday on a warrant out of Suffolk Superior Court on charges including murder and unlawful possession of a firearm stemming from the shooting of Andrew Farley on Feb. 7, 2020, police said in a statement posted on…

Boston police are investigating after a video was posted to social media showing two young men trespassing on the field of a closed Fenway Park. In the TikTok video, two people can be seen running onto the snow-covered diamond, pretending to throw pitches and hit balls inside Boston’s beloved ballpark. “We are on the baseball field at Fenway Park,”...

The Red Sox and Boston Police are investigating after a video posted on social media shows two young men on the field of a closed Fenway Park.

Video posted to social media shows two people running around Fenway Park. The Red Sox said in a statement they are aware of a trespassing incident and they are working with the Boston Police Department.

One person was stabbed Sunday evening in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, police said. Boston police received a call around 5:50 p.m. for a person with life-threatening injuries following a stabbing near 112 Southampton Street. Police later said the injuries were downgraded to non-life threatening and the victim is expected to survive. There was no immediate word on a suspect or possible…

Two shootings broke out in Boston overnight; one downtown outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel and another in Dorchester, officials confirmed.

Just days after he was appointed, Boston Police Commissioner Dennis White was placed on leave Thursday after domestic violence allegations from more than 20 years ago surfaced. The city has appointed an outside attorney to review the allegations against White, who’d been sworn in as Boston’s top cop on Monday, while the process that led to White’s appointment drew...

After just two days on the job, Boston’s new police commissioner has been put on leave over decades-old domestic violence allegations came to light.

The Boston Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying a person wanted in connection to the broad daylight shooting death of a 19-year-old woman last Friday in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood. Tasjahnaya Dance, of Dorchester, was shot multiple times in the middle of the day on Friday, Jan. 22, in the area of Bowdoin Avenue and Washington…

The Boston Police Department is seeking the public’s help identifying a suspect wanted in connection to a homicide investigation. Tasjahnaya Dance, 19, was shot and killed around noon on Friday, Jan. 22.

Boston Police Commissioner William Gross will retire this week, Mayor Marty Walsh announced Thursday. The city’s first Black police commissioner will be replaced by Police Superintendent Dennis White, who is currently Gross’ chief of staff.

A man shot in Boston earlier this month has died, police said Sunday. Lance Norwood, 22, of the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood, was shot at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 6 and died Thursday, police said in a statement posted on the department’s website. Officers responding to a call about a person shot on Morton Street in Dorchester found Norwood…