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Boston police are investigating after a statue of the Virgin Mary was apparently set on fire outside of a church in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood. Police responded to a reported fire outside of St. Peter Parish on Bowdoin Street around 10 p.m. Saturday, where they found the burned statue. Fire investigators say it appears someone set fire to plastic...

The charred statue startled parishioners of St. Peter Parish on Sunday, with one man saying he was “very disturbed” by the incident.

Boston police responded to a reported fire outside of St. Peter’s Parish on Bowdoin Street around 10 p.m. Saturday, where they found the burned statue.

Three people were injured Thursday in two separate shootings during a violent night in Boston. Boston police responded around 9:30 p.m. to 75 Amory Avenue in Jamaica Plain for a shooting. A man was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police say. A few hours later around midnight, Boston EMS responded to a double shooting on Whitfield…

All three men suffered non-life threatening injuries, Boston police say.

Boston EMS responded to a shooting at Talbot Ave and Whitfield Street just after midnight.

A car was towed from a raised drawbridge in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood where it got stuck after smashing through a warning gate Wednesday, authorities said. The incident on the Morrissey Boulevard drawbridge happened about 3 p.m., while the bridge was up for boat traffic, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and Massachusetts State Police. The vehicle, which aerial...

A car crashed through a warning gate on a raised drawbridge in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, then got stuck on the bridge itself.

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….

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

Neighbors said the incident happened around 3 a.m.

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...

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…

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…

Homicide detectives are seeking the public’s help after a woman’s body was found near a golf course in the Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood about a week ago. Police said they received a call at 2:47 p.m. on June 14 for a reported body found at 17 Jewish War Veterans Drive. The body was located in the woods adjacent to the...

A 20-year-old man was arrested on several firearm and drugs charges Friday evening after allegedly attempting to shoplift from a store in Marshfield, authorities said. A local business owner alerted police around 6:12 p.m. that he had confronted a man he believed to be shoplifting from his store. The man pointed a gun at the owner, an attached laser pointing…

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…

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The body was located Sunday in the woods adjacent to the clubhouse for the William J. Devine Golf Course, which is near Franklin Park.

The shooting happened Saturday in the area of 82 Wheatland Ave. in Dorchester.