A driver was killed in a single-car crash on I-93 South in Dorchester Sunday morning. According to State Police, the Mercedes sedan was headed southbound on I-93 shortly before 7a.m. when it traveled over the guardrail to the right side of the road just south of Exit 15. Responding officers found the driver, a 45-year-old man from Fall River, unconscious…

Carney Hospital in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood will become the nation’s first “dedicated care center” for treating patients who test positive for the new coronavirus, according to Steward Health Care. The conversion will include the creation of negative pressure patient wards, enhanced patient isolation protocols and the addition of specialty equipment needed to treat some of the disease caused by...

Carney Hospital in Dorchester has become the nation’s first “dedicated care center” to help patients impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Firefighters knocked down a raging fire in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood early Friday at a home with “extreme hoarding conditions” that made fighting the blaze difficult, officials said. One woman who lives alone was able to escape safely before heavy fire engulfed a three-family home at 77 Romsey Street. It was unclear whether she suffered any injuries. The woman, in her…

Boston fire officials say they had a difficult time battling a 3-alarm fire at a Dorchester triple decker due to “extreme hoarding conditions.”

A Boston firefighter had to be saved after becoming trapped while battling a 3-alarm fire in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood late Thursday night, officials say. “We did have to strike a mayday because we had a report that one of our members was trapped and we immediately activated our rapid intervention team,” Chief of Operations Andre Stallworth said. “We...

Two firefighters were injured battling a fire that displaced four adults and two children.

The Boston Fire Department responded around 4 a.m. Friday to 77 Romsey Street in Dorchester for heavy fire.

A man is facing charges following the murder of his mother in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Police said Thursday afternoon that a death investigation was underway on Columbia Road. Around 9:45 p.m., police confirmed that officers responded around 2:20 p.m. to find a woman dead. The woman was not immediately identified and police did not say how she died. The...

A Massachusetts man is being held without bail after being charged with the murder of his mother at her home in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.

Twenty-two-year-old Zackery Grandy will appear in court Friday to face a murder charge after his mother was found dead inside a Columbia Road home in Dorchester.

A Boston man has been charged with murder in the death of his mother.

Authorities have identified a man who was shot and killed in Dorchester late Thursday evening. The victim was Marcos Blanco of Dorchester. He was 42 years old. Officers received a call for a person shot near 89 Woodrow Avenue around 11:11 p.m. Thursday night. They found the victim in that area with an apparent gunshot wound. Blanco was brought to…

Police say the victim was 42-year-old Marcos Blanco, of Dorchester.

The shooting occurred on Washington Street in Dorchester on Saturday night.

A second teenager has been arrested in connection with Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a man in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, according to police. The 17-year-old male, from Dorchester, was arrested Wednesday night, Boston police said. The teen, who has not been publically identified, is facing charges of delinquent to wit; manslaughter, unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession of...

A man died after being wounded in a shooting in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood Wednesday, according to police and local prosecutors.

A man was arrested this weekend after allegedly attacking a couple he didn’t know on an MBTA Red Line train in Boston, biting a man and pulling the hair of that man’s girlfriend when she tried to intervene. Bernadino Baran-Garcia, a 26-year-old from Dorchester, was found by MBTA Transit Police officers yelling profanities and pounding his chest at the...

A 5-year-old child was in the backseat of a car that was stolen in Dorchester over the weekend. She was found safely in Randolph.