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Officers have arrested a man who is accused of demanding money and jewelry from two people and firing a gun during the ordeal, according to a news release from the Boston Police Department. Sylvester Coburn, 36, of Dorchester, was arrested Wednesday in Dorchester after the incident that happened around 10:05 a.m. in Roslindale, police said. Police responded to a shots…

Emergency vehicles filled a section of Washington Street after a fire broke out at a triple-decker.

A fire broke out Tuesday evening in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood. Aerial footage from NBC10 Boston’s SkyRanger helicopter showed emergency vehicles blocking off busy Washington Street. The fire started on the top two floors of a triple-decker on the 3900 block of Washington Street, the Boston Fire Department said. By abut 7:30 p.m., officials said the heavy fire had been...

Firefighters in Boston are responding Wednesday morning to a house fire in Roslindale. The house fire broke out at a home on Beech Street. The people in the home were able to exit safely. A firefighter was taken to the hospital by Boston EMS for a non-life threatening injury. Additional information has not yet been made available.

Boston police have made an arrest in a serious stabbing in Roslindale Wednesday. Kenneth Edwards, 37, was arrested after the stabbing on Marion Street Wednesday afternoon. Police said Edwards was found on Marion Street with blood on his clothing. The victim was found down the street with multiple stab wounds. He was taken to the hospital for treatment with injuries…

A person suffered life-threatening injuries in a stabbing in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood. Police responded around 3 p.m. to the incident on Marion Street. The victim was stabbed multiple times. The Boston Police Department did not say whether a suspect was in custody, explaining that the investigation was active.

A Roslindale man is being hailed as a hero after helping his neighbors successfully escape an early morning fire at a residential building in the Massachusetts neighborhood.

Two firefighters were transported to an area hospital by Boston EMS with minor injuries suffered battling the blaze, officials said.

The fire, in which nine residents were displaced, also saw the rescue of a woman and her two children from a second-floor window thanks to a neighbor and his mattress.

A Roslindale man is being hailed as a hero after helping his neighbors successfully escape an early morning fire at a residential building in the Massachusetts neighborhood. According to the Boston Fire Department, which initially responded to a fire on Delford Street in Roslindale shortly after midnight, the neighbor set up a mattress outside of a second floor window of…

A fire left two people without a home and injured a firefighter in Roslindale on the Fourth of July. The Boston Fire Department said they had a hard time getting ladders up to the roof and around multiple wires when the fire broke out on Marion Street around 5:30 p.m. Monday. One fire truck went through the back yard of…

Police didn’t give a specific reason for closing the streets in their announcement, beyond a concern for public safety.

Several streets in Boston are closed overnight through Sunday, police announced Thursday. The eleven street closures affect several parts of Roxbury, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain and Roslindale. Barricades and electronic signs were stationed in the neighborhoods Friday. Police didn’t give a specific reason for closing the streets in their announcement, beyond a concern for public safety. The streets are closed...

Police are searching for a man who went missing early Sunday morning from his home in Boston and whose truck was found in a state forest parking lot across Massachusetts. Giuseppe Musto, 75, was reported missing from his home in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood, Massachusetts State Police said Tuesday. His pickup truck was located that afternoon in a Mount Washington State…

The bodies of two Massachusetts men were pulled from a Vermont lake Tuesday, according to police. Authorities say the victims, identified as 29-year-old Nicholas Samuels of Weston and 27-year-old Aidan Connolly of Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood, were in a kayak on Seymour Lake in Morgan when the water became choppy due to Tuesday’s storms. Vermont State Police said members of...

The shooting happened around 10 p.m. on Friday night at a gas pump.

A Massachusetts woman is shaken by what she saw from an Amazon delivery driver dropping off a few packages at her Roslindale home last weekend. Liz Murray’s home security camera captured it all on Sunday, as the Amazon driver repeatedly kicked a box before giving it one last whack. “I kind of was in shock this was actually happening,”...

The delivery driver appeared to be having a bad day, homeowner Liz Murray said.

There was no immediate word from police on any injuries.