South End

A significant water main break flooded a section of street in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood early Tuesday morning. The main break happened along Tremont Street, leaving the road impassable from Lenox Street to Northampton Street. Photos of the area showed flooded streets and cars surrounded by water. By around 6:30, crews were able to shut off the flow and the water…

Two people were hit by a vehicle in Boston’s South End, near Boston Medical Center, on Monday night, police said. No arrests were made, Boston police said shortly after incident, which was reported about 8:46 p.m. It wasn’t immediately clear if the vehicle that hit the people had stayed at the scene. Personal effects were seen in a crosswalk...

Boston police seized 20 mopeds Thursday during an operation they said was aimed at enforcing traffic laws for off-road vehicles. Officers patrolled the South End and Back Bay neighborhoods in search of unlicensed operators with unregistered and uninsured mopeds and motorcycles. Authorities say they focused their efforts on the 500 block of Boylston Street, Huntington Avenue, Gainsborough Street and the…

Three teenage girls are accused of attacking another girl in Boston’s Back Bay earlier this week. Officers responded to Huntington Avenue near the Prudential Center just before 6 p.m. Monday for a report of an assault and battery, Boston police said. Police were told the victim, an underage girl, was kicked and punched several times by the group, according...

Two people were shot in Boston’s South End Monday night, according to authorities. The shooting occurred at about 11:15 p.m. on Aguadilla Street, Boston police said. The two people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Their names weren’t immediately known. Details surrounding the shooting weren’t released.

A Brockton man was arrested after a stabbing in Boston’s South End earlier this month, according to police. The stabbing occurred just after 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 1 on Washington Street, Boston police said. Officers responded to that area on Tuesday for a report of an assault with a knife. They were told the victim had been stabbed 12 days…

The Boston Public Schools say a staff member was assaulted Friday morning at Melvin H. King South End Academy.

A staff member was sent to the hospital Friday after being assaulted by a dysregulated student at a Boston school that provides special education, officials said in a letter to the community. It wasn’t immediately clear from the letter how badly the staff member was hurt or what led to the assault Friday morning at Melvin H. King South...

A Boston elementary school student was sent to a hospital in a fall down stairs on Tuesday, according to the school district. The incident at Blackstone Elementary School in the South End took place as the student returned from recess, according to a letter sent to the community by co-interim principals Omawali Stewart and Alaina Bearden. The student was taken…

No arrests have been made yet in the case.

Someone was hurt during an armed robbery late Sunday night in the South End neighborhood of Boston, according to police. Officers with the Boston Police Department responded to Berkeley Street shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Sunday for the armed robbery, the agency confirmed Monday morning. The robbery got away with money, but investigators weren’t sure exactly how much, authorities...

Police in Boston say a missing man from the South End has been located. The Boston Police Department asked for the public’s help Tuesday to find a 76-year-old man who had been missing since the previous afternoon. On Wednesday, police said the man had been found.

Officials allege 35-year-old Ames Sykes came up behind a woman, put her in a chokehold and then sexually assaulted her near the intersection of Appleton and West Canton streets Saturday night. Sykes is being held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on Wednesday.

Prosecutors said that several witnesses heard the sound of the woman screaming, and saw him allegedly dragging her in a choke hold down the street, then punching her in the head as he sat on top of her.

Police said a woman was walking on Columbus Ave, when she said the suspect grabbed her from behind, forced her to the ground and started attacking her.

A Quincy, Massachusetts, man accused of assaulting a woman in Boston’s South End on Saturday night is being held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing, after appearing in court on Monday for an arraignment. Thirty-five-year-old Amos Sykes is facing several charges after his arrest, including strangulation or suffocation with serious bodily injury and assault with intent to rape. A...

A shooting sent one person to the hospital near the location of another recent shooting in the South End.

Gunfire erupted near a park in Boston’s South End on Sunday night, sending one person to the hospital, police said. The person who was wounded in the 8:58 p.m. walked themselves into the Boston Medical Center and is expected to survive, according to Boston police. The shooting took place on East Lenox and Washington Streets, a block from a...

A woman was violently assaulted in Boston’s South End before bystanders stepped in to help, Boston police say.

A man was arrested on an indecent assault charge in an attack on a woman in Boston’s South End Saturday night, police said. Witnesses intervened after hearing the woman screaming near Columbus Avenue, according to Boston police. Officers responded to a call for an assault and battery in progress and a possible sexual assault in the area of West...