Police fatally shot carjacking suspect; some councilors praise BPS, others demur
Police say officers fatally shot carjacking suspect who tried to run them down in Roxbury
March 11
Stanley Staco reports what started as a carjacking in Brigham Circle ended in Roxbury on the other side of Mission Hill with the driver shot by Boston Police officers.
Homeland Security grabs 14-year-old Brighton HS student, drives her to New York to blackmail father; judge orders her immediate release
March 11
GBH reports.
Man admits he gunned down a teenager in Dorchester in 2011, gets 14-17 years
March 11
A man who was 17 when he shot two other teens on Geneva Avenue in 2011, killing one and leaving the other with life-altering injuries, was sentenced today to 14 to 17 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Councilor getting fed up with space savers that persist long after the snow has melted
March 11
City Councilor Miniard Culpepper (Roxbury, South End, Fenway) says the 48-hour grace period for post-snow space savers is a good compromise between letting residents with cars benefit from all the work they put into shoveling out the spaces and the public need for clear streets. But after this season's two major storms, he says, something has ...
Some councilors wanted to praise BPS for record graduation rate, but others said it's too early to cheer
March 11
A resolution congratulating Boston Public Schools on a record four-year graduation rate of 81.3% in 2025 and record drop in absenteeism was sent to a committee for a hearing after two councilors said it's too early to heap praise on BPS.
Scooter sweeps and moped mayhem
March 11
Boston Police report rounding up the usual scooters on Boylston, Kilmarnock and Gainsborough streets and Huntington Avenue on Monday and Tuesday - including a number belonging to third-party food deliverers.
Massachusetts charter schools are public schools, which means they have to comply with the state public-records law, court rules
March 11
A Malden charter school that refused to hand over records requested by members of the public without a court order got that court order today - from the state's highest court.
Man who came here as a 5-year-old Cambodian refugee to remain locked up as ICE gets ready to boot him from the country in the near future, or maybe just keep him locked up for months, who's to say?
March 11
A federal judge said yesterday that he really feels for the plight of Kchang Pen, who arrived from Cambodia as a refugee in 1981 when he was just 5 years old, but ruled that the law is the law and if ICE says it thinks it can soon get approval from Cambodia to ...
