The statue was vandalized with red spray paint lettering and white paint on the granite base and the steps around the statue.

Boston Police District A-1 officers engaged with kids at Charlestown Touch-a-Truck event to strengthen community ties.

Residents impacted by Mass and Cass spillover say the area “remains an open-air drug market” two years after the mayor rolled out a plan to clean up the troubled intersection and are begging for

Boston police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect in connection to a report of shots fired Saturday afternoon in Roxbury.

A Roxbury man killed in a shooting in a residential neighborhood on Monday night has been identified, the Boston Police Department said. At around 8:51 p.m. on June 9, a man was found with a gunshot wound in front of a home at 4 Levant St.

Boston police arrested 13 suspects and charged them with paying for sex after conducting an undercover operation near the South Bay Mall on Wednesday.

Boston police are investigating after one person was shot and taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries in Allston on Thursday.

Boston police are looking for a man suspected of threatening a woman with a knife at a Dorchester laundromat earlier in June.

BOSTON — A pedestrian is recovering from injuries after being hit by a car in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood on Monday night. According to police, the collision occurred around 7:45 p.m. in the area of 835 Huntington Avenue. The victim was transported to the hospital with injuries that aren’t considered to be life threatening.

Boston police are investigating after a person was shot in Mattapan on Wednesday evening. Police said the shooting happened shortly after 6 p.m. on Standard Street. The person who was shot police said was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.