Boston Police report homicide detectives and an FBI crime lab have identified a man whose stabbed body was found in Boston Harbor near Thompson Island on Dec. 4, 1991 as Toussaint Gonsalves, a graduate of the old Boston High School and …

Jan 20, 2025 · Date Type Street Neighborhood; 1/29/25 - 5:30 pm: Man charged with repeatedly stabbing husband of South End woman he was trying to rob; suspect also stabbed, police say

Nov 8, 2024 · Date Street Neighborhood Victim; 8/12/24 - 6:40 pm: Two shot, one dead in apartment on Trent Street in Dorchester: 5 Trent St. Dorchester : 8/4/24 - 4:42 am

Nov 21, 2024 · Mayor Wu says she will ask the City Council to approve a $110-million rotating fund to help tip the balance on new housing developments whose builders would otherwise hold back because of the high cost of financing these days - with the first project to be a mixed-income apartment building as part of the complete overhaul of Bunker Hill housing project. Read more.

Jan 1, 2025 · Boston Police report a total of 24 murders in Boston in 2024 (23 people killed this year and one victim who died after being attacked in a previous year). It's down from 36 in 2023 and is the lowest number of homicides in the city since 1957. Of course, that doesn't help the loved ones and friends of the people who died. And while the number of …

Jan 30, 2023 · The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology - which grew out of a bequest from ol' Ben himself - announced today it's changing its name to the Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, or Franklin Cummings Tech for short, in honor of the Cummings Foundation, which gave the school a $12.5 million grant in 2021. The school is adopting the new name as it gets ready to move from its ...

Jan 1, 2025 · Our own Ron Newman took in the early First Night fireworks, over the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common, this evening.

Jan 22, 2025 · A developer has filed plans for a three-story, three-building condo development at 65-79 Seattle St. that would include things most Boston projects don't get, including plantings that will include nut trees and a "woonerf" - a sort of combination plaza, driveway and shaded area that is popular in the Netherlands and which could ultimately be connected to a local "greenway" path once Harvard ...

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Dec 26, 2024 · Brookline, Boston, Cambridge and Newton firefighters responded to 90 Sargent Rd. in Brookline, just north of Jamaica Pond, around 10:40 a.m. for what turned into a three-alarm fire in a 13,000-square foot house.. Firefighters were ordered out of part of the house just before part of the roof and one of its chimneys collapsed shortly before 11:50 a.m. - when heavy fire was still reported in the ...