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August 11, 2021

Boston shooting sends dining patrons running for cover in 'stampede of people' with 'fear on their faces'

Boston police on Wednesday were investigating reports of shots fired in the Back Bay neighborhood that sent people scrambling for safety, according to local outlets.

August 11, 2021

3 Boston police officers injured during arrest at public library after call about man masturbating

Three Boston police officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries Tuesday while responding to a radio call at the Boston Public Library, where a man who had reportedly been masturbating punched and bit the officers, according to authorities.

August 8, 2021

Boston police say 19-year-old involved in triple stabbing

A 19-year-old is accused of stabbing three people in Boston late Saturday, according to police.

August 6, 2021

Boston reverend slams Cori Bush: 'She should be arrested for political and ideological malpractice'

Boston Rev. Eugene Rivers III, the director at the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, slammed “Squad” member Rep. Cori Bush’s “ridiculous” call to defund the police, especially as records show she spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security.

August 5, 2021

Boston reverend rejects 'defund police,' demands mayoral candidates stop 'terror' in Black neighborhoods

A longtime religious leader in Boston is demanding that mayoral candidates address rising gun violence in Massachusetts’ capital after a recent incident sprayed 40 bullets across a neighborhood street, arguing that "calls for defunding police and the elimination of school police are absurd."

August 4, 2021

Acting Boston mayor uses slavery, Trump to shoot down questions about vaccine passports

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey shot down talks of enforcing vaccine passports in the city, comparing such papers to the Jim Crow era and former President Donald Trump’s birtherism theories.

July 31, 2021

Boston trains collide, leaving at least 25 hurt, authorities say

A collision between two Boston passenger trains Friday evening left at least 25 people with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. 

July 29, 2021

Ex-Cardinal McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting teen

Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s, court records show.

July 24, 2021

Chicago, Boston, Atlanta join growing list of cities requiring students wear masks

Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta joined cities nationwide will require students to wear masks when they return to the classroom next month as coronavirus cases are again on the rise.

July 23, 2021

Former flight attendant to honor 9/11 victims by pushing beverage cart from Boston to Ground Zero

Paul Veneto spoke with Fox News as he prepares to push a beverage cart about 220 miles starting next month