Boston Police are cracking down on the illegal drug trade in South Boston following the fatal stabbing of a 67-year-old grandmother by a man who allegedly broke into her home, hoping to find fishing gear he could steal and then sell to feed his drug habit. According to Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office, 13 people have been arraigned in South Boston Municipal Court this week on ...

Boston police are investigating a possible bank robbery on Gallivan Boulevard in Dorchester, where an officer apparently was injured, officials said today. Boston police spokeswoman Officer Nicole Grant said the department received a call at 3:11 p.m. that someone passed a note to a teller at the Mt. Washington Bank at 489 Gallivan Blvd.

Boston police are investigating internally after an audit discovered that drugs seized by police as evidence in one pending case cannot be located.

A 26-year-old South Boston man is expected to be arraigned Monday on murder and home invasion charges in the death of Barbara Coyne, 67, who authorities said was found fatally stabbed inside her South Boston home one week ago. Timothy Kostka was identified as the murder suspect by forensic evidence and information from witnesses, Boston Police said. He was already in custody on an unrelated ...

Boston police say a Target store in the South Bay shopping center was been temporarily closed after a man shot at another location walked in seeking help.