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General Assignment Reporter Jessica Van Sack is the Herald's Boston police bureau chief covering crime and justice.

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Three students from the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology who found a way to hack into Boston's transit system to get free rides can talk publicly about the security flaw, a court ruled on Tuesday in ...

In colonial and Victorian times, fixation and obsession with Biblical violence became the inspiration for sociopathic behavior.

Boston police say boys ages 4 and 17 were shot and wounded as the older boy held the younger one in his arms.

A 48-year-old man remained hospitalized Monday night after a public bus struck him on Rand Street around 2:30 p.m., authorities said.

Boston police officers on detail nabbed at least 66 alleged perps - including 10 gunmen, eight robbers and 10 pervs - while manning detail posts over the past year alone.

Sex and Drugs Trivia Savant Project 1625 Tremont St., Roxbury Crossing Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Every Sunday evening, Maureen Hautaniemi stands at the front of the Savant Project, a Mission Hill bistro, with a coiled ...

Rosemary Maddrey's day began yesterday with a bank robbery, police said. Toward the middle of the day, she allegedly told authorities a fake story about a kidnapping.

Welcome! My name is John A Keith . I am a real estate broker in Boston. Along with my team of agents, I help buyers and sellers of homes throughout Boston, including the South End, Back Bay, and Beacon Hill ...

A Milton mother was arrested and her two children were placed in Department of Social Service care yesterday after the car she was driving collided with a van, which then overturned.

A woman who called Boston police this afternoon saying she was being kidnapped ended up behind bars herself.

It's heartbreaking to learn that bronze sculptures in the Forest Hills Cemetery have been stolen from their eternal homes, possibly to be sold off for scrap metal.

August 14, 2008 More information to be released about fatal shooting in South Boston We may learn more Friday about a fatal shooting at a South Boston convenience store.

An East Boston man was convicted of animal cruelty and arson charges stemming from a 2007 incident in which he stomped a cat to death, stuffed its body in a paper bag, lit it on fire, and tossed the burning ...

In an unanimous vote, the Board of Trustees of the Boston Public Library named Amy Ryan, director of the Hennepin County Library, MN, as the new BPL president.

"I have two credit cards; I found them on the ground, and the GPS, that's mine," said Vasquez.

A kidnapping suspect being held in Boston is a German man who lived in the guesthouse of a San Marino couple who disappeared in 1985, a sheriff's spokesman told The Associated Press on Monday.

A day after a large safe was found jutting out of the trunk of a Ford Taurus in South Boston, police yesterday were still trying to figure out what is inside.