Somerville News

Yoon goes online with the lefties at Daily Kos and promptly gets bushwacked by some Somerville residents upset about parking enforcement there.

Overview : Boston PD, Somerville PD and Cambridge PD are investigating a string of commercial robberies involving a Black Male with a beard, who displays a firearm, and usually attempts to purchase something in order to get the clerk to open the register.

A 46-year-old Cambridge man, the son of a former state representative, was arrested at gunpoint outside a Somerville hotel accused of forcing a Pepperell woman into prostitution.

Massachusetts requires drivers to buckle up, but police can only ticket motorists if they pull them over for something else.

Overall, the budget represents a $4.98 million decrease from the prior year's spending plan.

Officer James Holder was at a Charlestown construction site around 4:20 p.m. when he spotted the suspected getaway car in an East Cambridge Savings robbery earlier in the day.

Three suspects are under arrest after a mid-afternoon bank robbery in Somerville.

Boston police captured a man allegedly breaking into a second floor Jamaica Plain apartment while his pants were waiting for him in the backyard.

Three suspected bank robbers were arrested Tuesday night. James Rigano, 42, of Malden, Terry Dunnels, Jr., 29, of Cambridge, and Eric Leonard, 20, of Everett were arrested and turned over to Somerville Police who then charged them with bank robbery.

Boston police officers are searching for a man suspected in a string of robberies.

" 6/23/09 at1:35 AM. The Tedeschi's at 321 Broadway was robbed at gunpoint by a BM .

KinoDance, based in Somerville, is a multimedia performance collective that crafts various projects using elements of film, sculpture and performance.

Eyes alert, camera inside his backpack, dressed for his job as a custodian in paint-stained jeans and zip-up sweatshirt, John Beattie emerges from the Park Street subway station at 5:35 a.m. on a cool, overcast Monday and glances at the steeple atop the Park Street Church.

Police say Timothy Ellis of Somerville splashed through a puddle Friday morning, drenching people waiting for a bus on Tremont Street.

Medford's weekly local newspaper, the Medford Transcript , is being forced to close its Medford Square office and will work out of the Somerville affiliate office.

Roy Crane was just trying to deliver a pizza and some drinks to a house on Rindge Road last Saturday.

The Massachusetts Democrat's top political aide sent an e-mail to his supporters today, inviting them to Somerville for a meeting Tuesday.

A Somerville, Mass., man is accused of stalking and trying to extort money from a Wilton man who once employed him, according to police and court records.

Prospective home buyer Jessica Doctoroff stands on the porch of a condominium for sale with her real estate agent Brenda Bremis in Somerville, Massachusetts April 2, 2009.

Police arrested a Somerville, Mass., man after he led them on a brief pursuit on Interstate 93 and then crashed his motorcycle into a car, police said.