Suffolk County News

QUESTIONS REMAIN Pedro Tavarez, 49, a federal detainee, died Oct. 19 in a Suffolk County jail.

Gov. Deval L. Patrick tried to banish Bunker Hill Day and Evacuation Day from the roll of public holidays but was thwarted.

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The student body president at the University of Massachusetts at Boston was arrested and charged as an alleged repeat drug dealer last week after the Boston police Drug Control Unit raided his Dorchester apartment.

The Supreme Judicial Court today ruled that Suffolk County prosecutors can re-try Leah Daniels for using a knife to slash a man's neck and almost take off his ear outside a downtown bar in 1999.

Revere police say the two aged 17 and 14, used a gun to hold up a Domino's delivery man and steal his car Friday night.

A first foray into scalloping Joe Tremblay doesn't remember the days when scrounging for bay scallops was an annual foray for most East End residents.

For four years, hundreds of Boston children and teenagers picked up on charges such as assault and battery, robbery, and breaking and entering have been kept from incarceration and steered toward a community center in Roxbury.

Six Lynn men and a Revere man were indicted yesterday on charges they punched and kicked Jose Alicea so severely outside Club 33 on Aug.

Share + Nov 10, 2009 1:05 pm US/Eastern BOSTON One of the men charged with robbing a Boston cab dispatch center this week was just released from jail after spending most of his adult life in prison.

An argument that began at the Kells early Sunday morning spilled onto Brighton Avenue, quickly became physical and ended with the stabbing death of Gregory Phillips, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

Newly hired Pelham Library Director Bob Rice is being investigated by the Suffolk County District Attorney's office for claims made by his former employer, the city of Revere.

Maybe a rematch against Michael Flaherty, who hinted broadly as he conceded the election Tuesday that that's what he'd like? Perhaps a free-for-all, with the mayor finally stepping down and a stampede of candidates jumping in? Or that conspiratorial scenario that Menino will retire early, probably in 2011.

THE RECENT DEATH of an immigrant who was detained at the Suffolk County House of Correction is a tragic display of the human rights crisis in the Massachusetts detention system for immigrants facing deportation.

A sharpshooter on the city's special ops unit will not be hit with a rape charge after a female officer said she became pregnant after the alleged attack, the district attorney announced tonight.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office said today a six-week investigation failed to find enough evidence to charge a male Boston police officer with rape of a female colleague: For the past six weeks, Boston Police detectives and Suffolk County prosecutors conducted a comprehensive investigation of a report by a female Boston Police officer ...

Francis Pelosi, 56, of Boston, was arrested around 7 p.m. yesterday after he locked himself in an emergency-department men's room at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court this week affirmed the murder conviction of a Chelsea man who stabbed a Lynn father of three to death at a Chelsea produce market seven years ago, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced.

The last time Milady Tavarez spoke with her brother, Pedro, he sounded lonely but otherwise fine.

"He would love to become a Boston police officer," said Paul F. Langone. "He's wanted that his whole life." The elder Langone said his son, Paul M. Langone, 33, has been told to keep quiet as police investigate yesterday's bloody attack by a crazed psychiatric patient at a Massachusetts General Hospital medical office.