Suffolk County News

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.

Prosecutors say two former Wentworth Institute of Technology police officers have pleaded guilty to stealing GPS and surveying equipment worth about $40,000 while patrolling the Boston campus at night.

With the cold season moving in, I want to reassure my constituents that the ice storm of last December has not faded from my memory.

A Level 3 sex offender was charged Friday in connection with a sexual assault inside Massachusetts General Hospital.

Like the creation of Team Floon, the poll in the Boston Sunday Globe is causing divergent opinions over whether it's for real or disingenuous.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today reversed a man's conviction for a 1988 rape because Suffolk County prosecutors relied on testimony from a Boston police officer whom the victim told about her rape even though he was not the first person the victim talked to.

In this Sept. 9, 1999 file photo, rescuers and firefighters work at the site of a massive explosion, which destroyed a nine-storey apartment building at Guryanova street, in the southeastern part of Moscow.

AFTER THE Boston mayoral preliminary election, a runner-up with an Ivy League degree agreed to help the challenger.

Boston police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll and Suffolk County prosecutors confirmed the body pulled from the Charles River at about 2:30 a.m. was William Hurley, 24.

Share + Oct 14, 2009 8:02 am US/Eastern A young Quincy man who disappeared after a Bruins game last week was found dead early Wednesday morning.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Bernard Piscopo of Dorchester of voluntary manslaughter in the death of Adam Rich of Revere at the 6 House on June 16, 2007, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

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Shortly after 11 a.m. on a sunny Thursday, a most astounding thing happened on the busy intersection of the Boston University Bridge and Commonwealth Avenue.