1+ week, 4+ day ago   (397+ words) A Worcester Superior Court judge sentenced a 52-year-old Worcester woman Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in a correctional center for a 2020 hit-and-run in which she fatally struck 58-year-old Timothy Gain. Kathryn Quinn, who was driving a dark Cadillac on July 30, 2020, crossed the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (379+ words) A funeral mass for veteran Worcester Police Officer Kurt Solomon, who was found dead in his home last week, will take place Wednesday morning. Kurt Solomon was found dead inside his Wildwood Avenue home on the morning of Aug. 18. His…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (431+ words) Cambridge has been grappling with renewed scrutiny of its decision to drop ShotSpotter after the July 4 killing of city worker Xavier Bautista. Police unions have argued that the absence of the gunshot-detection system, which the City Council voted to discontinue…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (429+ words) Annie Jonas is a Community writer at Boston.com. She works on understanding Boston.com readers by centering their voices, answering their questions, and sharing their stories. She also contributes to Boston.com’s Book Club newsletter. Annie was previously a…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (338+ words) Shortly before Monday’s shooting on Memorial Drive, suspected gunman Tyler Brown allegedly made suicidal statements and waved an assault rifle over a FaceTime call with his parole officer, court documents reveal. A criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Cambridge District Court…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (514+ words) The state’s highest court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the City of Quincy’s appeal to install two 10-foot, bronze statues of Catholic patron saints in front of the city’s new police and fire building. Oral arguments began Wednesday, according to…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1617+ words) A Somerville police detective at the center of a nearly decade-long battle between the police union, prosecutors, and the city has earned more than a half million dollars in leave pay as the city fights to keep him off the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (307+ words) Somerville is declaring war on rats. The city kicked off “DeRATification Week” on Monday, launching a campaign to curb its growing rodent population. “Rats are tough and scrappy, but so is Somerville,” Mayor Jake Wilson said in the announcement. “DeRATification…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (203+ words) Rapper Flavor Flav donated a bundle of sports equipment to a local youth center earlier this week in partnership with Harvard College and Franklin Sports. Flavor Flav, 67, gave a variety of athletic equipment to the Frisoli Youth Center in Cambridge…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago   (477+ words) On the heels of Kelsey Fitzsimmons’s acquittal, the unions representing North Andover police passed a vote of no confidence in the department’s chief Wednesday, citing a pattern of leadership failures including the department’s lack of body-worn cameras. More than 90 percent…...