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A rideshare driver in Massachusetts has been arrested on a kidnapping charge after he allegedly trapped a woman inside his car in Brighton late Thursday night, police said.

A man who was being disruptive before he allegedly stabbed two men inside a historical downtown Boston bar was arrested Saturday and is facing multiple charges, police said. Boston police responded to the iconic Bell in Hand Tavern, located at 45 Union St., just after 10 p.m. for a report of a person with a knife. Responding officers found the…

A 19-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly broke into Fenway Park early Saturday, Boston police confirm. Police say Seamus Webster, of Newburyport, made entry into the stadium around 1:40 a.m. at 4 David Ortiz Way. Webster was charged with trespassing and breaking and entering nighttime, police said. The news outlet Live Boston first reported the…

Boston police are searching for a man wanted in connection with a sexual assault that occurred in the city’s Public Garden early Sunday. The Boston Police Department released an image of the suspect later Sunday, in hopes the public will be able to help identify him. He is described as an unknown male. Detectives say the suspect seen in...

Four Boston police officers were injured and three were brought to the hospital after being struck by a mini van during an arrest attempt in Roxbury on Saturday night.

Police say an Allston woman who thought she was getting into a ride-sharing service car reported that she was kidnapped near Boston’s busy Faneuil Hall and taken on a half-hour drive before managing to escape near the New Hampshire border. The woman in her 20s said she ordered a Lyft around 12:50 a.m. Sunday after spending the night out...

A funeral for a 19-year-old Emerson College student killed last month in a fight in Boston is scheduled for Sunday. Family and friends gathered Saturday for Daniel Hollis’s wake. Sunday they will say their final goodbyes.

The U.S. Marine Corps. said Tuesday a Marine was allegedly involved in an incident last month that led to the death of a 19-year-old Emerson College student that is being investigated as a homicide by Boston police. “We are deeply saddened to learn that an off-base incident allegedly involving one of our Marines has led to the passing of a...

Police in Boston say a missing woman has been found safe. Sixty-seven-year-old Kim Doan of Connecticut had last been seen just after 4 p.m. Wednesday at the IMAX theater at the New England Aquarium.

Three months after he was shot in his native Dominican Republic, Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz says his life is forever changed. In his first interview with an English language publication, Ortiz tells the Boston Globe that he almost died. “People need to understand, this isn’t a movie where you get shot in the street and you’re back two...

During the 22 years he spent in prison after being convicted of killing a Boston police detective, Sean Ellis believed there was something suspicious about the officers who led the murder investigation. He just couldn’t prove it. It would take years of digging and scores of public information requests from his attorneys to uncover evidence that several officers investigating the...

Participants in a Straight Pride Parade and counter-protesters came face-to-face in Boston, Saturday, with police making dozens of arrests amid a tense scene. Boston police deployed a massive presence of officers from Copley Square, where the parade began, to City Hall, where protesters gathered as parade participants held a rally. Thirty-six people were arrested and four officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries...

One person was killed in a daytime shooting in Boston’s Back Bay on Tuesday. Police responded to Huntington Avenue at West Newton Street around 11 a.m., where an adult man was suffering from life-threatening gunshot injuries. The crime scene is just outside the Colonnade Hotel, not far from the Prudential Center. The victim, who has not been identified, was taken...

One person was killed in a daytime shooting in Boston’s Back Bay on Tuesday. Police responded to Huntington Avenue at West Newton Street around 11 a.m., where an adult man was suffering from life-threatening gunshot injuries. The crime scene is just outside the Colonnade Hotel, not far from the Prudential Center. The victim, who has not been identified, was taken...

Unruly Kodak Black fans caused a disturbance Wednesday night at the House of Blues in Boston after the Florida-based rapper unexpectedly canceled his show after he was arrested. Boston police said they responded to the 15 Lansdowne St. venue at about 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday after they received a call of a disturbance. At the scene, officers saw a large...

One of the most anticipated athletic events in Boston is finally here as the 123rd Boston Marathon is underway. Lawrence Cherono of Kenya won the men’s elite race, barely edging out two-time winner Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia. Worknesh Degefa of Ethiopia won the women’s elite race. She pulled ahead early on and ran the last 20 miles alone. First the...

As runners lined up to pick up their bibs for the Boston Marathon, many were thinking about the race they’ve prepared so long for.

As runners lined up to pick up their bibs for the Boston Marathon, many were thinking about the race they’ve prepared so long for.

A missing Wentworth Institute of Technology student who was last seen early Saturday morning in Boston was found dead at the base of a nearby cliff in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood, according to authorities. The body of 19-year-old Maximillian Carbone was found by searchers at the bottom of a cliff behind a red building on Terrace Street in the Roxbury...

Emergency crews responded to a Boston courthouse for a hazmat call on Friday, only to find out that the substance that sparked the concern was a crushed candy cane. The hazardous materials call came in around 11:30 a.m. from Dorchester District Court at 510 Washington St. reporting a suspicious substance in an envelope that was mailed to the court. The...