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The Winter Olympics is in full-swing and snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis has scored a big win for herself and her hometown of Roxbury. She finally won her first gold medal in Beijing. Jacobellis is a hero for the students at the same Roxbury school she attended 25 years ago. Darya Abraham is a fifth grader at Booth Free School and tells…

Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The 2 ½-story house is the only surviving residence associated with the slain civil rights leader’s formative years in the city.

Roxbury’s stockpile of PPE was destroyed over the weekend during an alleged Molotov cocktail attack on the volunteer firehouse.

Clean up continues Monday at Roxbury’s volunteer fire department after Connecticut State Police say it was intentionally set on fire Saturday. Officials say their stock of PPE was destroyed in that fire.

A man who state police believe is responsible for targeting multiple Connecticut EMS agencies with Molotov cocktails on Saturday night has been arrested and remains in custody in Pennsylvania on Sunday.

A man who state police believe is responsible for targeting multiple Connecticut EMS agencies with Molotov cocktails on Saturday night has been arrested and remains in custody in Pennsylvania on Sunday.

A man who state police believe is responsible for targeting multiple Connecticut EMS agencies with Molotov cocktails on Saturday night has been arrested and remains in custody in Pennsylvania on Sunday. Richard White, 37, of Torrington, was arrested on Saturday night on Interstate 80 west in Milton, Pennsylvania, following a traffic stop after officials said he fled the state. White…

Officials have arrested the man they believe is responsible for targeting at least four Connecticut EMS agencies with Molotov cocktails Saturday night.

Officials have arrested the man they believe is responsible for targeting at least four Connecticut EMS agencies with Molotov cocktails Saturday night. Richard White, 37, of Torrington, was arrested after police obtained a warrant on third degree arson and burglary charges. White fled the state and was located in Pennsylvania shortly after 10 p.m., according to officials. Pennsylvania State Police…

Two teenagers were shot and killed Sunday afternoon in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood, according to police, just hours before another teen was shot in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood. Boston police responded to a reported shooting at 46 Wildwood Street around 4:42 p.m. and found two male victims suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Both victims were rushed to local hospitals with...

The tragic deaths of a mother and two young children who fell from a parking garage in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood on Christmas Day are being investigated as a double-murder suicide, law enforcement officials said Thursday. Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins identified the deceased as Erin Pascal, 40, of West Roxbury, her 4-year-old daughter Allison, and her 1-year-old son Andrew. “This…

A woman and two young children are dead after being found unconscious on a sidewalk in Boston, police said in a somber news conference Christmas Day. The announcement from Boston police, which didn’t identify the relationship between the three people in the incident or what might have happened, came after Northeastern University police warned the public to stay away...

Residents in Roxbury have gotten used to traveling outside of town lines to buy a bottle of wine or a six-pack, but that is about to change. Starting this week, happy hour will be a little closer to home as Wine and Spirts at Roxbury Station opens in one of the last dry towns in the state.

EnCon Police have arrested three men in connection to illegal deer hunting in Roxbury on Monday.

Troopers from Connecticut State Police are searching for victims of car break-ins in Southbury and Roxbury on Sunday.

The former Boston high school dean and anti-violence advocate convicted of shooting and nearly killing a student has been sentenced to up to 26 years in prison.