At a press conference yesterday, state Attorney General Martha Coakley minced no words about Annie Dookhan, the state chemist accused of tampering with drug samples in thousands of criminal cases:
Annie Dookhan's alleged actions corrupted the integrity of the entire criminal justice system. There are many victims as a result of this.
Brian D'Amico reports police responded around 7:20 p.m. to 42 St. Stephen St., where residents said four men armed with knives and a gun forced their way in and attacked them before the residents managed to force the robbers back out. Two of the residents were taken to a local hospital for observation.
A man indicted last year as on charges of being a repeat cocaine dealer will likely have the charges dropped next week because of problems related to the substance former state chemist Annie Dookhan certified was cocaine, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Specifically, the DA's office reports, re-testing by State Police shows the material was, in fact, an inert substance. At a hearing on Oct. 5 in Suffolk Superior Court, prosecutors will file a document known as a nolle prosequi asking that the charges against Jeffrey Banks be dropped.
A list of the 25 douchiest bars in Boston has sparked an effort to find Boston's least douchiest bars.
The ACLU reports the results of a public-records request to Boston Police on its use of automated license-plate readers:
The Boston Business Journal reports the numbers, quotes a city official as saying it has to do with more people riding the T, not cutbacks in the number of parking-enforcement officers.
The Jamaica Plain Gazette gets action - and dishes that bus drivers have a button they can press that automatically generates a report to MBTA Transit Police about bus stops filled with delivery trucks or other vehicles.
Two rounds were fired into the house on Colorado Street from a car that sped away around 9:20 p.m.
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The Globe reports the alleged butterfingers was packing a loaded gun on an outbound trolley just before Newton Centre; a rider dropped a dime and police arrested him and three pals.
Seems not everybody's enamored with the idea of photos of drunks and snoozers on the T.
The Globe reports that Deputy School Superintendent Michael Goar is leaving Boston to become the executive director of an education-related non-profit grou
A federal appeals court today upheld the 30-year prison sentence given a man for trying to kill a federal drug informant outside a South End barbershop in 2010.
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston ruled that Trevor Watson got a fair trial and a jury had reason to find him guilty of repeatedly stabbing the informant, who was providing information on a drug ring in which Watson was an alleged participant.
A man was taken away in critical condition after getting shot at Geneva and Blue Hill avenues this afternoon, the Globe reports.
UPDATE: Shots were fired, but nobody was hit; instead, a bullet-riddled SUV crashed.
And right on Centre Street, no less, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reports.
Boston Public Schools officials formally released five possible plans for re-aligning assignment zones for elementary and middle-school students today, but promptly said three of the proposals - for 11 or 23 zones or pure neighborhood schools - were too extreme for the goals of ensuring quality education with a diverse student population.
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