Dorchester couple Thelma and Howard Burns tell their love story.

Beverly and Milton Roye of Dorchester on the keys to a successful life together.

Massachusetts couples Thelma and Edward Burns, Willy and Dotty Ostiguy and Beverly and Milton Roye tell their love stories for Valentine’s Day.

Boston Police said that two police officers in a marked vehicle saw a fight on Adams Street in Dorchester. That’s near the Fields’ Corner MBTA stop.

Officers in Boston opened fire on a man they say was stabbing another person during a fight late Monday night.

Police say a man in his 40s was stabbing another man when they opened fire on him.

Police are investigating a shooting Wednesday in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. A man was shot on Magnolia Street near Dorchester around 6:30 p.m., according to police. He was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries. Investigators took photos of at least 10 evidence markers on the ground marking the shell casings. No arrests have been made.

A Massachusetts man was arrested Sunday night while chasing another man in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, police said, and is facing a number of charges after a stabbing and head-on vehicle collision.

A 16-year-old has died from injuries he sustained in a triple stabbing that occurred Saturday evening in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood after a fight broke out between two groups of teenagers, authorities announced Sunday. Boston police say Yonan Guerrero was taken to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Commissioner William Gross, who was on scene late Saturday...

A man was killed Wednesday evening in a shooting in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Boston police said the shooting was reported just before 7:30 p.m. in the area of 1334 Dorchester Ave. There, they found the male victim suffering from at least one gunshot wound. The victim was taken to an area hospital in critical condition. He later succumbed to his…

Boston police are searching for a man who they say used what appears to be a hammer to break into a jewelry case at a store in Dorchester. That man then fled the store.

The shooting occurred on Washington Street in Dorchester on Saturday night.

Two search warrants carried out by Boston police turned up over 30 bags of drugs, according to a release from police.

Transit police are looking for two people of interest after an MBTA employee was assaulted in Dorchester. Details were limited, but investigators said the employee suffered a serious facial injury in the attack at the Fields Corner MBTA station. The incident, which was described as an assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, happened around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, transit police…

A man was in critical condition and a woman wounded after a stabbing incident in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood late Sunday. Boston police said the incident took place at 1593 Dorchester Avenue sometime after 10:45 p.m. A man was arrested in connection with the incident. Both victims were taken to local hospitals. The man was in critical but stable condition, police…

A shooting in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood sent two people to the hospital on Sunday night. The call came in at 6:40 p.m., Boston police said. No arrests have been made. You have 19 shots like this is a 1980s ‘New Jack City’ movie. This is crazy. Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III The co-owner of Billy’s Texas BBQ & Pizza...

Police continued Monday to search for the gunman who fired 19 shots into a restaurant Sunday in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.

The man believed to have shot another man in a Mobil gas station this weekend has turned himself in after a SWAT raid on his home came up empty, police in Randolph, Massachusetts, said. Police had been searching for Traequon Duncan, 23, since the shooting at the gas station on North Main Street early Sunday morning. Randolph police Chief William…

As the first snow of the season fell across the Boston area, Lindsay Crudele invited me to her Dorchester home to observe what she described
as a “hideous tangle of bureaucracy” in her backyard. The eyesore is more commonly known as a utility pole, which had
teetered precariously amidst wires and tree branches for weeks.

A Dorchester homeowner couldn’t get anyone to fix a fractured utility pole in her backyard, ending up in an “endless” customer service loop for weeks.