roslindale

Boston is home to countless entrepreneurial spirits and plenty of small businesses. Kwani heads to Roslindale to get the lowdown on the locally owned shops around the area. She visits Rozzie Bound Co-op and V!Healthy. Roslindale is also one of 20 Boston neighborhoods that make up Boston main streets. The Boston Main Streets Foundation offers support and resources to local...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Police initially said a pedestrian was hit, but later said the victim was on a scooter or moped A person was fatally hit by a vehicle while riding a moped in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood, police said Tuesday. The crash happened around 6:45 p.m. on Washington Street. Boston police initially said a pedestrian was hit. Authorities confirmed late...

A gas pump burst into flames Tuesday after being hit by a vehicle in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood. The crash happened at Alfa Auto Fuel on Washington Street. Boston police say the driver of the SUV thought she put it in park, but accelerated straight into the pump. “I can’t believe this happened, it’s like a movie. You see this...

Police received a call for a shooting on Christmas in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood, but it was all a hoax. Boston police say responding officers were able to quickly determine no shooting had taken place at a residence on Augustus Avenue, after there was a call into Boston’s 311 tip line around 5:30 p.m. Monday. The address happens to be...

An 18-year-old is dead after being stabbed Monday in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood. Police are now trying to determine who did it. The 18-year-old, identified Tuesday as Angel Luis Davila Vega of Dorchester, was found in an alleyway behind a fence between a home and a Buddhist temple on Bradeen Street. That area, neighbors said, has been problematic over the...

A teenager has died after being stabbed Monday afternoon in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood, according to police. The stabbing occurred at about 5:30 p.m. on Bradeen Street, authorities said. The victim, an 18-year-old, was taken to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries. Boston Police Superintendent Felipe Colon said no arrests have been made, and authorities do not...

Boston Police are investigating a crash in a Boston neighborhood early Sunday morning. Authorities responded to a report of a car into building at 182 Florence Street in Roslindale around 12:33 a.m. Boston Fire, a building inspector and National Grid were requested on scene. A citation was issued by BPD on the scene. The investigation is ongoing.

After five recent cases of rabies in Boston raccoons, pet owners are being warned to be on high alert. Boston’s Animal Care and Control division issued a warning Friday on Facebook, saying that a raccoon found near Hillside Avenue in the city’s Mission Hill neighborhood had tested positive for rabies on Aug. 14. It was the fifth raccoon to...

A man from Roslindale has been missing since Saturday morning, according to police. Ilya Protasov, a 24-year-old man from Roslindale was last seen at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday July 8 near 875 Canterbury St. Protasov is five feet 11 inches, 230 lbs., has black hair, blue eyes and has scars on his hands and forearms. He was last seen wearing…

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has briefly addressed the crash her city vehicle was involved in on Tuesday in Roslindale, and a newly released police report showed that three people were taken to the hospital after the crash, including a child and the officer who was driving Wu. The mayor’s black electric Mustang SUV had its police lights on during...

The crash happened at the intersection of Hyde Park Avenue and Blakemore Street in Roslindale.

A car carrying Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was involved in a crash Tuesday, according to her office. The mayor’s office confirmed she was a passenger at the time of the crash and said no one was seriously hurt. The crash happened at the intersection of Hyde Park Avenue and Blakemore Street in Roslindale. Video shows a black SUV with...

A man is facing charges after prosecutors say he caused a crash that sent a car smashing into a home in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood in March, killing one man and injuring another. The crash occurred in the 3900 block of Washington Street on the afternoon of March 26. Prosecutors from the Suffolk Country District Attorney’s office said the suspect, 20-year-old…

One man is dead, and another is injured after a vehicle crashed into a three-story home in Roslindale, Massachusetts. The accident has stunned neighbors, and has prompted some to suggest ways to prevent another tragedy in their neighborhood.

One man is dead and another was injured after a car crash in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood on Sunday night, according to officials. The crash occurred in the 3900 block of Washington Street around 5 p.m. when a car crashed into a triple-decker home. The deceased and the injured victim are both men in their 60s, and neither were in the…

Evidence presented in federal court provides a look at the case prosecutors are building against one of the owners of Stash’s Pizza. Stavros Papantoniadis is facing one charge of forced labor related to the alleged treatment of a former employee who worked for him from 2001 to 2015. The criminal complaint against Papantoniadis includes the experiences of six additional employees,…

A driver cut a McDonald’s employee while trying to rob a drive-thru at a Boston location of the fast food enterprise on Tuesday night, police said. At about 8:47 p.m., the person pulled up with a knife and tried to grab money from two employees working at the McDonald’s at 718 American Legion Highway in Roslindale, Boston police said....

The Boston Police Department is investigating after a man stole the cash register from a Roslindale restaurant in an armed robbery Friday afternoon. A man wearing a ski mask walked into the Arboretum Pizza and Grill around 4:30 p.m. The restaurant owner said off-camera that the man immediately walked behind the counter, pointed a gun at him and told him…

Footage from an indoor surveillance camera in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood shows the moment a car slammed into the building over the weekend, causing so much damage it forced evacuations and shuttered the businesses based there. Emergency crews responded to the building on Corinth Street just before 9 a.m. on Sunday morning after the sedan crashed through the building. The...