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Behind the statistics and the political blame game over rising gun violence are the victims

Four people were shot in a drive-by shooting in Manchester, New Hampshire, Friday morning, police said.

A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Air Force is largely responsible for a 2017 mass shooting at a Texas church for failing to report the shooter’s criminal history. 

A night of celebration in Boston turned violent after four people were shot in separate incidents in the city overnight, police said. One victim has died. Boston police say shortly after 3 a.m. in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood, an officer who was in the area of Seaver Street and Humboldt Avenue saw a man being shot. The victim was...

The shooting at the corner of Seaver Street and Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury was fatal.

As the temperature rises, crime typically does too, but Boston Mayor Kim Janey is working to prevent that this year.

Members of Dorchester’s religious community called on Boston’s mayoral candidates to explain how they’d end gun violence after the shooting of a 73-year-old grandmother was fatally shot on her porch.

Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds gives the latest updates on the killing of eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors.

A 17-year-old girl was killed in a shooting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Boston overnight, authorities said Friday. Boston police and EMS found the person shot around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, according to police. She was pronounced dead at the scene, identified at the hotel, which is near the Boston Common. The medical examiner’s office was there overnight....

Two shootings broke out in Boston overnight; one downtown outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel and another in Dorchester, officials confirmed.

A man was taken to the hospital after police responded to two shootings around the same time in Lynn, Massachusetts Tuesday night. Police received several calls for gunshots in the area of East Highland Street just after 11 p.m. Shortly after, an officer was flagged down by a driver with the victim on Eastern Avenue. An 18 year-old man was in...

Police received several calls for gunshots in the area of East Highland Street just after 11 p.m. Shortly after, an officer was flagged down by a driver with the victim on Eastern Avenue. An 18 year-old man was in the car with several gunshot wounds to his legs. He was taken to Mass. General Hospital.

Eight people were hurt in three separate shootings in Boston over a span of 24 hours, according to authorities. The latest shooting happened after midnight Monday on Jette Court in Brighton. Three men were taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries. Several hours earlier, two people were shot in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood, Boston Police said. Investigators found multiple shell…

Eight people were hurt in three separate shootings in Boston over the past 24 hours.

After someone attempted to kill Monica Cannon-Grant’s son, she quit nursing school, became an activist and started Violence in Boston Inc. to help victims of violence. Last week, the organization opened its first physical space to provide free legal and mental health assistance, a food pantry and other services for victims and families in need.

A private security guard working for a TV station was in custody Saturday after a person died from a shooting that took place during dueling protests in downtown Denver

Recent shootings of police officers and protests that have left scores of officers injured are stark reminders of the dangers facing law enforcement as the country grapples with police killings of African Americans.

Police opened fire at suspects as they ran from the scene of a shooting in Roxbury that put a man in the hospital with life-threatening injuries overnight.

Shootings are up by more than 20% in Boston this year and more than 15% over the five-year average through the same period last year, according to police data. An impassioned Mayor Marty Walsh addressed the violence Thursday, spurred by this week’s shooting of an immigrant convenience store clerk during a robbery in Roxbury and the fatal shooting of a…

A security force member was injured during an active shooting Thursday morning at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.