South Boston

Police are investigating after a woman was shot in the leg in South Boston Thursday night. Boston police said it happened at W 7th and D streets. The woman’s injuries are not life-threatening. An investigation is ongoing. No further details were immediately available.

A day after a 4-year-old girl was killed by a pickup truck steps away from Boston Children’s Museum, the institution’s president released a statement mourning the girl’s loss. The incident occurred just after 5 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Congress and Sleeper streets in the Seaport District, Boston police said. Police haven’t identified the girl, but said she...

The St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been an annual tradition in South Boston for decades, but rowdy behavior associated with the festivities have a city leader calling for change. City Councilor Ed Flynn, whose district includes South Boston, says there needs to be a crackdown, including a zero-tolerance policy on public drinking, fighting, and destruction of property. “Over the...

Authorities say the arrest took place on Thursday at around 5 p.m. in the area of 40 W Seventh Street.

A bystander helped officers capture a woman accused of robbing two banks in South Boston on Wednesday, according to authorities. The woman was caught just after 11 a.m. Wednesday on Southampton Street, Boston police said. When officers to the bank arrived, they were told a woman wearing a thin black hoodie, blue jeans and a white disposable surgical mask had…

A man and a woman accused of leading police into a high-speed chase in South Boston last month are expected in court on Friday. Christopher Meade, 30, and Kailynn Almeida, 23, were driving around Dorchester on Dec. 12, when Boston police said they identified their SUV as a potential connection to a shooting that prompted the pursuit, which ended in…

A current church and a former church in South Boston were vandalized overnight in separate incidents, police said Thursday. A 61-year-old man is accused of throwing a rock through a window at the St. Monica Parish, breaking in around 3:45 a.m. Officers would find the man, later identified as Steven Cyr, sleeping in the basement. Father William Kennedy says there…

A 15-year-old South Boston boy with autism who was missing since Christmas has been found safe, according to the Boston Police Department. Police initially said the missing teen was found Tuesday after he was last seen at about 11 p.m. Monday in the area of Patterson Way in South Boston. On Wednesday, police said the 15-year-old was still missing. Later…

A man and a woman faced a judge Tuesday after leading police on a high-speed chase in an SUV allegedly tied to a shooting. The pursuit ended in South Boston and wound up with car parts scattered across the road. Cellphone video showed one of the suspects running away from police and tripping on a sidewalk before running into a…

A person was taken into custody Monday night after a chase that ended in South Boston, according to police. Details were limited, but the Boston Police Department said it was assisting after a vehicle fled from Massachusetts State Police. A Boston police cruiser was hit during the incident. Video showed a large number of state and city police vehicles on…

Two youths were stabbed and a third was also injured after an incident in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood Wednesday, with one of the stabbing victims suffering life-threatening injuries. Boston Police Superintendent Felipe Colon said the initial call came in around 5:46 p.m. as a report of a person struck at Tremont and Camden streets. When officers arrived they found two stabbing...

State police responded shortly before 7 a.m. on Monday.

A person’s body was found Monday morning at Carson Beach in South Boston, leading to a large police investigation. A number of police investigators were at the scene on the beach. They were called there shortly before 7 a.m., state police said. The person who died was a woman, according to police, who identified her as Megan Anderson, 29. Her…

Authorities are investigating a fatal crash between a minivan and a tow truck in South Boston late Saturday night. Mass. State Police say they responded to a crash on South Boston Bypass Road, east of Frontage Road at around 11:33 p.m. According to police investigation, a 2023 Chrysler Pacifica crossed over double yellow lines and struck a towtruck that was…

An electronic construction sign in South Boston was flashing the words “KKK Meeting Today,” over the holiday weekend, sparking an investigation by police in the city. According to a police report, the sign was spotted around D and Cypher Streets in Southie before 8 a.m. on Monday. Authorities who responded were able to turn the sign off. It wasn’t...

A 93-year-old woman died in what police described as an apparent drowning off Castle Island in South Boston Monday. State police said the woman was part of a private adult day care program and was at Pleasure Bay Beach with a group for a supervised trip. She went into the water with two friends that were also part of the…

A man was seriously hurt early Thursday morning after being hit by a vehicle on Columbia Road in South Boston, and the driver involved left the scene of the crash, according to Massachusetts state troopers. State police said that it responded to a report of a pedestrian being hit just before 2:30 a.m. on Thursday on Columbia Road at the…

Two people were found dead in South Boston Wednesday afternoon, police said, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the deaths were believed to be suspicious. The bodies on Patterson Way near Rev Burke Street were reported about 1:30 p.m., Boston police said. Police weren’t immediately able to offer more details on the circumstances around the deaths or if foul...

Authorities have released the official cause of death for a person who was found dead in a South Boston apartment in June. The Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety said in an email Monday night that the cause of death was “Acute intoxication due to the combined effects of cocaine and methamphetamine.” The manner of death was determined to be…

The office of Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden says it has launched an investigation into a death at a South Boston apartment from which four children were removed last month. The June 17 incident on Old Colony Avenue raised questions about transparency and whether the city’s police and fire departments are on the same page. “We are conducting a…