Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers is accused of assaulting a woman “right after a sexual encounter,” according to court ...

A licensed firearm dealer who had been operating at the Littleton Mill, among nearly 80 gun retailers, was sentenced to two ...

Boston police are asking the public to help them identify a suspect they say was involved in a stabbing in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood on Thursday. The stabbing happened on Jan. 9 around 8:45 p ...

New York City is imposing a controversial new driving tax on vehicles headed south of Central Park or into Manhattan from New ...

But it’s also a fact that overall crime ticked up ever so slightly —by one percentage point— last year, driven by more aggravated assaults, commercial burglaries, and larcenies. All is not perfect, ...

As New Orleans seeks to recover from the deadly, Islamic State-inspired truck attack, law enforcement and community leaders ...

Boston police say state and local laws prevent them from detaining a person solely based on immigration status.

The Boston Police Crime Lab is suffering from a long-term leadership void and low morale, according to a state oversight board.

Honorable thieves, shady crooks, two-bit conmen, and more often than not, lots of money (or something equally valuable) at ...

A vanishingly small number of violent sex crimes end in conviction, NBC News investigation shows Less than 4% of reported rapes, sexual assaults, and child sex abuse allegations in certain cities ...

"You have to start screening better at the door, and that’s what needs to be done," state House Speaker Ronald J. Mariano, D-3rd Norfolk, said.

A Guatemalan national living in Lowell faces a $1 million bail after being charged in Suffolk Superior Court with rape of a ...