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Pair charged with threatening law officers in YouTube video

Flashing obscene gestures at the camera and spewing curses at police, the two young men in the video might have just come off as disaffected ranters. Then they mentioned the names of specific officers, showed footage of a gun, and peppered their rap ...

From MARIA CRAMER, Boston Globe,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: American Civil Liberties Union

Detention diversion project at risk

For four years, hundreds of Boston children and teenagers picked up on charges such as assault and battery, robbery, and breaking and entering have been kept from incarceration and steered toward a community center in Roxbury. There, they have met with ...

From MARIA CRAMER, Boston Globe,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert F. Kennedy,  Deval Patrick

Hub police, hospital security chiefs meet

Boston police met yesterday with security chiefs from the city’s hospitals to discuss ways to make their facilities safer in the wake of several brutal crimes at hospitals in recent weeks. The meeting occurred less than two weeks after a psychiatrist ...

From MARIA CRAMER, Boston Globe,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Boston Medical Center,  Massachusetts General Hospital

Power to parents is main objective of new city ‘university’

In one room, six parents shuffled decks of cards and tossed plastic chips, learning a game that teaches kindergartners to count. In another, more than a dozen grandmothers and mothers received pointers on how to control their tempers and discipline the ...

From MARIA CRAMER, Boston Globe,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomas M. Menino,  Crips,  Bloods

4 terms later, for better or worse

The number of major crimes in Boston has dropped dramatically in the 16 years since Mayor Thomas M. Menino took office, an undeniable improvement that has given him the opportunity to tout a record low rate as he seeks reelection to an unprecedented ...

From MARIA CRAMER, Boston Globe,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Thomas M. Menino,  Michael F. Flaherty,  Harvard University

Guard offers prayers for slain victim’s kin

READING - The young security officer who fatally shot a patient who was attacking a doctor with a knife said yesterday that he was praying for the family of the slain man and for the recovery of the woman nearly stabbed to death. Paul M. Langone, a ...

From MARIA CRAMER, Boston Globe,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts General Hospital

DA says MGH shooting ‘justified’

Pinned to the floor by her enraged, knife-wielding patient, defenseless against his frenzied stabbing blows, Dr. Astrid Desrosiers could do nothing but scream. As clinic colleagues fled, another doctor tried to pull the 250-pound man off her, but fell ...

From PETER SCHWORM AND MARIA CRAMER, Boston Globe,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts General Hospital

‘The Wire’ sparks a connection

To the casual viewer, “The Wire’’ - the gritty HBO crime series set on the tough streets of Baltimore - might not seem like the kind of program that would inspire self-improvement. It featured gun-toting drug dealers, heartless thugs who murdered ...

From MARIA CRAMER, Boston Globe,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sonja Sohn,  HBO,  Greggs P.L.C.,  Harvard University,  Michael Williams

Menino campaign accused of playing hardball

As the organization representing minority police officers in Boston ramps up its attack on Mayor Thomas M. Menino, leaders say they have been warned by insiders in the mayor’s campaign to tone down their rhetoric or their members will face negative ...

From MARIA CRAMER, Boston Globe,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Larry Ellison,  Thomas M. Menino,  Michael F. Flaherty

Flaherty criticizes Menino on his role in Boston police

Mayoral candidate Michael F. Flaherty Jr. slammed Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday over his role in the Boston Police Department, saying the mayor has too much power over who is promoted to the top ranks of the police force. Flaherty accused Menino of ...

From MARIA CRAMER, Boston Globe,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Thomas M. Menino,  Michael F. Flaherty,  Kevin White,  Larry Ellison

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