The City of Boston is largely sticking to the same summer safety plan, despite police statistics that show shootings were up during the hottest months last year.

A Boston man who police say took an officer's gun and fired it, shooting himself, was arraigned Wednesday without a court-appointed lawyer, and more criminal defendants will likely follow. Here's why.

What exactly happened and why? Those questions still haunt the family of the Massachusetts State Police Academy recruit who died after a training exercise in September.

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Four teenagers accused of stealing vehicles in a Boston-area town were arrested after a police pursuit early Tuesday morning. The pursuit started after a Wellesley police sergeant found a parked car — that was running but with its lights off — in a lot at 4 Cedar St. at around 2:33 a.m. Tuesday, police said.