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Boston police officer Michael Doherty (pictured) is facing assault, battery, and using a motor vehicle without authority charges for allegedly beating up a Hispanic and Black…

Four women in Boston have reported inappropriate behavior and touching while riding in gypsy taxis (acting as identifiable services like Uber) and one of the…

BOSTON (AP) — Marky Mark doesn’t want a black mark any longer. Actor Mark Wahlberg is asking Massachusetts for a pardon for assaults he committed in 1988 when he was a troubled teenager in Boston, saying he has dedicated himself to becoming a better person in his adult years so he can be a role […]

A homeless couple is facing assault and civil rights charges after they brutally attacked an unidentified black city worker. Both Robert Snyder, 45, and Shayla Witts, 28, reportedly left the victim bruised and bleeding when police got to the scene. According to police, the 29-year-old male employee tried to escort the intoxicated pair out of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation […]

Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington are the cities still in the running for a possible U.S. bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. A person briefed on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s decision-making process told The Associated Press that all four cities are still in consideration. The person requested anonymity because the USOC has […]

BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, who already faces a murder charge in a man’s shooting death last year, was also the gunman in an unrelated 2012 double slaying in Boston. The victims in that killing, Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, were shot to death as they sat in […]

BOSTON (AP) — Boston residents mourned the deaths of two firefighters who were killed when a fire driven by strong winds whipped through a brownstone and trapped them in the basement in a neighborhood just blocks from where nine city firefighters died in a 1972 hotel collapse. Tributes poured in for Lt. Edward J. Walsh, […]

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers approved legislation Thursday to crack down on those who secretly take photographs of “the sexual or other intimate parts” of women or children in public. Approval of the bill, which also would apply to male victims, came a day after the state’s highest court ruled that a man who took […]

03/07/14- Sybil Wilkes discusses today’s news headlines including the latest on the “upskirting” law in Massachusetts.

BOSTON (AP) — A man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of women riding the Boston subway did not violate state law because the women were not nude or partially nude, Massachusetts’ highest court ruled Wednesday. The Supreme Judicial Court overruled a lower court that had upheld charges against Michael Robertson, who was arrested […]

03/06/14- Sybil Wilkes discusses today’s news headlines including the latest on the “upskirting” law in Massachusetts.

Well say it how you mean it then! Mark Wahlberg who no longer wanted us all to call him Marky Mark…(remember that) well he finally…