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Boston School Board Members Resign After Racist Text Messages Emerge Lorna Rivera told a colleague she was 'sick' of white parents Lorna Rivera / YouTube screenshot Alex Nester • June 9, 2021 2:49 pm SHARE Two Boston school board members resigned after text messages surfaced in which they said they were "sick" of the district's "delusional" white parents. Former Boston School Committee member Lorna Rivera said she was "sick of Westie whites" in a text message she sent to fellow former board member Alexandra Oliver-Davila during a committee meeting on admissions policies, the Boston G...

Multiple door locks were filled with a glue-like sticky substance that DeFazio says resembles caulk. At St. Teresa of Calcutta in Dorchester, the door locks were also filled with the same kind of material. It happened at the school next door, as well. A bike lock was placed over the door handles at the church. "I view it as a hate crime," said DeFazio. The statue has been vandalized multiple times over the last several months. "Last week somebody had ripped her hands off," he said. "We had just replaced her hands yesterday and cemented her to a concrete footing and she was knocked down."

Two Boston construction workers died Wednesday in what police and the city’s mayor are describing as a "tragic incident."

NBC10 Boston/NECN Two Boston men have been arrested in connection to an assault that happened last week at one of the city's MBTA stations, officials said Saturday. Transit police say Damos Reddick, 36, and Justin Mackenzie, 32, were arrested on Thursday for unarmed robbery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Around 9 p.m. Wednesday, transit police say a 38-year-old man was exiting the State Street station when he was attacked from behind by multiple men who punched and kicked him in h...

Two Boston city councilors are asking the newly installed police commissioner to publicly release updates about any investigations into Boston officers who may have attended the U.S. Capitol riot in January. The councilors also called for hearings into the implementation of state and local police reforms, including the city's new oversight agency, the Office of Police Accountability and Transparency, or OPAT. The recommendations say OPAT, which will investigate citizen complaints against police and internal police investigations conducted by the department, will be up and running by July. L...