A person was shot in the back and left side shortly after 7:20 p.m. at 73 Ridgewood St., off Draper Street in Dorchester. Read more.

Watertown News reports on Chief Justin Hanrahan's comments at a Martin Luther King Day breakfast yesterday.

The MBTA reports scads of problems on commuter-rail lines into South Station this morning due to trains with "mechanical issues," and switches with unspecified issues.

Boston Police report officers arrested a 15-year-old they say was in possession of "a Glock 43 with an extended magazine containing eight 9mm rounds" after they first stopped his driver, also 15, for ...