A city councilor and two state lawmakers representing South Boston are denouncing the “disgusting” desecration of American flags at the Korean War Memorial and a military statue Tuesday night.

Police are searching for the vandals who took down American flags honoring veterans in South Boston. The flags were torn up and thrown on the ground.

Boston police are investigating an assault in the Theater District early Saturday morning that left a man hospitalized.Officers who found a man<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

The family of a teen killed in a police chase in Boston sues for $30 million, alleging officers disobeyed orders to cease the chase, resulting in the fatal crash.

Seven years, four months, and six days. That is the length of time the Boston Police Department allowed an internal affairs (IA) case to linger before finally disciplining an officer accused of lying on the job and numerous other infractions.

Investigators tracked a suspect in a decades-old Boston murder case to a parking lot, where they nabbed his DNA from spit.

Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox reported homicides are up nearly 30% this year, as Mayor Michelle Wu continued to tout Boston as the safest major city in the country at a year-end public safety briefing.

Boston Police have arrested Brian Keazer for a 1997 homicide; he was taken into custody in Jamaica Plain and is charged with the murder of Ruth Foster.

"Troy Winslow was robbed of his life and his endless potential," the lawsuit states. "The family continues to mourn the child he was and the man he would have become."

Brian Keazer, of Boston, was arrested around 12:15 p.m. Tuesday in Jamaica Plain. Keazer is accused of killing 56-year-old Ruth Foster, of Boston, on Oct. 14, 1997, according to Boston Police.