A Dorchester man has been taken into custody after reports of an armed person and gunfire set off an extensive search in the ...

The Dorchester County Fire Rescue and the SC Forestry Commission responded to the scene around 1:30 p.m. Upon arrival, crews ...

Organizers of the region’s biannual Chapel of Four Chaplains ceremonies, honoring four religious leaders who sacrificed their lives when an American transport ship was torpedoed and sunk during World ...

A man who died after being shot Jan. 21 on Ridgewood Street in Dorchester has been identified, according to police.

The Dorchester County Coroner’s Office released the name Thursday of an inmate who died during the first week of January at ...

The Dorchester County Coroner has named the man who died while incarcerated at the L.C. Knight Detention Center.

Boston police are investigating a shooting in Dorchester on Saturday night that left a person hospitalized.Officers responding to a reported shooting in<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

The state Parole Board voted 4-2 to grant release to Anthony Robinson, who was convicted in 1997 of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Barrington Nevins, according to a Jan. 22 ruling from ...

A man who died after suffering a medical episode at the Dorchester County jail was identified Thursday morning. Edward J.

A 49-year-old inmate died at the Dorchester county detention center on Jan. 29. The male has yet to be publicly identified.

A Dorchester man was arrested on several gun and drug charges after police said he crashed a vehicle into a nursery school in ...