BOSTON, July 29 (UPI) -- A Boston police officer has been suspended for allegedly referring to black Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a racial slur, officials said.

BOSTON, April 23 (UPI) -- Law enforcement officials in Massachusetts are backing legislation making it illegal for gang members to hang out in public parks.

BOSTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Drugs seized by Boston police in hundreds of cases have disappeared during the past 16 years.

BOSTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A 15-year-old Boston youth faces an attempted murder charge after a high school football coach was shot in the leg during a dispute over a dog.

BOSTON, April 11 (UPI) -- A survey of Massachusetts teenagers found 38 percent had heard friends being threatened by gang members not to report a violent crime.

SONORA, Calif., July 29 (UPI) -- The family of William Nesler Thursday urged the California man to surrender to police to face charges he beat a man to death earlier this week.