Boston Police

Boston's police commissioner says a known drug dealer shot an officer in the leg during a traffic stop and was captured after a foot pursuit. The officer was taken to Boston Medical Center and is expected to survive. His name was not released...

(Associated Press) - Boston police say they spent nearly $750,000 on officer overtime during the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Police officials said Thursday that officers worked more than 13,000 hours of overtime helping secure the federal courthouse from January through May during the trial and on June 24 when Tsarnaev was sentenced to death...

The FBI says the terror suspect killed by law enforcement in Boston yesterday had discussed a plan to kill police officers. According to court papers, Usaamah Rahim had discussed the plan by cell phone with David Wright. Wright was arrested yesterday and is to appear in federal court this afternoon...

A Boston police officer who was shot in the face and critically injured during a traffic stop two weeks ago has been released from the hospital. Boston police said Saturday that 34-year-old Officer John Moynihan has returned home to continue recovery and rehabilitation...

A decorated Boston police officer shot point-blank in the face by a suspect was in stable condition at a hospital Sunday and improving after surgery to remove a bullet lodged below his ear, police said. Officer John Moynihan, 34, underwent several hours of surgery at Boston Medical Center, where he was upgraded from critical condition after he was shot Friday night...

Several thousand people rallied peacefully in Boston to protest a grand jury's decision to not charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man in New York City. Protesters blocked some city streets Thursday evening while marching to Boston Common, where the city's annual tree lighting ceremony was being held at the same time...

The U.S. Supreme Court is striking a blow for privacy rights. The high court ruled 9-0 today that police must obtain warrants before searching suspects' cellphones. Civil libertarians successfully argued that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution covered cellphones in insuring the right of individuals to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers or effects...

Marathon bombings hero and peace activist Carlos Arredondo has settled the brutality suit