Police Commissioner

Two big-city school systems have responded differently today to a threat of violence in schools. Officials in Los Angeles responded by shutting down the entire district. But New York officials dismissed the threat as an amateurish hoax, and held class as usual...

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...

Boston's Police Commissioner says a 34-year-old homeless man with a violent history has been arrested in the stabbings of two city Park Rangers on Boston Common, the nation's oldest public park. Commissioner William Evans said Bodio Hutchinson attacked the unarmed Rangers in what the Commissioner said was an unprovoked confrontation...