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Week in Review: Man Charged After Incident Outside Kerry Home

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Man Charged With Public Drinking Outside Kerry's Home

Boston Police released more information Monday on the arrest of a West Roxbury man who was allegedly taking pictures of the windows with a pellet gun in his vehicle outside U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's Beacon Hill home Sunday.

According to police, the man, Vladimir Romanov, 29, of West Roxbury, faces a charge of drinking alcoholic beverages in public, for which he was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court Monday.

Should a Chestnut Street Home Be Demolished?

Amidst one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Boston, a debate is raging about what should happen to a home whose owners have received an order to demolish it.

On Thursday, the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission held a public hearing on plans for 124 Chestnut St., according to their agenda, that include a new single-family house.

Investigators Match DeSalvo DNA to Sullivan Crime Scene

After a 49-year wait, the mystery of the Boston Strangler murders may have come close to an end.

Officials announced "scientific certainty" that the confessed Boston Strangler, Albert H. DeSalvo, was the source of seminal fluid evidence found at the murder scene of Mary Sullivan in 1964, according to a press release from Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley's office Friday.

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