The Department of Sanitation doesn’t have the resources or the training to cope with the onslaught of dirty needles facing public spaces like Richman, Feliz said. Feliz also said nearby ...

Joanne Cuffe (45) and an unidentified man armed with a stick threatened to stab the women with “dirty needles” unless they handed over money. The man punched one of the victims, while Cuffe ...

Shortly after sunrise, John Gobbi stepped gingerly across a sidewalk in Boston’s South End strewn with dirty and discarded drug needles. Every so often his work boots crushed another syringe ...