Boston can brag about being among the safest big US cities, but drug-dealing, shoplifting, and petty crime continue to plague the Boston Common and Downtown Crossing area.

Here's what supporters and opponents say, the resolution's own words, how each councilor voted and what's next for this controversial proposal.

In the fall of 1939, Provincetown, Massachusetts, was terrorized by what Provincetown Magazine calls a "beastly banshee" or ...