Kendra Lara

Former Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara entered a guilty plea more than a year after crashing into a house on Centre Street.

Former Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara has pleaded guilty to one of the several charges she faced in a Jamaica Plain car crash that left her son injured last summer, receiving probation in a case that caused a political scandal. Three of the other charges Lara faced were dismissed or continued without a finding, while a judge found her responsible…

Three of the 9 charges were dropped against Boston City Councilor Kendra R. Lara in connection to a Jamaica Plain crash last summer, according to the Boston Globe. The charges that were dropped were speeding, reckless driving and a seatbelt violation. Lara’s attorney is looking to have these remaining charges to also be dropped. Lara is still facing six more…

Tuesday’s Boston City Council preliminary election proved to be a shakeup for the city’s governing body, with two incumbent candidates conceding after both facing controversy and public scrutiny. Ricardo Arroyo and Kendra Lara will not be on the November ballot, following their concession in Tuesday’s race. Despite being incumbents, both Arroyo and Lara got less than half the number...

Embattled Boston City Councilors Ricardo Arroyo and Kendra Lara will not appear on the ballot in November’s general election after conceding in Tuesday’s preliminary

Two embattled city councilors will not be on the ballot in November’s general election.

Elections come this year as several city councilors deal with personal scandals.

In District 6, incumbent Kendra Lara is fighting controversy in order to keep her seat.

In the hours after polls closed Tuesday night in Boston’s preliminary election, two embattled incumbents conceded in their races: City Councilors Ricardo Arroyo and Kendra Lara. Thousands of Boston voters let their voices be heard in the election, which will narrow city council races to two candidates in four districts. The top two vote-getters in each preliminary race will...

Lara spoke with NBC10 Boston exclusively ahead of Tuesday’s preliminary election in Boston.

“I have gone over [in] my head how many different ways I could have handled this, and there were times where we could have maybe minimized the amount of times where I had to get behind the wheel,” Kendra Lara told NBC10 Boston of why she drove without a license.

Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara sat down with NBC10 Boston’s Sue O’Connell on Monday, a day before the city’s preliminary election, to discuss why she drove without a license, for which she’s been charged in a June crash in Jamaica Plain.

Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara shared her rationale for repeatedly driving without a license, including in a car crash in Jamaica Plain in June for which she’s facing charges, in an exclusive interview with NBC10 Boston. Lara is accused of driving with a revoked license in an unregistered, uninsured car with an expired inspection sticker that belonged to someone else...

Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara, running for reelection, is disputing some of the allegations against her after her crash into a house in Jamaica Plain.

Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara and her attorney are disputing the speed that Boston police accused her of driving in the moments leading up to a June crash that sparked political and criminal challenges for Lara. On Thursday evening, Lara and her attorney held a news conference, announcing that they had evidence to support that she was only driving 27…

Lara was involved in a crash over the summer, but on Thursday, she denied speeding at the time of the wreck and claims there’s proof.

A prosecutor is coming in from Worcester County to handle the car crash case against Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara, officials said Thursday. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office brought in the special prosecutor to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest — a representative for the Suffolk prosecutor’s office said the spouse of a person who works...

The lawyer representing Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara in the Jamaica Plain car crash that injured her son this June, for which she faces a slew of charges, has filed a motion to dismiss the case. Prosecutors opposed the motion to dismiss the charges against Lara for allegedly driving with a revoked license, in an unregistered, uninsured car with an…

Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara was back in court on Wednesday, seeking to have the case against her dismissed.

The Boston Ballot Law Commission held the hearing Tuesday to determine whether Kendra Lara lives in the district she represents, after four constituents challenged her residency.