The Boston Police Department reports two people were shot around 4:20 p.m., Thursday at 28 Michigan Ave.

One victim, a woman, was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The second victim, a man, is expected to survive, police say.

Around 11:35 p.m., a man got out of a car parked at Leroy and Ditson streets, walked down to 27 Leroy and shot a gun five or six times. He then go back in the car, described as a white Chevrolet Malibu or Impala and drove away with three other people in the car.

Police found a car with bullet damage.  Read more

An arbitrator says Carney Hospital has to rehire six of the twelve nurses it fired in 2011 in a scandal involving physical and sexual abuse of patients in its adolescent psychiatric unit.  Read more

State Reps. Linda Dorcena Forry and Nick Collins, former rivals who faced off in the April 30 Democratic primary, lunched on Beacon Hill this week, ahead of the general election to replace Jack Hart. Photo courtesy Dorcena Forry’s office.
Election season isn’t over yet: Voters will again go to the polls next week, this time to choose the person who will take over for former state Sen. Jack Hart.

Long viewed as the “Southie seat,” the First Suffolk District, which includes South Boston, Dorchester, Mattapan and a portion of Hyde Park, will see two Dorchester candidates squaring off on the ballot: state Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry, a Democrat, and political activist Joseph Ureneck, a Republican.

Dorcena Forry won an April 30 Democratic primary with 10,214 votes. State Rep. Nick Collins, a South Boston Democrat, picked up 9,836 votes, while Maureen Dahill, a blogger from South Boston, received nearly 1,600 votes.  Read more

State senators this week dove into a debate over their $33.9 billion version of the fiscal 2014 budget. The lawmakers were starting to rip through the hundreds of amendments as the Reporter went to press.
According to the State House News Service, the budget includes “$430 million in new taxes, $800 million in revenue growth and $627 million in reserves and one-time funding to support a $1.4 billion increase in year-to-year spending.”  Read more

Ramon Soto stood outside the Election Department on Tuesday, with his father on the phone, as the clock ticked toward the 5 p.m. deadline to get the last-minute lists of nomination signatures into the hands of elections officials.  Read more

Aman Stuppard

Roxbury Latin senior and Mattapan resident Aman Stuppard was honored with the Independent School League (ISL) Coaches’ Award for winning three events and placing third in another at the ISL Track & Field Championships last Saturday. One of four captains of the team, Stuppard led Roxbury Latin’s team on its way to defending its title at last Saturday’s ISL Championship at Milton Academy. Photo courtesy Roxbury Latin  Read more

Clayton Street — a busy sidestreet between Park and Freeport Streets near Fields Corner— will be closed to traffic this weekend as workers prepare to replace an aging bridge that carries trains on the Dorchester leg of the Red Line.

There will be no interruption to train service this weekend, although service will be halted — and replaced with buses—for three consecutive weekends in July and again in October’s Columbus Day weekend when a new span is scheduled to be installed. Clayton Street will be closed to thru traffic from May 25-27 while abutment tiebacks are installed. The existing steel bridge dates to 1911.  Read more

The tragic events of April 15 affected us all, but Dorchester was especially hard hit. Members of that community are pulling together with Hometown Comfort, an event to support our city and help it heal with the embrace of a hometown.  At the heart of that embrace will be a comfort food, dine around with as many as 25 area chefs preparing and sharing their version of comfort food.

The event is Sunday, May 19 at the IBEW Local 103 Hall, 256 Freeport St., Dorchester.  Read more

The state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation plans to create a new public square through the clean up of a decrepit Mattapan Square building, which once housed a mattress store but has become an eyesore on the city’s doorstep. The agency paid $400,000 for the former furniture store in 2010 and is expected to spend $300,000 to partially demolish and refurbish it this summer.

Joe Orfant, the department’s chief of planning and resource protection, called the work a “down payment” on the completion of the Neponset Greenway trail.  Read more

Ashmont Hill Chamber Music will present a benefit organ recital by native son Aaron Sunstein this Sunday at 4 p.m. at All Saints Church. Sunstein, a doctoral degree candidate at Indiana University, returns to Boston to perform this recital on the historic church’s magnificent C.B. Fisk organ. Tickets are $30, and in the spirit of AHCM’s commitment to community, complimentary tickets are available for those in need by contacting AHCM by email at info@ashmonthillchambermusic.org or phone at 774-573-0526.  Read more

The Senate's budget chief on Wednesday described differences between the House and Senate spending plans for fiscal 2014 as "incremental," but a quick review of the bill shows the branches taking different paths on education and welfare issues.

The $33.9 billion Senate budget proposal scrapped several significant policy proposals touted by House leaders intended to improve oversight and accountability over early education and the public welfare system.  Read more