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On the field, Liam Ryan wasn’t a late bloomer – it just took people a little while to notice he’d already blossomed.

The 20-year-old Neponset native and lacrosse standout at Rivier University in Nashua, NH, scored ... Read more.

The state Senate unanimously passed a $39.558 billion budget for fiscal year 2017 last Thursday, capping three days of debate that resulted in a bill slightly above the $39.508 billion House budget that passed on April 27 ... Read more.

Cross Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry off your list of potential 2017 Boston mayoral candidates.

“What? No,” the Dorchester Democrat said when asked whether she had given any consideration to running for the office. “We’ ... Read more.

This Sunday at noon, runners from all over Dorchester will take part in the annual Project D.E.E.P. and Blarney Stone Dorchester Day 5K.

Event planners from Project D.E.E.P., the Dorchester Educational Enrichment ... Read more.

The annual Little Miss/Young Miss Dorchester contest was held May 14 at the First Parish Church on Meetinghouse Hill. The event is held each year in the spring for girls ages 7 to 12.  The purpose of the event is to ... Read more.

Arthur Samuels, who once ran Bank of America's Fields Corner branch, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution for his role in ... Read more.

The National Parks of Boston will unveil and dedicate a replica a cannon brought to Dorchester Heights from Fort Ticonderoga during the 1776 Siege of Boston this Saturday morning at 11 a.m. The cannon will remain on ... Read more.

Beantown Athletics on Granite Avenue serves a host of sports-related needs for the neighborhood all year-long. This week, they are busy outfitting Dorchester for our biggest celebration of the year: Dorchester Day.

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The Boston Police Department reports a man was fatally shot around 10:20 p.m. at 131 Devon St., near Columbia Road, around 10:20 p.m. on Saturday.

Police found the man, shot in the chest, at 152 Stanwood St., which ... Read more.

Fifty years ago, Jack Cunningham, a pilot in the US Marine Corps, was a crew member of the presidential helicopter Marine One that ferried Lyndon B. Johnson and his staff to their destinations.

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Command Sgt. Maj. Curtis Johnson, a Dorchester native, retired after 32 years of active service in the US Army on May 13 with a ceremonial send-off at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.

The 51-year-old ... Read more.

It is an all-too common pattern in the world of real estate: Small, occupied properties enter the market and are immediately snapped up by owners or investors. The investors empty the properties by evicting tenants, ... Read more.

Boston's list of distressed properties is a few Dorchester homes lighter this year. Two properties in the neighborhood are headed toward rehabilitation and refurbishment, according to the Department of Neighborhood ... Read more.

Community members will have another chance to comment on the Indigo Block redevelopment project next Wednesday when the Boston Redevelopment Authority will be presenting an update on the long-vacant 2.75-acre site in ... Read more.

Lower Mills Tavern will open next week

Dorchester’s newest restaurant, the Lower Mills Tavern, will officially open its doors next week, just in time for Dorchester Day.  It’s worth the wait ... Read more.

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