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The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center- Boston will celebrate its fifth year this month with a series of promotions and free activities starting on June 20 and highlighted by an outdoor carnival and ... Read more.

Ventura Park in Lower Mills, languishing still without the repairs promised in 2015, will finally see some improvement, said state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry and state Rep. Dan Cullinane after a meeting with Department of ... Read more.

The Dorchester House Tour was a smash on Sunday, organizers and homeowners said, with hundreds of people traipsing through the neighborhood’s Victorian homes on a warm and sunny afternoon.

Vicki Rugo with the ... Read more.

Tonight's annual event known as the Donna Summer Memorial Roller Disco Party returns to City Hall Plaza with a little word play in its name: “Celebration of Summer III,” hailing both Boston’s highest-grossing recording ... Read more.

Catholic Charities held a breakfast fundraiser at the office of Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP in the Seaport District last Thursday morning to benefit the Teen Center at St. Peter’s. The event’s co-hosts included Fr. ... Read more.

The Boston Redevelopment Authority’s board of directors last week approved the Indigo Block, a proposal that will transform a former East Cottage Street factory into a mix of affordable housing and commercial uses. The $ ... Read more.

A Dorchester District Court probation officer who had just been indicted for the rape and assault of a woman in his charge died Tuesday afternoon in a car crash in Randolph. William Averill, 50, of West Roxbury was due to ... Read more.

The women who gathered in Fields Corner were bonded by violence and loss. A grandmother who had lost her grandson and five mothers who had lost their sons in shootings sat in the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute ... Read more.

As students at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School began and ended their Monday this week, five days after 17-year-old Raekwon Brown, a junior at the school, was fatally shot less than a block away, they entered the tall ... Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday considers a proposal for a package store that would specialize in beer and wine from "exotic" locales, in particular the Caribbean and Cape Verde.

Joel Nunez's proposed Nunez ... Read more.

A Suffolk County grand jury has indicted a probation officer at Dorchester District Court on three counts each of rape and indecent assault and battery and one count of assault with intent to rape.

William Averill ... Read more.

A Boston Police detective and a manager at the Russell Auditorium say a man stabbed repeatedly outside the Talbot Avenue facility on May 7 was apparently attacked in revenge for a rape for which he was convicted about ... Read more.

A man was found shot to death behind a block of stores on Blue Hill Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. The unidentified victim was discovered in the area of 1186 Blue Hill Ave. just before 12:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead at ... Read more.

The public is invited to attend a free celebration of Juneteenth at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts on Wed., June 15. Various works of art such as graffiti, fashion showcases, and performing artists will be showcased ... Read more.

An American Revolution-era flag was unveiled on Monday in the Castle Island exhibit at the Commonwealth Museum on Columbia Point. It will be on temporary display in Dorchester until mid-August.

The 13-star banner ... Read more.

Community members stood outside the Burke school on Tuesday afternoon to greet exiting students with cheers of solidarity. The afternoon event follower a similar action staged this morning, in which men and women gathered ... Read more.

Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday highlighted steps being taken by law enforcement to increase security around Massachusetts and downplayed any connection between the attacker responsible for this weekend's mass shooting at an ... Read more.

A Mattapan man who raped and murdered his next-door neighbor in 2011 will not get a new trial. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court upheld Eldrick Broom’s 2013 first-degree murder conviction on Monday. Broom was found ... Read more.

This afternoon (Thurs., June 9), and then again on Saturday evening, four young actors including Dot’s Makiya Polk will bring to life the harrowing reality of the youth sex-trafficking crisis around the world and even in ... Read more.

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