



A 22-year-old Worcester man was ordered held on $250,000 bail at his arraignment in Dorchester court last week on a manslaughter charge in the fatal stabbing of 30-year-old Wesley Humphrey, also of Worcester.

The principal at Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy’s Columbia campus talks about the start of the school year.

Fresh Mediterranean flavors arrived in Dorchester last month when Thelo Mediterranean opened for diners at 860 Dot Ave, replacing Taqueria Casa Real’s tacos and burritos with gyros and souvlaki.

Collins won 43 precincts across the district, while Gayle prevailed in 39.

Jill Jamieson used the waters of Dorchester Bay at Carson Beach and Castle Island to train for long-distance swimming competitions.

A project that will create 72 new affordable apartments on Centre Street next to the Shawmut MBTA station was the subject of good news from state officials last week.

A frantic search for Milly, a 17-year-old blind and deaf dog who had wandered away from her fenced-in yard on Ashmont Hill home on Monday, ended happily on Monday.

He will remain at UMass Boston after a sabbatical, returning to the faculty and concentrating on research, writing, and teaching focused principally on climate resilience and the ethical use of artificial intelligence.

New plan keeps center-running buses, shifts bike lanes to west side of road, creates new parking and mainly keeps two lanes of traffic each direction.

“Massachusetts is famous for having uncontested races, and because of that, people really settle in because they think no one is watching,” Gayle told The Reporter.

Reflecting on his 10-point primary win over first-time candidate Latoya Gayle on Tuesday, state Sen. Nick Collins says his success with voters in the First Suffolk District was powered by his long-standing work on multiple fronts his strong working relationships with colleagues in government.

A developer plans to build a 4-and-a-half-story, 20-unit condo complex at 2062 Dorchester Ave. The building would replace a currently unoccupied two-family home.

The highly regarded portrait and landscape artist Vincent Crotty has shared his talents with the Dorchester community since settling down in the neighborhood in the 1990s, and this summer has been no exception.

A new study published last week shows that the number of Massachusetts residents with Caribbean heritage is close to 800,000, or 11 percent of the state’s population.

City councillor says “noise cameras” that can locate offending properties or vehicles and lead to fines as a way to crack down on trouble spots.