

Andre Mills, a Dorchester native who attended the Mather Elementary School and then St. John Paul II Catholic Academy on Columbia Road as a youth, today is a redshirt freshman playing point guard on the University of Maryland’s basketball team.

A program aimed at training Doulas is accepting new applications through the end of the month.

Dorchester’s Debra Farrar-Parkman tells the story of her uncle Reed Peggram, a gay Black man who was targeted and detained by fascists in Italy in the 1940s.

A group of neighbors, with the support of St. Gregory’s pastor, Rev. Jack Ahern, has launched an effort to help neighbors struggling with food insecurity this season.

Two children under the age of two have died from flu-related illness in Boston in recent weeks, according to the city’s top health official.

State Sen. Liz Miranda wants Gov. Healey to take action after a 32-year-old prisoner died during an incident that Miranda described as a “potential homicide” at the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay on Dec. 8.

Gilbert O’Neil and Uyen Le, who met on a dating app and enjoyed a whirlwind romance over the last year, officially became an engaged couple earlier this month on the rocky hilltop of Dorchester’s Savin Hill Park.
