




Allan and Joycelyn Edwards spoke to the celebrants at the event on Sept. 20.
Police say the armed suspect drove at officers and struck a cruiser while trying to flee a traffic stop last evening.

The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved plans by Frank Delaney and Teresa Murphy to replace the short-lived Scobie’s, 782 Adams St. in Dorchester, with the Session House, which will feature Irish pub grub accompanied by Irish seisiún music – much of it by local musicians.
Police say the armed suspect drove at officers and struck a cruiser while trying to flee a traffic stop last evening.

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.

Judge Toiya Taylor presided at a community swearing-in ceremony for Councillor Miniard Culpepper on Jan. 10 in Roxbury.

US Sen. Ed Markey and US Rep. Ayanna Pressley want to eliminate so-called “qualified immunity” for ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers in the wake of last week’s killing of a Minnesota woman, who was shot by an ICE agent on Jan. 7.

John Barros, a businessman and former economic development chief under former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, was appointed to lead the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority last Friday (Jan. 9).

A Jamaica Plain man is being held without bail on charges that he deliberately set a fire that largely destroyed his relative’s Washington Street home after an argument on Christmas Day.

A developer intends to raze the Little House building on East Cottage Street and replace it with a six-story building that would house a 42-unit “extended-stay” hotel.

American Ancestors will host a Boston book launch for genealogist André Kearns’s new book, Finding Cornerstone Stories: Uncovering Inspiration in Your Family’s History, on Friday, Oct. 16, from 5 to 6 p.m. at 97 Newbury St. in Boston.
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