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The Boston Police Department reports a man shot around 1:06 a.m., Friday, on Southern Avenue was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he died.

Channel 7 reports the victim was seen running from the ... Read more.

There is nothing like a trade, especially in baseball. Every kid perfects the delicate art in childhood with the wheeling and dealing of bubblegum cards. For baseball writers, conjuring deals — 99 percent of which never ... Read more.

The 16-team Safe Summer Streets Basketball League concluded play in late August with the championship games for all three divisions of play. In the opening game for the 4-team Girls division the Lady Cavs defeated the ... Read more.


‘Romeo and Juliet’ on Dot Ave.

Since 2010, Brown Box Theatre Project has been producing quality outdoor theater along the East Coast, including venues in New York, Maryland, and Delaware. Now ... Read more.

Voters will head to the polls today to cast primary ballots on a Thursday instead of a Tuesday.

Sept. 6 is the date, which also happens to be the first day of school in Boston, as well as the last day ... Read more.

The Commonwealth Care Alliance, founded in 2003 by Drs. Bob Master and Lois Simon, is a not-for-profit care delivery service for seniors 65 and older. Its Senior Care Options program is available to ambulatory and stay-at ... Read more.

Most of the spotlight this fall will focus on marquee races like the showdown between Republican US Sen. Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren.

But the November ballot will also present ... Read more.

City Councillor Rob Consalvo, state Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry, and Boston Parks Commissioner Antonia Pollak, City joined with Mattapan residents last Friday morning for the groundbreaking of Hunt Playground at Almont Park ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino is weighing a City Council-approved proposal that pushes the Polish Triangle and Carson Beach into Dorchester’s District 3, while splitting Lower Mills between Districts 3 and 4. The re-drawn map plan ... Read more.

While Massachusetts Republicans’ sojourn in Florida created no ripples in state government management this week, cooperation will be required to ensure someone is in charge on Beacon Hill when Democrats decamp for North ... Read more.

More than 1,000 Dorchester Reporter readers participated in our first-ever Dorchester’s Favorite Restaurants survey earlier this month. After receiving scores of nominations from Facebook and Twitter— we took your ... Read more.

Dotting the southern half of Dorchester Ave., three of the neighborhood’s finest restaurants also offer diners a taste of the outdoors along with some of the best menus in town. Customers from across Boston and beyond ... Read more.

Boston-based restaurateurs said this week they oppose the return of the so-called “happy hour,” a time when they would be allowed to serve free or temporarily discounted drinks. But some Dorchester operators feel ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a traffic stop near Dorchester High School Saturday afternoon turned into a violent struggle for one officer’s gun with a man who vowed not to go back to prison - from which he’d just ... Read more.

Meetinghouse Bank, Vargas and Vargas Insurance, the Lower Mills Merchants Association and State Rep. Linda Forry are among the Lower Mills leaders who joined together this week to help two families displaced by last ... Read more.

US Sen. Scott Brown traveled into the heart of deeply blue Dorchester last Thursday and sat down with a friendly audience of blue collar workers at an excavation company’s headquarters near Fields Corner.

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