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When Mayor Thomas Menino said he would not attempt to add another four-year term to his 20-year tenure, there was little doubt that Dorchester state Rep. Marty Walsh would take a crack at the seat opening up on City Hall’ ... Read more.

Nine of the candidates aiming to capture the seat Mayor Thomas Menino will be leaving at the end of the year met under a church steeple on Monday night, introducing themselves to voters and honing their talking points. ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports delivery men for two separate Chinese restaurants were held up on the same street last week.

Around 1:40 p.m. on May 1, a delivery worker for Hong Kong Chef on ... Read more.

Giant swarm

A Dorchester resident captured a large swarm of bees swarm the back of an unfortunate car on Stoughton Street at Sumner Street in Uphams Corner, shortly before 4 p.m. on Monday.

The resident, who goes ... Read more.

22 Gaylord St. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department blames "careless disposal of smoking material" for a two-alarm blaze at 22 Gaylord St. Thursday afternoon that displaced two people and did an estimated $200,000 in damage.

The fire broke ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino’s decision not to seek reelection, the death of her longtime husband, and a lengthy list of accomplishments during her tenure drove Superintendent Carol Johnson’s thinking about retirement, she said ... Read more.

A wide range of Dorchester theater artists–many of them from the talent-rich Savin Hill–are in last-minute rehearsals for upcoming performances in both professional and semi-professional local musical shows.

This ... Read more.

As voters trickled into the polls across the city on Tuesday, mayoral hopefuls flooded the Election Department office to pick up nomination papers and begin to gather the signatures needed to make it onto this fall’s ... Read more.

State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry of Dorchester hardly flinched in the mid-evening hours of Tuesday as The Boston Globe and the Associated Press were reporting that state Rep. Nick Collins, her opponent from South Boston, ... Read more.

Emerging from a primary campaign that lacked the intensity many anticipated, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey held off delegation mate Rep. Stephen Lynch in Tuesday's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, moving on to face former ... Read more.

State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry on Tuesday eked out a win in a three-way Democratic primary as part of a special election to replace former state Sen. Jack Hart in the First Suffolk Senate District seat, her campaign said ... Read more.

A Mattapan 14-year-old was arraigned for arson Monday for allegedly setting the front door of the Chez Vouz roller rink on Rhodes Street on fire Saturday night after she was denied entry, the Suffolk County District ... Read more.

As voting got underway Tuesday, ballots that did not include the state Senate race for the First Suffolk District were discovered in two wards in South Boston, according to campaign staff and the Secretary of State's ... Read more.

Predicting about 750,000 of the roughly 4 million eligible voters will cast a ballot in the Democratic and Republican primaries for an open U.S. Senate seat, Secretary of State William Galvin said he hopes a last minute ... Read more.

A newspaper ad featuring a photo of Gov. Deval Patrick and a candidate for the vacant First Suffolk Senate seat is “misleading,” Patrick said Sunday.

“This past week, a group calling itself Communities United PAC ... Read more.

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