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Neighbors will splash in the new year on Tues., Jan. 1 with the second annual Brian Leahy Memorial Polar Bear Plunge at Tenean Beach. The event is a fundraiser for the Leahy-Holloran Community Center in Neponset.

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U.S. Sen. John Kerry will go before his colleagues in the United State Senate for confirmation as the country’s next secretary of state after President Barack Obama made his nomination official on Friday at a press ... Read more.

Gov. Deval Patrick predicted movement in the state Legislature next session on stalled gun control legislation, drawing a distinction between weapons used for sport and hunting and those designed first and foremost for ... Read more.

Fields Corner organizations should focus on improving the area’s existing housing stock, create up to 300 units of new affordable housing, and upgrade vacant business spaces, according to a report from a Massachusetts ... Read more.

One of Dorchester’s most deeply-rooted financial institutions is set to expand its footprint in the city of Boston. Meetinghouse Bank, fueled by a first-ever public stock offering that generated millions in new capital, ... Read more.

On her first day on the job, ahead of the crush of rush hour, MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott held court on a subway platform Monday, heralding the arrival of new countdown clocks, and forecasting the transportation ... Read more.

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Irish tykes in 1907 aboard the RMS Carpathia steaming from Liverpool to New York wail their dismay when they learn that they’ll still be shipboard on ... Read more.

City officials have started work trying to figure out where to allow the medical-marijuana dispensaries approved by voters in a referendum last month.

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City Hall’s top lawyer clashed with District 4 Councillor Charles Yancey on Tuesday afternoon, accusing him of “grandstanding” and calling the councillor’s hearing on the racial make-up of city departments a “farce.” The ... Read more.

City officials have started work trying to figure out where to allow the medical-marijuana dispensaries approved by voters in a referendum last month.

At a hearing earlier this week led by City ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a gun-toting man refused entry into the Lilla G. Frederick Middle School on Columbia Road by officers Monday afternoon snuck back in to continue an argument with somebody at basketball ... Read more.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Dwayne Moore guilty of killing three adults and a toddler on Sept. 28, 2010.

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Champree Dinkins, 24, was ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bail Thursday on charges related to an early morning crash Saturday that sent two pedestrians to the hospital - one of them dying just hours before her ... Read more.

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