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In a rare move for a little league team, but deemed highly appropriate considering the circumstances, Savin Hill Little League retired the number 8 jersey in honor of former Savin Hill Little League player Martin Richard ... Read more.

The Transit Police Department reports two people were stabbed around 12:45 p.m. on the Ashmont platform at Shawmut on Wednesday, in an incident that might have started as a dispute on an Orange Line train.

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Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz remembers the funeral of 14-year-old Jaewon Martin, an honor student who was shot and killed the day before Mother’s Day in 2010 while playing on a basketball court in Jamaica Plain.

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The MBTA’s Red Line subway service in Dorchester will be replaced with buses this weekend as the transit agency completes “necessary track and signal work.” Buses will run along Dorchester Avenue between JFK-UMass and ... Read more.

In a new lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Attorney General Martha Coakley alleges two major lenders and federal regulators violated the state’s 2012 foreclosure prevention law, asserting that their "refusal to ... Read more.

After surviving last week’s deliberations in the Senate, legislators’ amendments to the budget proposals are now mostly out of their hands as the differences between the House and Senate versions are ironed out in the ... Read more.

Charles-Peterson withdraws from ballot in Fifth Suffolk

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A Brighton-based charter school that focuses on a “music-infused education” will move into the old Laboure College building on the campus of Carney Hospital this summer with plans to open for classes in September. ... Read more.

For a solid hour last Thursday, the horns blared. In a planned protest of the unregulated operation of Uber-X and Uber-XL, the outfit that people call on a smartphone to summon a car or an SUV and a driver when they need ... Read more.

Although he supports specific gun-related provisions in House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s new bill aimed at reducing gun violence, Rep. Russell Holmes intends to add amendments to the package when it comes to the House floor ... Read more.

A program aimed at improving athletics programs within the Boston Public School system has made strides since its foundation in 2009. The Boston Scholar Athletes program, launched with help from former Mayor Tom Menino ... Read more.

Visitors to the Dorchester Historical Society were given free rein to explore the nooks and crannies of some of Dorchester’s first houses at the Society’s “Behind the Scenes” event on May 18. All of the homes and ... Read more.

Mayors of Boston, Braintree, Cambridge, Quincy, and Somerville are marketing the Red Line as the spine of the region’s “Life Science Corridor,” with Dorchester at its heart.

Those five municipalities contain about ... Read more.

Earlier this month, Mayor Martin Walsh appointed William Christopher to serve as the next commissioner of the city’s Inspectional Services Department. A longtime Savin Hill resident – and a Tuttle Street neighbor of Walsh ... Read more.

Like the Dorchester Day parade at 1 p.m. next Sunday, Boston City Singers’ (BCS) upcoming 19th season finale concert will mirror the diverse cultures and talents of our community with its 6:30 p.m. concert at First Parish ... Read more.

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