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The FBI reports the arrest of a Dorchester woman in connection with a string of recent bank robberies across Boston, including two in Dorchester. ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MAY 7, 2012…. House and Senate lawmakers negotiating a crime and sentencing bill are moving closer to an agreement over the list of crimes that would trigger a “three-strikes” elimination of parole ... Read more.

Boston Police are looking for a woman they say held up a Citizens Bank branch at 731 Morrissey Blvd. around 10 a.m. on Friday and then held up a Members Plus Credit Union branch at 494 Gallivan Blvd. about two hours later ... Read more.

Bye, bye Stanley. We hardly got to know ye again. Let’s hope it’s not another four decades before we re-new acquaintances.

On the other hand, it has been well more than two score years and counting since the ... Read more.

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Wrentham) is milking former Mayor Ray Flynn’s endorsement for all its worth. But how much it’s worth is an open question. Flynn, a registered Democrat from South Boston and former US ambassador to ... Read more.

A monthly meeting of Lower Mills business owners held last Thursday evening in the Carney Hospital boardroom focused on a still-emerging plan to convert four buildings on Washington Street into “sober” living quarters for ... Read more.

‘Innovation’ high school proposal awaits teacher OK

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Two Dorchester residents were arraigned Wednesday on coke trafficking charges after officials say they intercepted more than six pounds of the drug in packages mailed to them and an accomplice from California.

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During budget deliberations that stretched to midnight last Wednesday, House lawmakers added $1.7 million for youth jobs and $4 million for youth violence prevention programs.

“It put us in better shape than we ... Read more.

A Suffolk County Grand Jury has indicted a former Boston man in the Nov. 2011 double-murder of two Haitian-American sisters who were gunned down in their Dorchester apartment last November. The suspect, Jean Weevins ... Read more.

Members of Dorchester’s State House delegation could see challengers this year. Incumbents have pulled nomination papers from the Secretary of State Bill Galvin’s office, and so have several individuals looking to unseat ... Read more.

City Hall is teaming up with residents and merchants for a reinvigorated effort to reshape the Blue Hill Avenue corridor. Mayor Menino’s Neighborhood Response Team is working with local groups in an attempt to root out ... Read more.

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