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The Dorchester Historical Society has just re-published the journal of a young woman’s account of life here in the 1870s. The society will mark the book’s release a week from Sunday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m., at the Carpenters ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports they are looking for Jackson Barros, 30, of Dorchester, in connection with today's early morning raids aimed at breaking up two Dorchester gangs involved in drugs and guns.

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Several hundred Boston police officers and federal agents descended on Dorchester early Thursday, arresting some 30 alleged members of the Woodward Avenue and Hendry Street gangs in a bid to quell violence in the Bowdoin/ ... Read more.

Touching on education reform, sentencing legislation, and neighborhood issues like “problem properties,” Mayor Thomas Menino this week rolled out 49 bills he’d like to see passed at the State House. Nearly half of the ... Read more.

“It’s organized chaos!” a jovial Kevin Hayes, Sr., exclaimed last Wednesday evening as scores of Mites, Mighty Mites, and Squirts, some on the ice and some waiting ever so patiently for a line change, bubbled over with ... Read more.

The Patrick administration this week laid out a menu of transportation funding options, setting the groundwork for potential tax increases to finance improvements and expansions in a deficit-stricken system.

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A Weymouth man who was allegedly spotted buying heroin off Columbia Road around noon on Sunday was stopped by pursuing police, before he drove away, dragging an officer down the street. The suspect was later arrested on ... Read more.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his most memorable speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the momentous March on Washington in August 1963. That makes the year 2013 the 50th Anniversary of King’s oft-quoted words ... Read more.

Concerned about how the expansion of the South Bay Mall might affect close-by neighborhoods, the McCormack Civic Association, the group that deals with concerns in the Polish triangle and nearby areas, will hold a ... Read more.

The city’s School Committee would be converted into a hybrid group of elected and appointed officials, under a bill District 3 Councillor Frank Baker filed this week.

The home rule petition splits the panel into a ... Read more.

A Weymouth man who allegedly put a Boston cop in the hospital by dragging him with his car yesterday made bail ... Read more.

Resident signals firefighters

Boston firefighters responded around 4:15 p.m., Sunday, to what became a three-alarm fire at 5 Everett Ave..

Two residents became trapped by the fire. Firefighters rescued both, but not before they suffered smoke ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a Weymouth man spotted buying heroin off Columbia Road in Dorchester around noon Sunday stopped for pursuing police, then drove away - dragging an officer down the street.

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The Boston Police Department reports arresting two men and a woman on charges they used a sawed-off shotgun to rob a man from his phone and a large amount of cash late Wednesday night in the parking lot of the Walgreens ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports arresting two local men on charges they forced people leaving a Livingstone Street apartment Thursday morning back inside at gunpoint, ordered them to lay on the floor and then ... Read more.

The latest phase of the Boston Archdiocese’s ongoing reorganization, announced on Thursday, did not include any Dorchester parishes. In a release, Cardinal Sean O’Malley said he formally accepted the plan, which over time ... Read more.

The entire state is in the midst of what appears to be a higher-than-usual influenza epidemic, but state officials said there is no need to declare a public health emergency as Boston Mayor Tom Menino did yesterday. ... Read more.

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