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St. Mark’s Area Main Street is shopping around for a food truck to serve neighbors at the Ashmont farmer’s market during the summer months. So far there has been some interest from a few vendors, but none have committed ... Read more.

It may be a quiet year for most Dorchester Democrats after all. Nomination signatures were due at local elections departments last week and the news is that few members of the neighborhood’s State House delegation will be ... Read more.

Residents in Lower Mills and Port Norfolk have in the last year complained and voiced frustrations over potential “sober homes” opening up in their neighborhood. But ... Read more.

At the Jeremiah E. Burke High School, daily attendance is 90 percent this year and the school has partnerships with UMass Boston and City Year, a civic-focused nonprofit. And once a year, 60 or so teachers and some 600 ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a Mascot Street youngster started up his mother's car and put it in revers Wednesday morning - causing it to roll across the street and slam into a neighbor's house at 64 Mascot: ... Read more.

Dean Street fire aftermath.

The Boston Fire Department reports investigators are still trying to figure out what sparked a two-alarm fire that damaged three addresses on Dean Street in Dorchester, displacing nine residents and sending two ... Read more.

Photos from FBI.

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.

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