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The deplorable proliferation of firearms in this country is beyond resolution. The cat is out of the bag, Pandora’s box has been opened, and the fat lady has sung. For years now we have witnessed mass killings, and after ... Read more.

Morrison Mahoney LLP, a regional law firm headquartered in Boston that has partnered with Cristo Rey Boston’s work study program since 2014, chose to work with students at the Savin Hill school to create a 75th ... Read more.

It was 3 a.m. sometime in 1979, and Bishop John Borders III was sitting in a hotel room in Switzerland with other members of his band “The Energetics” at a crossroads in his life that would soon take him out of the bright ... Read more.

At 3 Melville Ave., Kava Realty’s Johnny Ho has succeeded in completing a masterpiece of renovation and new construction in replacing a crumbling structure that was a blight on one of Dorchester’s premier thoroughfares. ... Read more.

A new six-story building is expected to house 70 studio units and nearly 2,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space at 1320 Dorchester Avenue, under a Fields Corner proposal approved last Thursday (Feb. 16) by the ... Read more.

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is a Ben Franklin maxim advocated in public health. Preventing or finding and treating a disease before it emerges lessens pain and suffering and reduces health care costs ... Read more.

President Biden made a stealthy, but stirring visit to Ukraine’s capital city on Monday, greeting the war-torn nation’s leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and touring Kyiv on foot as air raid sirens blared in the distance. It ... Read more.

Just up the hill from the Adams Street Branch Library and across from Thomas J. Kenney School on Oakton Avenue sits the historic Pierce House, which is treasured as one of the last surviving examples of 17th century ... Read more.

The long-delayed re-opening of the renovated Curley Community Center in South Boston continues to fall further behind schedule as workers wait for the delivery of essential equipment and furniture needed for operations ... Read more.

City Hall officials have placed an employee who worked in a violence prevention program on unpaid leave after learning he was arrested on Sunday. The worker allegedly led Boston police on a chase through Mattapan, and ... Read more.

Boston Public Schools (BPS) and city officials told parents and staff from the Shaw and Taylor Elementary Schools in Dorchester and Mattapan that they still plan to merge the two schools and would like to present the plan ... Read more.

The next pandemic with which the U.S. will have to contend is widespread and untreated trauma, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley said Tuesday.

Pressley met with Boston Marathon bombing survivors at a community health ... Read more.

Postal authorities and local police are alerting residents of Dorchester and Mattapan that they should be careful when using the United States Postal Service’s blue mailboxes, citing an increase in mail theft around the ... Read more.

The saga over a proposal to bring affordable housing next to the Shawmut MBTA Station will take another step toward a denouement as an advisory panel plans to meet and the close of the public comment period approaches. ... Read more.

Projects in Dorchester and Mattapan are set to receive millions in funding as part of a City Hall effort to create and preserve hundreds of income-restricted housing units.

Mayor Wu last week announced $67 million ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports two men were shot on Wilrose Street between Westwood Street and Puritan Avenue, around 7:40 p.m. on Tuesday

One victim was ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports the arrest of a local man on ... Read more.

Fire on Blue Hill Avenue

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to what turned into a two-alarm fire at ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department report a woman was found shot at 15 Fermoy Heights Ave. around 8:45 p.m. on Saturday. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Maura Healey and Jon Santiago

Gov. Maura Healey will tap Rep. Jon Santiago of Boston, a major in the U.S. Army Reserve, as the state's next veterans' services secretary, Healey announced Friday morning.

Santiago recently returned from an ... Read more.

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