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Boston Police said Tuesday afternoon that Pierre Emmanuel, 32, of Dorchester, missing since Monday night, was located near Maverick MBTA station in East Boston.

Emmanuel, who has Down syndrome, was transported to a ... Read more.

As advocates for urban communities laid out the challenges facing black residents in Boston - in health care, education and criminal justice - Gov. Deval Patrick described Monday a "very different Boston" than the one he ... Read more.

Boston Police report finding Alessa Castellon, 21, shot to death around 3:05 a.m. at 50 Granger St.

Junior Fernandes, 22, of Dorchester, was arrested on charges of murder, unlawful possession of a firearm and ... Read more.

Warning that the extreme heat conditions now being experienced in Boston "can cause regular activities to quickly become dangerous situations,” Mayor Menino this afternoon extended a heat advisory for another day. ... Read more.

Food trucks are on their way to Dorchester and Mattapan. Starting next month, expect one to be stationed at the Ashmont MBTA stop on Friday afternoons; another could soon come to the Mattapan T station.

“We figured ... Read more.

After playing “Dirty Water” by The Standells on his radio webcast, Russ “Rusty” LeBlanc expresses a sentiment shared by many of his listeners. “Not crazy about the water. I like the town, though.”

LeBlanc hosts the ... Read more.

St. Peter’s parishioners and Bowdoin-Geneva neighbors voiced both strong support and opposition during a discussion last Wednesday on the development of the parish’s former convent, located at the western end of the St. ... Read more.

As the future of Boston’s few remaining clam diggers comes into question with impending construction around Logan Airport, some in Boston have taken up the cause to revitalize he city’s wetlands, especially the areas ... Read more.

An end came to Dorchester’s worst-kept political secret on Tuesday morning when City Councillor Maureen Feeney formally announced her pick for the District 3 seat she has held since 1993. Feeney, who declined to run for ... Read more.

Nhu Nguyen and Derek Matulina were once friends who fell out over money Nguyen felt Matulina owed him for a drug transaction, Suffolk County prosecutors said today. When the two crossed paths at the Savin Hill T stop on ... Read more.

The Department of Conservation is advising the public about road closures in South Boston on Thursday, July 21 for the annual L. Street Road Race.

The roads to be closed are: Mt. Vernon Street and ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports three men were stabbed in a fight Monday afternoon at 324 Talbot Ave.

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The Boston Police Department says an argument over a blocked driveway on Olney Street Saturday morning ended with one man punching his neighbor in the face and firing a gun at him before unblocking the driveway by jumping ... Read more.

The Boston Fire Department reports the Venezia Rrestaurant in Port Norfolk lost power Saturday morning when a wall at a storage building under demolition next door collapsed, taking power lines down with it.

Nobody ... Read more.

Law enforcement officials are stepping up efforts to draw out tips from neighborhood residents with information on crimes, with launch of a multi-platform ad campaign that says the program guarantees tipsters’ anonymity ... Read more.

A 20 year-old Dorchester man has been arrested and charged with the June 26th murder of 25-year-old Aaron Wornum near Edward ... Read more.

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