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Construction on the Neponset River bridge will be largely finished next week, and traffic is expected to return to the same level as before the project started, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation said this ... Read more.

Most of the proposals for revamping the school assignment process modestly improve black and Latino students’ access to quality schools, according to an analysis released by regional planning agency.

Boston Public ... Read more.

Jim Gilbert wanted to watch a Celtics pre-season game, but at the Banshee on Tuesday night, he was out of luck: Ten television screens were glowing inside the Dorchester Avenue bar as the clock turned past 9 o’clock and ... Read more.

Nostalgia permeated the fundraiser last Thursday night in which a few hundred members of Menino administrations past and present turned out to catch up and celebrate 20 years of dominance in City Hall. But there was also ... Read more.

District 7 Councillor Tito Jackson this week suggested moving most of Mattapan into Rob Consalvo’s District 5 while pushing the boundaries of Councillor Charles Yancey’s District 4 west into Roslindale.

Councillors ... Read more.

“I’m a very decent guy. I’m not a criminal.”

The suspect, handcuffed and surrounded by a half-dozen plainclothes Boston cops, didn’t look like a menacing sort. He could have been any middle-aged hump heading back ... Read more.

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State Police report three suspects in a shooting at Southampton Street and Massachusetts Avenue Wednesday evening jumped into a car and tried to flee south - only to be pursued by Boston police officers and state troopers ... Read more.

Police responding to a report of a gunshot at 14 Lyndhurst St. around 11 a.m., Wednesday, found a 23-year-old man shot to the head.

He was transported to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

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Ernest Watkins IV, 14, was arraigned Monday on charges he stabbed a man to death outside the Fields Corner T stop Oct. 6.

A Dorchester District Court judge ordered him held in DYS custody without bail ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports arresting a 14-year-old - too young to have his name released - for the stabbing death of Cherby LaJoie, 39, on Oct. 6 at 11 Charles St.

Police say the teen stabbed LaJoie ... Read more.

The Garrett Pressley Autism Resource Center held its seventh annual road race at Pope John Paul II Park in Neponset on Saturday, October 6. The Mattapan-based center assists Boston families with teenagers and adult ... Read more.

A small crowd was on hand Tuesday evening at the Mildred Avenue School in Mattapan as Boston public schools officials held the fifth in a series of community meetings focused on proposed changes to the city’s school ... Read more.

Carney Hospital is expected to receive $19.1 million over three years as the Dorchester Avenue medical center works with the state to pilot alternative health care payment models.

The funds, which are considered ... Read more.

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