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Charlotte Golar Richie, a Dorchester Democrat who ran for mayor in 2013, will not make a bid for statewide office this year, she told supporters via an email on Saturday. A third place finisher in the 12-way mayoral ... Read more.

Well-heeled Massachusetts political donors will be free to spread their wealth among as many candidates for state and federal office as they wish this year after the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down aggregate ... Read more.

Gai Scott, 36, is scheduled for arraignment in Plymouth District Court on Monday on charges he tried to kill his uncle, Raymond Scott, as the two drove in separate cars on Rte. 3 for a funeral service for Raymond Scott's ... Read more.

Standing at the edge of a Codman Square park, city officials this week restarted a gun buyback program in a bid to curtail neighborhood violence. Dubbed “Your Piece for Peace,” the program has police accepting or picking ... Read more.

Evandro Carvalho is a former prosecutor in Roxbury and graduate of UMass Amherst and law school at Howard University. He has lived in Dorchester since he immigrated to this country at age 15 from Santiago, Cape Verde. ... Read more.

Karen Charles Peterson placed her hands over the car’s air conditioning vents for warmth as her campaign manager drove her back to her Dorchester home. She had spent two hours in the cold, knocking on doors, down Savin ... Read more.

A longtime teacher with experience drafting political legislation, Barry Lawton is making another attempt at the Fifth Suffolk seat in the State House.

Lawton ran unsuccessfully in 1988, 1999, and 2010.

“We ... Read more.

As a candidate campaigning to represent the majority-minority Fifth Suffolk House district, Jennifer Johnson stands out for her biography and her track-record as a activist devoted to a progressive agenda. Born and raised ... Read more.

Sharrice Perkins, one of three victims in a horrific 2012 shooting on Harlem Street, was remembered last Saturday at a Double Dutch tournament in Roxbury, an event at which Perkins would have felt quite at home. Perkins ... Read more.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today acquitted John Graham, 19, of Lynn on a charge of first-degree murder for the death of Ciaran ... Read more.

House lawmakers on Wednesday resurrected legislation that would lift the cap on charter school enrollment in underperforming school districts, adopting a new version of the bill after the Education Committee failed to ... Read more.

“Charlotte for Mayor” didn’t work out. Could “Charlotte for Treasurer” or "Charlotte for Lt. Governor" happen any differently?

That was the question on the minds of some political operatives and reporters in the ... Read more.

State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz and state Rep. Russell Holmes, two lawmakers who represent parts of Dorchester and Mattapan, were unsuccessful this week in pushing a compromise that would lift the cap on charter schools. ... Read more.

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