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The first annual Polar Plunge to benefit the Leahy-Holloran Community Center in Neponset attracted a large crowd to Tenean Beach on Sunday afternoon. The plunge— dedicated to the memory of community center namesake Brian ... Read more.

The late Mary Casey Forry wrote this column for publication on New Year’s Day 1987.

Dear Diary:
What an exhilarating day. So much fun doing things for the first time in the new year.

At 7:04 ... Read more.

An Everett man well known to police was arrested on charges he helped hold up two food-delivery drivers in Dorchester after police began to track him down thanks to the GPS that was in the iPhone he allegedly took from ... Read more.

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is pushing a bill that would provide 10,500 employment visas for Irish immigrants. Brown, a Wrentham Republican, filed the bill with U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, an Illinois Republican. Citing a “close bond ... Read more.

Students protested the proposed re-location of Boston Latin Academy. 	Photo by

The Bruins won the Stanley Cup. US troops finally exited Iraq. And pent-up animosity over Wall Street greed and a still-sluggish economy played out in protests across the country. These stories were all big news in ... Read more.

Out of habit, Leah Blake still gets up at the break of dawn. A Dorchester native who grew up on Ashmont Hill, she took the bus to Wayland as part of the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) program. ... Read more.

The landlord of a troubled property on Savin Hill Avenue home has started the process of evicting a trio of tenants arrested ... Read more.

Dorchester-based health advocates hope that a new winter farmer’s market will make it easier for families to stock their pantries with fresh food and broaden their culinary and cultural horizons.

Organized by the ... Read more.

For most Bay State political junkies, the story of the year will likely be the chief of the Chelsea Housing Authority pulling in a $360,000-a-year salary. At least, that was his figure until The Boston Globe took a closer ... Read more.

On November 16, Wheelock College hosted its annual Passion for Action Leadership Award Dinner. The event benefits Wheelock’s Passion for Action Scholarship program for students committed to service. The scholarship ... Read more.

There were five fewer homicides in 2011 in Dorchester and Mattapan than the year before, at least through Dec. 28 when the Reporter went to press. But the death toll was still steep: 34 persons were killed violently on ... Read more.

The teenager charged with killing an Adams Corner man on Columbus Day stands accused of shooting two men during a foiled robbery attempt on Monsignor Lydon Way two weeks later. John Graham, 17, was indicted last week by a ... Read more.

Boston Police have arrested a young man suspected of robbing two pizza delivery drivers on Monsignor Lydon Way in the last week.

On the afternoon of Dec. 19, officers responded to a radio call that a ... Read more.

A four-month old baby who was found in distress inside an apartment at the Franklin Field housing development this week has died. Boston Police say they are probing the death of Allejah Jarrett, but have not yet ... Read more.

Local utility workers teamed up with Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley last week to make the holiday season a little brighter for the surviving family members of homicide victims.

Utility Workers ... Read more.

Students at Grove Hall’s Mother Caroline Academy who sent letters of encouragement to troops in Afghanistan received a personal thank you from a returning veteran this week.

Marine Corps Lieutenant Nick Francona ... Read more.

Kate Powers has faced plenty of adversity, both internal and external, for most of her life.

She grew up in an alcoholic home and, at 17, was 350 pounds. Past personal struggles and even more recent ones did not ... Read more.

As a kid growing up in Codman Square, Michael Kaplanidis watched scores of runners tackle the miles, weather and heartbreak —the hill and otherwise— of the Boston Marathon. This April, he plans to cross the finish line ... Read more.

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