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More than 100 residents, elected officials and members of the Boston Police Department turned out for a Monday evening meeting at St. Mark’s Church to dicuss mounting concerns about prostitution along Dorchester Avenue. ... Read more.

When is he going to endorse?” Lou Mandarini, the president of the Greater Boston Labor Council, said it in a high-pitched voice while looking out into a crowd of union members who had gathered at the IBEW Local ... Read more.

The Dorchester Community Food Co-op is having a good year. After launching several projects to provide healthy and affordable food to the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood, the organization has also received a $10,000 grant ... Read more.

This Saturday tens of thousands of jazz aficionados are expected to throng a six-block stretch of Columbus Avenue as the 12th annual Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival (BBJF) once again hosts “Boston’s biggest block party,” a ... Read more.

Violent crime is down nine percent. Solar-powered trash cans are outside the Bowdoin Health Center. And benches and tables are planned for a vacant lot at 191 Bowdoin St.

Those were some of the improvements ... Read more.

Parents, take your pick. Boston School Department officials this week outlined five proposals that would move the city away from a three-zone set-up for assigning students to schools beginning with the 2014-2015 school ... Read more.

The chemist at the center of a massive evidence tainting scandal at a state lab handled drug samples for 1,141 felons currently serving time in a state prison, jail or county house of correction, according the attorney ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino on Monday vetoed a second redistricting map sent to his desk on a 7-6 vote, again citing an over-concentration of people of color in District 4.

City Councillor Tito Jackson had mounted a ... Read more.

The Irish Heritage Festival, which for the past three Columbus Day weekends has transformed Dorchester's Adams Corner into a block party celebrating the richness of Irish arts, culture and music in Boston, will not take ... Read more.

A real-estate lawyer faces a lengthy stay in federal prison after a jury convicted him this week of 33 counts of wire fraud and 5 counts of money laundering for his role in a scheme to defraud lenders on the sale of ... Read more.

After two months of preparing for the 10th anniversary celebration of the Vietnamese American Community Center on Sept. 29, Nam Pham has many people to thank.

The executive director of the Vietnamese American ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino is expected to endorse U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren at a Friday rally in Roslindale, sources tell the Reporter.

The afternoon rally in Roslindale Square will come after a ... Read more.

A Dorchester man with a long record for breaking and entering was arraigned yesterday on charges related to the dozens of purloined items from suburban homes police say they found in his apartment during a search earlier ... Read more.

Ross Wilson wears a sense of relief that’s currently in fashion inside City Hall and the Boston Teachers Union on Mt. Vernon St.

The 36-year-old assistant superintendent was a member of Superintendent Carol Johnson ... Read more.

State and city officials, community leaders and residents gathered at the Mattapan branch of the Boston Public Library for the fifth in a series of Mattapan Breakfast Series meetings on Tuesday morning. Hosted by state ... Read more.

The presence of prostitutes on Dorchester Avenue will be the focus of a Monday night meeting at Saint Mark’s church hall. The neighborhood-wide meeting, set for next Monday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., is being put together by ... Read more.

In the cavernous Room 241, the city’s Elections Department is preparing for the 2012 election, which will feature races for the White House and one of the Bay State’s two US Senate seats.

But a few floors up, all ... Read more.

Boston Public Schools officials plan to roll out several proposals to refit the school assignment policy on Monday by presenting options to a mayorally appointed advisory committee at the Frederick Pilot Middle School on ... Read more.

US Sen. Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, held dueling events on Monday in Dorchester and Mattapan. Brown, a Wrentham Republican, swung by Blue Hill Avenue’s Auto Service and Tire and provided ... Read more.

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