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US Sen. Scott Brown traveled into the heart of deeply blue Dorchester last Thursday and sat down with a friendly audience of blue collar workers at an excavation company’s headquarters near Fields Corner.

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(4:15 p.m.) — A water main break is causing a major traffic disruption this afternoon at the busy intersection of Blue Hill Avenue and Morton Street. Workers are on the scene now making repairs to an water main line that ... Read more.

(UPDATE: The City Council voted 7-6 on Wednesday afternoon in favor of City Councillor Bill Linehan's plan. More ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a traffic stop near Dorchester High School Saturday afternoon turned into a violent struggle for one officer's gun with a man who vowed not to go back to prison - from which he'd just ... Read more.

Lower Mills merchants and community leaders are organizing a drive to assist a family which lost its home in a five-alarm fire on Fairmount Street on Thursday. The Lower Mills Merchants Association, Vargas & Vargas ... Read more.

Five firefighters have been injured battling a large fire at 5 Fairmount St. that broke out shortly after 11 p.m. on Thursday in the basement, the Boston Fire Department.

All are expected to survive, as are two ... Read more.

Donna Latson Gittens, the Dorchester woman who is the founder and co-principal of causemedia, inc., came up with a novel way to celebrate her company’s 15th anniversary this year: She launched a second company, a new ... Read more.

State Rep. Carlos Henriquez faced two challenges at his community meeting last Thursday night: Low turnout and a Republican, far afield from his Beacon Hill home, demanding his resignation.

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Massachusetts voters will get a chance in November to decide whether a doctor should accede to a dying patient’s request for medication that would end his or her life.

The proposed policy is one of three ballot ... Read more.

Police looking for this SUV for quadruple shootings.

Four women sitting in a car outside 36 Harlem St. were shot around 9:20 p.m. on Sunday. Two were pronounced dead at the scene, while the other two were taken to local hospitals - one with life-threatening injuries from ... Read more.

Superintendent Carol Johnson deserves credit for once again collaborating with a Haitian-American non-profit to provide innovative summer programming this summer. Boston Public Schools teamed up with Youth and Family ... Read more.

A ragtag crowd in knit hats and kerchiefs swarm up onto the stage on Boston Common at dusk. Though they look like Occupy Boston types –intentionally so—they’re not protesters, but cast-members of “Coriolanus,” the 17th ... Read more.

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