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A 54 year-old Port Norfolk man is facing a slew of serious charges — including armed robbery and kidnapping— after he allegedly held-up the Tedeschi’s convenience store in Neponset at gunpoint last Thursday morning. The ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports four men were shot around 12:20 a.m., Sunday, and that one died Sunday night. Police say the victim, 20, was the only one of the four who did not flee the scene after being ... Read more.

A Mattapan man was arraigned today on charges he shot somebody outside the Dublin House on Stoughton Street early Friday morning.

Leonard Young, 33, was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bail at his ... Read more.

A UMass Boston shuttle bus was ... Read more.

The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire called in around 4:45 a.m. at 487 Quincy St. did an estimated $200,000 in damage.

Eight adults and two children were displaced, but no residents were injured. The ... Read more.

On July 1, the Dorchester Reporter sent a questionnaire to all seven candidates who will appear on the Sept. 27 ballot for District 3 Boston City Council. The survey asked the candidates for a range of biographical ... Read more.

The Hendry Street Neighborhood Watch will be hosting a block party on Hendry Street on Saturday, July 30, from 12-5 p.m. The festivities will include awards, food, games, and music.

The block party is also ... Read more.

Gov. Deval Patrick was a Harvard University junior in 1976. The Cambridge campus was a “relatively safe and comfortable,” he recalled. “But you never knew then what you were going to get when you went off campus,” Patrick ... Read more.

Ask the average Bay State voter – or, at the very least, one who paid attention to last year’s gubernatorial contest – about a controversial wind farm located out in the ocean, and their thoughts are likely to turn to ... Read more.

Low-wage workers in so-called quick service restaurants like coffee and sandwich shops would be further strapped financially under a House-approved bill that would allow certain managers to share in pooled tips, according ... Read more.

Above, a report on the Neponset Greenway from the non-profit ... Read more.

The rehabilitation and replacement of a major water pipeline in Lower Mills enters its toughest phase on Monday, Aug. 1. That phase includes shutting down a portion of Washington Street where Jersey barriers will go up at ... Read more.

The Uphams Corner and Grove Hall post offices are among six in Boston and 3,700 across the country on list of outlets the US Postal Service is considering closing. The Uphams Corner branch is located on Columbia Road, ... Read more.

Boston Police said Tuesday afternoon that Pierre Emmanuel, 32, of Dorchester, missing since Monday night, was located near Maverick MBTA station in East Boston.

Emmanuel, who has Down syndrome, was transported to a ... Read more.

As advocates for urban communities laid out the challenges facing black residents in Boston - in health care, education and criminal justice - Gov. Deval Patrick described Monday a "very different Boston" than the one he ... Read more.

Boston Police report finding Alessa Castellon, 21, shot to death around 3:05 a.m. at 50 Granger St.

Junior Fernandes, 22, of Dorchester, was arrested on charges of murder, unlawful possession of a firearm and ... Read more.

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