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A 21-year-old Norfolk Street man is behind bars this week on high bail after he was arrested last week and charged in a child porn investigation. Luis Gonzalez was ordered held on $35,000 bail at his arraignment in ... Read more.

Saying the 80-year-old state law that imposes limits on municipal liquor licenses is hurting small businesses in Boston, City Councillor At-Large Ayanna Pressley has launched an effort to revamp the system. Pressley, a ... Read more.

A plan could soon be in place to boost funding for the state's transportation system with $500 million in new taxes, but it might come without the blessing of Gov. Deval Patrick.

Patrick had barely finished ... Read more.

The city’s Boston Centers for Youth & Families will run two baseball opportunities for Boston's boys and girls ages 7-14 this summer: the BCYF Fenway Challenge and the BCYF Sox Talk Baseball Clinic, including one set ... Read more.

Agreeing to significantly higher spending on the state's university system and new efforts to tamp down on fraud in the welfare system while discarding an expansion of the bottle deposit law, the group of lawmakers ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department's Neighborood Crime Watch department issued a "community alert" today in the wake of a series of residential break-ins that have occurred in recent days in Dorchester Area C-11 police district ... Read more.

A year ago, Andy Davis was busy making the rounds of civic groups, peace walks, and block parties to introduce himself as the new president of Carney Hospital. Thrust into the leadership role on the heels of the sudden ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat down for a quiet dinner in the South End last Wednesday night, the mayor reported. Their dinner prompted some light chatter on Facebook and Twitter ... Read more.

The Saint William’s Dorchester Fund has its roots in the parish band that was a popular pastime for hundreds of neighborhood kids. In a nod to that heritage, the fund run by band alumni
Makes it a point to recognize ... Read more.

The headmaster of the Neighborhood House Charter School is still feeling the effects of the Boston Marathon bombings that killed one of his students and injured another and her mother. Martin Richard, of Dorchester, died ... Read more.

T reduces fares, offers transfers to attract riders

As extensive renovations to the Fairmount Line near completion, two new stations on the commuter rail corridor will open next Monday, July 1. ... Read more.

If Cid Corman were still alive, he would turn 89 this Saturday.

“Cid who?”

Like Edgar Allan Poe before him, Corman was a Boston-born author who was largely ignored in his home town, but who had world-wide ... Read more.

On Saturday, June 15, Save the Harbor / Save the Bay awarded $30,000 in Better Beaches grants to 14 groups to support dozens of free public events in nine beachfront communities from Nahant to Nantasket this summer. ... Read more.

The city’s Main Streets Foundation heralded its top volunteers last week during an awards ceremony at the Strand Theatre— an event that raised $200,000 for the program aimed at boosting neighborhood business districts. ... Read more.

A mobile “City Hall to Go” truck will be making stops in Dorchester and Mattapan this summer— part of a new Menino administration initiative that takes its cue from food trucks. Residents can plan to visit the truck to ... Read more.

The Reporter brings you a new feature this week— Ballot Royale: Election 2013. It's a one-stop page for all of the latest reports on this years race ... Read more.

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