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Stephen Koenig, 19, attained Eagle Scout rank— the highest in the Boy Scouts —last Saturday during a ceremony at the St. Mark’s VFW Post. The Dorchester teen, who is presently a senior at John D. O’Bryant High, has been ... Read more.

In response to a News Service questionnaire, nine of the 12 candidates for mayor of Boston offered their positions on whether the city should contribute funding for additional MBTA services in and around Boston. At ... Read more.

Most of the mayoral candidates will be in Dorchester tonight for the Boston Teachers Union forum. Boston magazine contributing editor David Bernstein will moderate the forum, which starts at 7 p.m. inside the union hall ... Read more.

Can you imagine taking the floor of the United States Senate to debate the morality of a US strike on ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department is attacks early Wednesday that sent two men to the hospital, where one of them would be pronounced dead.

Police say that shortly after 1 a.m., officers responded to a call about a man ... Read more.

At 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, Gov. Deval Patrick stepped down the front stairs of the State House with a folded American flag in his arms, beginning a commemoration for destruction that took place 12 years prior.

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Stephen Murphy looked relieved that he wasn’t in the scrum in Suffolk University’s Modern Theatre. Getting up to leave after the end of the mayoral election’s first televised debate, the City Council president looked over ... Read more.

In a 90-minute fast-paced 12-way exchange that at times resembled a raucous dinner-table argument, Boston's would-be mayors jostled for voters' attention with just under two weeks until the Sept. 24 preliminary that will ... Read more.

Fifteen days to Sept. 24. Most candidates have back-to-back forums on their plates tonight: First up is a forum focusing on arts and culture. That forum starts at 6 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre. Then they walk down the ... Read more.

A look at the day ahead. There are 16 days left until the Sept. 24 preliminary.

CGR ON MHP: Hoping to get some national attention on the race, former state Rep. Charlotte Golar Richie will appear on ... Read more.

For the second time this week, the mayoral news cycle was taken over by a Southie-centric storyline. But that had wrapped up by the end of the day, as the candidates prepared to plunge into the weekend, one of three left ... Read more.

A few hundred supporters of Dorchester state Rep. Marty Walsh’s mayoral campaign assembled at the intersection of L Street and Broadway on Thursday afternoon, spilling out onto the street, hours after South Boston state ... Read more.

There are 18 days until the Sept. 24 mayoral preliminary. City Councillor Rob Consalvo plans to release a “plan to keep our kids safe in school” at 10:30 a.m. at the Conley School in Roslindale. Later, he heads to meet ... Read more.

Eyesore remains a hold-out on Dudley Street
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On a Friday morning in mid-June, City Councillor At-Large John Connolly had just toured the St. Francis House by Boston Common when his car died. “Guess who is taking shared bike to next event,” he posted to Twitter, the ... Read more.

On Labor Day, the inside of the Park Plaza Hotel looked a lot like Dorchester Avenue: Marty Walsh signs were hanging from nearly every available surface.

The Greater Boston Labor Council’s breakfast drew several ... Read more.

“Ask questions.” That was the advice Mayor Thomas Menino passed onto the Boston School Committee’s newest member: Ayomide Olumuyiwa, a 16-year-old Mattapan resident who attends the John D. O’Bryant School of Math & ... Read more.

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