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The Lucy Stone School near Codman Square — which has been unoccupied since it closed its doors in 2009 — will become the new home of 75 students of the Roxbury Preparatory Charter School this month.

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A federal jury this week convicted a Department of Neighborhood Development program manager of defrauding the government in two separate scams related to her house on Dix Street.

Celia Thomas, 49, of 10 Dix St., ... Read more.

The White House plans on Wednesday to honor Emmett Folgert, the founder and executive director of the Dorchester Youth Collaborative, for his anti-youth violence work. Folgert is one of twelve people the Obama ... Read more.

A Dorchester man was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run at Neponset Circle that sent a state trooper to the hospital with multiple injuries this morning.

Brandon Smith, 25, of 12 Westerville Terrace, was ... Read more.

John Hancock Financial will donate $1 million over the next five years to Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy. The gift, announced on Monday at the Academy’s Columbia Campus in Dorchester, will be used to support ... Read more.

The fifth annual Adams Corner Crawl across Dorchester, which honors the memory of Sgt. Adam P. Kennedy, a Norfolk, Mass. native with cousins in Dot, will be held a week from Saturday, April 7. Sgt. Kennedy, a sergeant in ... Read more.

“The Crusher Casey Challenge Race” – the name peals formidably, and rightfully so for a family the Boston Globe once called “the toughest family on earth.”

On St. Patrick’s Day 2012, the Riverside Boat Club, on ... Read more.

Officials from the city’s Inspectional Services Department (ISD) have slapped a Mattapan man with a $3,000 fine after he was caught dumping yard waste on to a vacant property at 77 Dix St.

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The roof of Darling Washington’s three-decker on Meetinghouse Hill has a leak. And through a new Department of Neighborhood Development program focusing on that particular kind of housing stock, the single homeowner will ... Read more.

Boston Public School officials heard all manner of responses from parents in Dorchester and Roxbury last Saturday at administration-led community meetings where the talking point was the ongoing reassessment of the ... Read more.

Members of Dorchester’s State House delegation are weighing in against a “Stand Your Ground” bill that would allow individuals to use deadly force if they felt threatened in public.

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Bay State commuters who rely on the MBTA will be slapped with an average 23 percent fare hike under a budget proposal that state transportation officials plan to unveil Wednesday morning.

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The results are in: MBTA riders communicated with the agency nearly 8,000 times over the last two months and, according to a partial review, nearly all of the comments contained pleas to save service – bus, rail and ferry ... Read more.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury on Thursday acquitted Edward Washington of the quadruple murder on Woolson Street. ... Read more.

Despite having more than a week to review a House offer for compromise on a sweeping crime and sentencing reform package, the three senators negotiating the deal were still working Thursday on a counteroffer that is ... Read more.

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