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Dorchester native Mark O’Sullivan has produced a 16-minute video entitled “Our Tough Guy” that features an episode in the hockey life of former Boston Bruin John Wensink, who was known as an “enforcer,” and premiered at ... Read more.

Completing a speedy ascension in state politics, former prosecutor Maura Healey on Tuesday won the race to succeed Attorney General Martha Coakley, beating out Republican attorney John Miller of Winchester for the state’s ... Read more.

The Boston Globe has taken a big early step away from Morrissey Boulevard as it continues to arrange its leave-taking of the property it moved to 56 years ago.

On Tuesday, the newspaper’s chief executive officer, ... Read more.

Beginning a transition effort, Governor-elect Charlie Baker on Wednesday met with Gov. Deval Patrick, who during the just-ended campaign repeatedly said Baker had an "authenticity problem" and backed Attorney General ... Read more.

A pair of shootings on Tuesday afternoon and evening left two men with serious injuries and triggered a major police response on two ends of Dorchester Avenue.

In the first incident, 30-year-old Keldon Liverpool ... Read more.

Massachusetts voters agreed Tuesday to move ahead with casinos and institute a new earned sick time law, while repealing a 2013 law indexing the gas tax to inflation and rejecting a proposal to expand the bottle deposit ... Read more.

Four years after coming up short in his quest for the top statewide office in Massachusetts, Republican Charlie Baker declared victory early Wednesday morning in his race for governor, though Democrat Martha Coakley had ... Read more.

Martha Coakley is well on her way to a big win in the neighborhoods of Dorchester and Mattapan— and will win the city of Boston handily. But will her margin of victory in the capital city give her enough fuel to outrun a ... Read more.

Boston Police report arresting a suspect on charges he robbed a Dorchester Ave. convenience store and shot the owner. The incident took place on Monday night around 7:30 p.m. at D&D store, 1002 Dorchester Ave. near ... Read more.

A man was seriously injured after being shot in the head in Lower Mills just before 5 p.m.

The young man was shot in the CVS parking lot at intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Richmond Street. The man is in ... Read more.

The days are numbered for a longtime “hole” in the Savin Hill business district.

The Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association last night reversed course and gave its approval to a mixed-use, transit oriented ... Read more.

The leading candidates for governor Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker spent the final hours of the campaign on Monday trying to rally their supporters and drum up enthusiasm before the polls open to ... Read more.

Hundreds of mourners lined the streets of Dorchester and Mattapan to salute Mayor Thomas M. Menino and his family as his funeral procession followed a route through the neighborhoods to his Hyde Park parish church this ... Read more.

Former Mayor Tom Menino will take his “Final Ride Home” through the streets of Boston today, passing by a number of significant locations before arriving at Hyde Park’s Most Precious Blood Parish at noon.

Bells in ... Read more.

Public and private schools in Boston circulated a message from Boston Police yesterday warning about an "uptick" in vandalism and other criminal acts by school-aged kids — and asking for increased vigilance on Halloween ... Read more.

Yet another development could be on the horizon in Savin Hill.

The Spire building at 65 Bay Street, adjacent to Savin Hill MBTA station, is on the market for $13.9 million.

The parcel was listed online this ... Read more.

An Irish bar in the shadow of City Hall was transformed into a somber campaign rally of sorts early Thursday evening, signaling the end of an era in Boston politics.

Inside, men and women clutching ... Read more.

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