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Gun violence cast a pall over the Codman Square Health Center community yesterday, as it gathered for the center’s annual meeting. Attorney General Maura Healey and state Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou ... Read more.

A former Dorchester resident wanted by the FBI and on the run for 23 years has been captured in North Carolina. The FBI says that John Joseph Hartin, 46, allegedly abused two young boys in Hyde Park back in 1993, but fled ... Read more.

Just over half of the Boston Public Schools Class of 2009 have now completed college, just shy of the 52 percent goal that late-Mayor Menino set in 2009 when he launched an initiative aimed at improving college ... Read more.

America’s oldest amateur baseball league is back in full swing, as players in the eight-team Boston Park League take the field this summer for the 88th straight season.

“It’s a great opportunity for a lot of ... Read more.

A benefit walk held last Saturday (June 11) at Dorchester’s Pope John Paul II Park raised funds and awareness about Myasthenia Gravis (MG), an incurable chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease. Taunton native Brittney ... Read more.

Dorchester consumers are gaining new options this summer for their digital TV and high-speed Internet spending. RCN Boston, which also provides phone service, announced has expanded deeper into Dorchester this spring, ... Read more.

St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children has secured a $100,000 grant to build a new recreation center at their Jones Hill campus. The gift is one of 100 grants given out by the Cummings Foundation, a Woburn-based ... Read more.

The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center- Boston will celebrate its fifth year this month with a series of promotions and free activities starting on June 20 and highlighted by an outdoor carnival and ... Read more.

Ventura Park in Lower Mills, languishing still without the repairs promised in 2015, will finally see some improvement, said state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry and state Rep. Dan Cullinane after a meeting with Department of ... Read more.

The Dorchester House Tour was a smash on Sunday, organizers and homeowners said, with hundreds of people traipsing through the neighborhood’s Victorian homes on a warm and sunny afternoon.

Vicki Rugo with the ... Read more.

Tonight's annual event known as the Donna Summer Memorial Roller Disco Party returns to City Hall Plaza with a little word play in its name: “Celebration of Summer III,” hailing both Boston’s highest-grossing recording ... Read more.

Catholic Charities held a breakfast fundraiser at the office of Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP in the Seaport District last Thursday morning to benefit the Teen Center at St. Peter’s. The event’s co-hosts included Fr. ... Read more.

The Boston Redevelopment Authority’s board of directors last week approved the Indigo Block, a proposal that will transform a former East Cottage Street factory into a mix of affordable housing and commercial uses. The $ ... Read more.

A Dorchester District Court probation officer who had just been indicted for the rape and assault of a woman in his charge died Tuesday afternoon in a car crash in Randolph. William Averill, 50, of West Roxbury was due to ... Read more.

The women who gathered in Fields Corner were bonded by violence and loss. A grandmother who had lost her grandson and five mothers who had lost their sons in shootings sat in the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute ... Read more.

As students at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School began and ended their Monday this week, five days after 17-year-old Raekwon Brown, a junior at the school, was fatally shot less than a block away, they entered the tall ... Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday considers a proposal for a package store that would specialize in beer and wine from "exotic" locales, in particular the Caribbean and Cape Verde.

Joel Nunez's proposed Nunez ... Read more.

A Suffolk County grand jury has indicted a probation officer at Dorchester District Court on three counts each of rape and indecent assault and battery and one count of assault with intent to rape.

William Averill ... Read more.

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