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Schoolchildren in 20 select Boston Public Schools will get an additional 40 minutes of instructional time starting next fall if a deal hammered out between the Walsh administration and union leaders is ratified by ... Read more.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and police officials on Tuesday said they would seek to "accommodate" expected protesters at the city's celebration of New Year's Eve, but stressed that the event is "family" oriented and not an ... Read more.

The former St. Gregory’s Elementary School— which now serves as the Lower Mills campus of Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy— will begin an ambitious renovation project this winter. The capital improvements will be ... Read more.

Monday (29th) – The JFK Library’s Celebrate series presents Alex the Jester, a “colorful trickster” who speaks his own language - Grammelot! The 10:30a.m. program is intended for young audiences ages 5 ... Read more.

The Fowler-Clark farmhouse on Norfolk Street is one of only a few landmarks remaining from Boston’s agricultural past. The original owner, Samuel Fowler was a yeoman who farmed a large estate in the late 1700’s, at the ... Read more.

Critically acclaimed costume designer and director Stacey Stephens is headed to Dorchester–bringing a modern and urban spin to the Fiddlehead Theatre Company while putting down roots of his own.

Stephens was named ... Read more.

A pair of significant Dorchester development projects in Neponset and Columbia Point were approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) board last week. The Bayside DoubleTree Hotel on Mount Vernon Street won the ... Read more.

Just after noon on July 20, 2014, as Donnie Palmer walked out the doorway of his sister’s Fields Corner three-decker and onto a small porch, he spotted a Black Toyota lurking down the block. Yeah, he thought, it could ... Read more.

A veteran Boston City Council member on Sunday condemned the assassination-style killings Saturday afternoon of two New York City police officers while saying he fears more violence against police officers.

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Saying he has reformed his life, current and former law enforcement officials on Monday backed the proposed pardon of a man convicted of armed assault with attempt to murder for his part in a 1989 shooting that left a ... Read more.

Police are looking for a man they say pointe a gun at an officer around 11 p.m. outside the Lee K-8 School on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester. The officer shot at the man, then chased him to a fence at the cemetery behind the ... Read more.

Anyone who has driven down Adams street near Victory Road at this time of year in the past decade or ... Read more.

A web-based system for criminal background checks is helping ex-offenders in Massachusetts apply for jobs and other opportunities without being automatically disqualified, while sentencing reform has led to nearly 400 ... Read more.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Keron Pierre, 29, of Mattapan of murdering three people outside a house party on March 29, 2009.

The verdicts mean a mandatory sentence of life without possibility of ... Read more.

Two Washington Street business also targeted in gun-related incidents on Thursday

A group of teenagers allegedly beat and robbed a man at gunpoint on Thursday evening as he walked along Ashmont ... Read more.

New state-mandated health coverage benefits beginning in 2015 for services such as alcohol and drug counseling or abuse-deterrent opioids will add roughly $2 to $18 a year to the cost of an annual policy, according to ... Read more.

Thursday (18th) – MassDOT hosts public meeting about plans to improve the intersection of Morton Street and Gallivan Blvd. with a $1.2 million project. Meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Charles H. Taylor ... Read more.

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