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A brazen gang that had brought drugs and violence to the Bowdoin/Geneva area for more than a decade wasn't going to let a permanent police post near its headquarters stop it: It kept right on using the three-family house ... Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports 12 people were forced out of 16 Estella St. in Mattapan when a two-alarm fire broke out around 2 a.m.
The Red Cross was called in to help residents find new lodgings for the night ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports a woman suffered life-threatening injuries when shot in the head around 10:15 a.m. Sunday at 6 Arbutus St.
Jeremy Harrison, 28, was arrested on charges of unlawful ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports it is looking for an AR15 rifle stolen from the bedroom of a resident of 157 Intervale St. in Grove Hall yesterday.
Police say the resident returned home to find his ... Read more.
Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray, after spending the last 15 years in local and statewide public office, will not run for governor in 2014, citing the time commitment that would be required to juggle his current job, a full-time ... Read more.
The Dorchester Historical Society has just re-published the journal of a young woman’s account of life here in the 1870s. The society will mark the book’s release a week from Sunday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m., at the Carpenters ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports they are looking for Jackson Barros, 30, of Dorchester, in connection with today's early morning raids aimed at breaking up two Dorchester gangs involved in drugs and guns.
... Read more.Several hundred Boston police officers and federal agents descended on Dorchester early Thursday, arresting some 30 alleged members of the Woodward Avenue and Hendry Street gangs in a bid to quell violence in the Bowdoin/ ... Read more.
Touching on education reform, sentencing legislation, and neighborhood issues like “problem properties,” Mayor Thomas Menino this week rolled out 49 bills he’d like to see passed at the State House. Nearly half of the ... Read more.
“It’s organized chaos!” a jovial Kevin Hayes, Sr., exclaimed last Wednesday evening as scores of Mites, Mighty Mites, and Squirts, some on the ice and some waiting ever so patiently for a line change, bubbled over with ... Read more.
The Patrick administration this week laid out a menu of transportation funding options, setting the groundwork for potential tax increases to finance improvements and expansions in a deficit-stricken system.
The ... Read more.
A Weymouth man who was allegedly spotted buying heroin off Columbia Road around noon on Sunday was stopped by pursuing police, before he drove away, dragging an officer down the street. The suspect was later arrested on ... Read more.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his most memorable speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the momentous March on Washington in August 1963. That makes the year 2013 the 50th Anniversary of King’s oft-quoted words ... Read more.
Concerned about how the expansion of the South Bay Mall might affect close-by neighborhoods, the McCormack Civic Association, the group that deals with concerns in the Polish triangle and nearby areas, will hold a ... Read more.
The city’s School Committee would be converted into a hybrid group of elected and appointed officials, under a bill District 3 Councillor Frank Baker filed this week.
The home rule petition splits the panel into a ... Read more.
A Weymouth man who allegedly put a Boston cop in the hospital by dragging him with his car yesterday made bail ... Read more.
Boston firefighters responded around 4:15 p.m., Sunday, to what became a three-alarm fire at 5 Everett Ave..
Two residents became trapped by the fire. Firefighters rescued both, but not before they suffered smoke ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports a Weymouth man spotted buying heroin off Columbia Road in Dorchester around noon Sunday stopped for pursuing police, then drove away - dragging an officer down the street.
The ... Read more.
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