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The HomeGoods store in Fields Corner is closing its doors in January 2012, less than a year after it was converted from an A.J. Wright store. The move will leave a gaping hole in the Geneva Ave. shopping mall, where the ... Read more.

An outcry over the splitting of Chinatown precincts between City Council districts. A councillor potentially put in the position of facing off against a colleague. Growing diversity in neighborhoods prompting calls for an ... Read more.

It might come as a surprise, but one of the most impressive views of Boston can be found in a dim, windowless room on the seventh floor of City Hall.

From his station here in the city’s Traffic Management Center, ... Read more.

Members of Mayor Thomas Menino’s “neighborhood response team” for the Bowdoin-Geneva area are hitting the streets this week to spread word of a family resource fair set for this Saturday at the First Parish Church.

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Former City Councillor Maureen Feeney appears poised to receive the job of city clerk. Her former colleagues, who have the authority to fill the seat, interviewed her for the $102,000-a-year post on Monday, and a vote ... Read more.

About 250 people gathered Tuesday morning at the Boston Public Library’s central branch in Copley Square to discuss a new report that details the health of students in the city’s public school system. Boston Public School ... Read more.

William Shakespeare once wrote, “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” Retired Boston Juvenile Court Judge John J. Craven, a member of the Boston School Committee and Governor’s Council in the late 1960s and ... Read more.

City officials announced late Wednesday that a second claim of abuse has been lodged against a Harbor Middle School teacher's assistant accused of lewd conduct with a student.

Meanwhile, the assistant, LaShawn Hill ... Read more.

An Allston man carrying what may have been a laundry list of potential burglary targets was arrested by C-11 Boston Police officers on Tuesday afternoon after a tip from a concerned neighbor.

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The Boston Police Department reports it will be charging an assistant at the Harbor Pilot Middle School with lewd and lascivious behavior for an incident involving "a disabled, non-verbal student."

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A man told Boston Police that he was robbed at gunpoint in a Dorchester Ave. parking lot last night by a man whom he just observed trying to steal a woman’s purse nearby. The incident took place on Dec. 12 at about 7 p.m ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports arresting ateen on charges he's been holding up pizza-delivery guys at gunpoint.

Police say they arrested the teen - at 16 too young to have his name released - in the bedroom ... Read more.

Eldrick Broom, 27, was arrested Thursday on charges he sexually assaulted and then murdered Rosanna Camilo, a Dominican resident who ... Read more.

For some Dorchester voters, including those who vote at the Catherine Clark Apartments and Lower Mills branch of the Boston Public Library, the ballot in 2012 will look a little different. Thanks to the redrawing of ... Read more.

The parent council at the Leahy-Holloran Community Center is seeking to opt out of an agreement they set up with the city to fund their pre-school and begin searching for a new financing model.

Two years ago, after ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino said on Tuesday that he will push for more of a focus on transportation in Boston Harbor, promising to set aside $1 million annually to support water-based infrastructure such as ferries and water ... Read more.

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