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Two longtime Dorchester tire businesses have formed a strategic alliance as one of the entities— Ashmont Tire— prepares for a major transition in the coming year. Dorchester Tire Service and Ashmont Tire are now being ... Read more.

Individuals under 18 years old would be prohibited from using or operating an indoor tanning device under legislation that unanimously passed the Senate on Thursday afternoon.

Sen. James Timilty, a ... Read more.

Boston Police arrested a 17 year-old teenager on Monday afternoon for carrying a loaded handgun. The teen was arrested in the vicinity of Rozella and Adams streets after an officer with the Youth Violence Task Force ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a woman was robbed and then sexually attacked at knifepoint at Dorchester Avenue and Harbor View Street around 11 p.m. on Sunday.

The suspect is described as black, ... Read more.

Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday morning announced changes at the Department of Children and Families that he hopes will improve the agency's performance and simplify it mission after a series of tragic cases involving ... Read more.

Joseph O'Donnnell, who kept doing funerals at his family's Neponset Avenue funeral home after losing his license, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 79 fraud, embezzlement and body-disposal counts.

In exchange for ... Read more.

In an effort to strengthen his campaign to impose a 2 percent tax on alcohol sold in Boston, City Council President Bill Linehan and City Councillor Frank Baker visited Hope House in Dorchester last Tuesday to outline how ... Read more.

Friday (25th) – The People In Neighborhoods Can Help, PINCH Foundation to honor South Boston’s Billy Higgins with the 2015 Jack Leary Quiet Leadership award7 p.m., to midnight, at the West Roxbury Elks. ... Read more.

Boston Police are moving forward with plans for a pilot program equipping officers with body-mounted cameras, according to Commissioner William Evans. The pilot is in extremely early stages, he said, and few details have ... Read more.

Bostonians who hope to become US citizens will get an assist this month from city officials who are teaming up with a non-profit organization to help streamline the naturalization process.
The Mayor’s Office of New ... Read more.

A series of community meetings — beginning with one at Dorchester’s Kroc Center on Oct. 8— will weigh the pros and cons of changing the current school enrollment system to include both charter and public schools in one “ ... Read more.

For more than 30 years, the Boston Police Cadet Program served as a pipeline to bring local young people into the police force and better involve the neighborhoods with the officers who served them. Discontinued in 2009, ... Read more.

A formerly-blighted city lot on Park Street is set to be transformed into a middle income home, Mayor Martin Walsh's office announced Wednesday. The vacant lot will be rehabilitated through a partnership between Madison ... Read more.

Ask Michael Crowley— the Community Field Coordinator at the Richard J. Murphy Elementary School in Neponset— about this Friday’s second annual First Responder’s Appreciation Day and he’ll be happy to tell you all about it ... Read more.

A man was killed on Monday afternoon after he was struck by an inbound Braintree train at JFK-UMass station. An eyewitness at the scene told the Reporter that he saw an adult male jump in front of the train. MBTA Transit ... Read more.

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