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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.
A Boston Police detective and a manager at the Russell Auditorium say a man stabbed repeatedly outside the Talbot Avenue facility on May 7 was apparently attacked in revenge for a rape for which he was convicted about ... Read more.
A man was found shot to death behind a block of stores on Blue Hill Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. The unidentified victim was discovered in the area of 1186 Blue Hill Ave. just before 12:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead at ... Read more.
The public is invited to attend a free celebration of Juneteenth at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts on Wed., June 15. Various works of art such as graffiti, fashion showcases, and performing artists will be showcased ... Read more.
An American Revolution-era flag was unveiled on Monday in the Castle Island exhibit at the Commonwealth Museum on Columbia Point. It will be on temporary display in Dorchester until mid-August.
The 13-star banner ... Read more.
Community members stood outside the Burke school on Tuesday afternoon to greet exiting students with cheers of solidarity. The afternoon event follower a similar action staged this morning, in which men and women gathered ... Read more.
Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday highlighted steps being taken by law enforcement to increase security around Massachusetts and downplayed any connection between the attacker responsible for this weekend's mass shooting at an ... Read more.
A Mattapan man who raped and murdered his next-door neighbor in 2011 will not get a new trial. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court upheld Eldrick Broom’s 2013 first-degree murder conviction on Monday. Broom was found ... Read more.
This afternoon (Thurs., June 9), and then again on Saturday evening, four young actors including Dot’s Makiya Polk will bring to life the harrowing reality of the youth sex-trafficking crisis around the world and even in ... Read more.
The National Parks of Boston last Saturday unveiled and dedicated a replica cannon brought to Dorchester Heights from Fort Ticonderoga during the 1776 Siege of Boston. The cannon, resting atop a six-and-a-half ton granite ... Read more.
Boston public school officials hosted a community forum in Roxbury last Saturday as part of an effort to shape the department’s emerging ten-year facilities master plan.
The process, dubbed Build BPS, ... Read more.
The city’s inspectional services department was busy last week, cracking down on two local businesses for violations but opting to work with them to raise standards rather than take a strictly punitive approach.
... Read more.
The Epiphany School broke ground on its new expanded campus Tuesday morning at a celebration attended by city and state officials, including Governor Charlie Baker. The approximately 2-acre campus will include an early ... Read more.
The hopefuls eyeing the Suffolk Register of Deeds position have crystallized into a group of ten, several of whom have strong Dorchester ties. The candidates, some seasoned campaigners and others running as fresh faces, ... Read more.
Boston still ranks among the state’s highest-risk communities for childhood lead poisoning, but that ranking is not due to a lack of funding, city officials say.
Since the early 1990s, the US Department ... Read more.
On Tuesday, the night before the City Council was scheduled to take its first vote on the city budget, which includes $1.027 billion for the public schools, a few dozen students gathered with school officials in the Bruce ... Read more.
Updated Thurs., June 9 at 11:15 a.m. -- A 17 year-old student was shot and killed and three other people including a woman in her late 60s were injured in a shooting on Washington Street near the Jeremiah ... Read more.
The Boston Fire Department responded to a four-alarm fire at 93 Park St. in Dorchester early Wednesday afternoon.
Firefighters knocked down the blaze just before 1:50 p.m., according to fire officals. They ... Read more.
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