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A short circuit in a second-floor bedroom caused a two-alarm fire Saturday morning at 101 Maxwell St., the Boston Fire Department reports.

No residents were injured in the fire, reported around 9:40 a.m., but one ... Read more.

Jimmy Ammons, 50, was arraigned today in Dorchester District Court on charges he plunged a knife into a woman in his apartment at 884 Cummins Highway yesterday morning.

The woman, 31, is recovering today at Boston ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, FEB. 2, 2012……Proposals approved in the House and Senate that would eliminate parole for three-time violent offenders would likely affect just a handful of offenders per year, according to a key House ... Read more.

With a potential casino in East Boston and the pit in the middle of Downtown Crossing as backdrops, tensions are flaring between the Menino administration and City Council President Stephen Murphy.

Some of that ... Read more.

On a January night four years ago, Mayor Thomas Menino took to the stage of the Strand Theatre in Uphams Corner and pledged to revamp the school assignment process, citing the tens of millions of dollars the city was ... Read more.

While route and policy improvements have helped Boston Public School administrators tackle the problem of chronically late school buses that plagued the first month of the school year, drivers say some routing problems ... Read more.

The defense attorneys at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC, earned their keep this week. While he joined an ever-lengthening list of high-profile criminals from Boston, Arthur Winn, a top developer with ... Read more.

Decked out in snorkels, fins, and scuba gear, more than 150 activists took to the streets of Boston’s financial district on Monday to call attention to “underwater” mortgages which they say are the root cause of the ... Read more.

A resounding “No!” was the word of the night on Tuesday evening in Mattapan. The word rang from every corner of the auditorium at Mildred Ave Community Center in Mattapan on Tuesday evening, scene of the latest public ... Read more.

Carney Hospital has partnered with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1199 United Healthcare Workers East to form a new joint labor-management initiative. The collaboration launched a campaign to encourage ... Read more.

Kevin Hagan White was a man of many personas – ebullient, moody, haughty, energetic, fretful, intellectual, daring, to name a few ascribed to him during his often-tumultuous mayoral occupancy of Boston City Hall from 1968 ... Read more.

City Hall’s plan to combine Dorchester’s two zoning districts into one revamped district is entering its final phases.

The proposal would do away with a Dorchester Ave.-specific region and integrate the ... Read more.

An upcoming case before the state’s highest court, stemming from the Boston City Council’s removal of convicted former Councilor Chuck Turner, could alter how city and town governing bodies regulate their own membership. ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JAN. 31, 2012…..Governor’s Council member Kelly Timilty of West Roxbury, who served under five governors on the panel that vets judicial nominees, died early Tuesday morning after a brief illness, a ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports arresting a Randolph man on charges he shot somebody on Christmas morning, three months after he was arrested on charges he tried to shoot somebody else.

Alcindy ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports arresting a Greenwood Street resident who'd finally snapped at all the parents who stop in front of his driveway to pick up kids at the school across the street.

According to ... Read more.

Dorchester’s nine remaining Catholic parishes will be bundled into five different “pastoral collaboratives” in a proposal laid out last Friday during a meeting of clergy at St. Peter’s Church on Bowdoin Street. The ... Read more.

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