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Mayoral hopefuls on Tuesday pledged to diversify the police force and aggressively enforce the city’s jobs policy for residents, minorities, and women on public construction sites. They made their promises to the several ... Read more.

Thirty-eight floors above the Financial District, inside the Harvard Club at One Federal Street, there was the air of a family reunion recently as former state Rep. Willie Mae Allen smiled and mingled among the three ... Read more.

School officials are moving ahead with a proposal to create the city’s first inclusive K-12 pathway school in Dorchester. The proposal would link the William Henderson Inclusion School, which handles K to 5, and the ... Read more.

Former State House aide Dan Cullinane beat back two independents Tuesday to claim the 12th Suffolk House District seat left vacant when former Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry was elected to the State Senate earlier this year. ... Read more.

District 4 Councillor Charles Yancey will be facing a total of 14 challengers on the Sept. 24 ballot: 11 fellow candidates for mayor and 3 contenders for his district seat, which Yancey is also running for.

Yancey ... Read more.

On Friday, Sept. 13 from 7:30-9 p.m., the cobblestone courtyard of the Savin Hill Yoga Coop on Pearl Street will be filled for a free public evening of fiction and poetry readings by Dorchester and UMass Boston (UMB) ... Read more.

Stephen Koenig, 19, attained Eagle Scout rank— the highest in the Boy Scouts —last Saturday during a ceremony at the St. Mark’s VFW Post. The Dorchester teen, who is presently a senior at John D. O’Bryant High, has been ... Read more.

In response to a News Service questionnaire, nine of the 12 candidates for mayor of Boston offered their positions on whether the city should contribute funding for additional MBTA services in and around Boston. At ... Read more.

Most of the mayoral candidates will be in Dorchester tonight for the Boston Teachers Union forum. Boston magazine contributing editor David Bernstein will moderate the forum, which starts at 7 p.m. inside the union hall ... Read more.

Can you imagine taking the floor of the United States Senate to debate the morality of a US strike on ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department is attacks early Wednesday that sent two men to the hospital, where one of them would be pronounced dead.

Police say that shortly after 1 a.m., officers responded to a call about a man ... Read more.

At 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, Gov. Deval Patrick stepped down the front stairs of the State House with a folded American flag in his arms, beginning a commemoration for destruction that took place 12 years prior.

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Stephen Murphy looked relieved that he wasn’t in the scrum in Suffolk University’s Modern Theatre. Getting up to leave after the end of the mayoral election’s first televised debate, the City Council president looked over ... Read more.

In a 90-minute fast-paced 12-way exchange that at times resembled a raucous dinner-table argument, Boston's would-be mayors jostled for voters' attention with just under two weeks until the Sept. 24 preliminary that will ... Read more.

Fifteen days to Sept. 24. Most candidates have back-to-back forums on their plates tonight: First up is a forum focusing on arts and culture. That forum starts at 6 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre. Then they walk down the ... Read more.

A look at the day ahead. There are 16 days left until the Sept. 24 preliminary.

CGR ON MHP: Hoping to get some national attention on the race, former state Rep. Charlotte Golar Richie will appear on ... Read more.

For the second time this week, the mayoral news cycle was taken over by a Southie-centric storyline. But that had wrapped up by the end of the day, as the candidates prepared to plunge into the weekend, one of three left ... Read more.

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