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While teachers held a boisterous rally outside Boston Public School headquarters last week, school committee officials inside announced that the school system will likely face a $28 million shortfall in the coming fiscal ... Read more.

Gov. Deval Patrick’s assessment of the state of the commonwealth clocked in at nearly 3,400 words. But there was little mention in Monday’s address of two topics now dominating kitchen tables and the halls of government: ... Read more.

A pair of silver cups made 311 years ago for a former minister at Dorchester’s First Parish Church were sold at an auction in New York last Friday for $1.08 million. The Governor Stoughton Cups, created in 1701 by ... Read more.

A raid in Savin Hill earlier this month landed two men behind bars in connection to an alleged crack cocaine distribution ring and has renewed scrutiny on the property’s owner.

Boston Police officers from the C-11 ... Read more.

While several new developments are poised to make their debut in Mattapan Square in the new year, one veteran merchant has decided to make a move to a new part of the neighborhood. Roberts Photo Studio recently relocated ... Read more.

Last year, the Massachusetts court system asked nearly 700,000 residents to take enter jury pools across the state.

While few people look forward to getting that notice in the mail, representatives from the state’s ... Read more.

Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) held its Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) campaign kickoff last Thursday to encourage more low and moderate income families and individuals to file for tax returns and receive ... Read more.

Three Dorchester residents are playing key roles in the Boston debut of Some Explicit Polaroids, a play by Mark Ravenhill that will be staged at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Calderwood Pavilion next month.

The ... Read more.

South Boston Sen. Jack Hart and Worcester Sen. Harriette Chandler moved up the Democratic leadership ladder in the Senate Tuesday and Sen. Karen Spilka of Ashland broke into the ranks of Senate President Therese Murray's ... Read more.

Boston Police executing a search warrant at an alleged drug dealer's 30 King St. home found more than just drugs, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office: They also picked up a Ruger P345 .45 caliber ... Read more.

The Boston Water and Sewer Commission will transfer ownership of the Calf Pasture Pump Station on Columbia Point to UMass Boston in exchange for $2.1 million over 15 years in scholarships to Boston Public School students ... Read more.

25-27 Gallivan Blvd. Photo by BFD.

A fire reported around 1 p.m. on Saturday in a two-family house at 25-27 Gallivan Blvd. quickly went to two alarms.

The Boston Fire Department reports the fire - just steps from the fire station at Gallivan ... Read more.

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

The Boston Police Department reports arresting Melvin Wright, 28, on charges he sent another man to Boston Medical Center with multiple life-threatening stab wounds shortly before midnight on Wednesday.

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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) will host a public meeting on Jan. 30 to discuss reconstruction plans for a bridge that carries the Dorchester leg of the Red Line over Clayton Street near Fields ... Read more.

She’s been a Boston Public School teacher, a poet and the head of the Codman Academy Public Charter School in Dorchester. This month, Meg Campbell picked up another title: Boston School Committee member.

Her ... Read more.

The O’Hearn Storage Building in Fields Corner is home to a Post Office and a handful of small businesses, but local historians and developers believe a renovation project could be the key to unlocking a forgotten piece of ... Read more.

The cameras may have been trained on Mayor Thomas Menino on Tuesday night for his State of the City address, but before the speech more than a few eyes were glancing toward the front row, where U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz ... Read more.

After nearly six months of work, the second phase of construction at the Neponset campus of Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy was completed last month.  The Academy held a dedication ceremony last Thursday night to ... Read more.

There’s a new face at the Lower Mills Library. Angela Bonds is finding her stride as the branch’s children’s librarian. A Roxbury native, she worked at the Central Library in Copley Square for 13 years.

As a ... Read more.

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