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With unusually high levels of uncertainty circling around the federal funding that buoys more than $16 billion of the state budget, Gov. Maura Healey's finance secretary said Thursday that federal cuts would be too big of a problem for the executive... Read more
Police arrested a 16-year-old from Mattapan on Wednesday evening (March 5) after a brazen shooting incident on Erie and Ellington Streets that upended the neighborhood from Columbia Road to Codman Square for two hours. ShotSpotter activations went off... Read more
A Bowdoin Street restaurant is hoping to be one of several businesses selected to receive a full liquor license in an upcoming second round of awards as part of an official push to expand opportunities in underserved parts of the city, but is getting... Read more
Hundreds of people gathered on Boston City Hall plaza this morning for a rally organized to support immigrant communities and Mayor Wu as she began a long day of testimony and questioning in front of a Congressional Oversight committee in Washington, D.C... Read more
One of 5 responses to city’s call for health-career academy’s new home The city of Boston is reviewing five proposals — including one from a team that includes the current owner of the largely shuttered Carney Hospital campus in Dorchester— as it... Read more
Despite a surge in influenza cases across the City of Boston seen since December, the city’s top public health official says the latest data indicate a downward trend in reported cases and emergency department visits in recent days. Dr. Bisola Ojikutu,... Read more
Dorchester resident Dean Toulan says that in the seven years he has lived in and walked around his Armandine Street neighborhood, close to Tech Boston High School (formerly Dorchester High School) and the Dorchester YMCA, he has had around 20 near-misses... Read more
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Aizavier Roache, 31, of Roxbury, to 4 3/4 years in prison for selling at least six guns he'd obtained from a pal who bought them at gun shops in South Carolina. One of those guns was used in a double shooting on... Read more
A man who was shot in the head as he sat behind the wheel of his car on Levant Street in Dorchester early Sunday morning is in stable condition, according to a Boston Police account of the incident obtained by The Reporter. Police who descended on the... Read more
Photo of suspect in black jacket with gray hood.
The Boston Police Department reports it is looking for a man they say stabbed a clerk in the stomach at O'Brien's Market and Deli, 1660 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester, around 8:45 p.m. on Thursday. The suspect, surveillance photos of whom BPD released, is... Read more

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