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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.

Crime might not always pay, but it certainly gets you places. 

At least that was the case for Gustin Gang member and informant Thomas G. “Red” Curran, whose tuxedo-clad, bullet-riddled body was found at the wheel ... Read more.

“It’s like trading in your old broken-down Chevy for a new Beemer,” explains Father Vincent Daily, the pastor at St. Gregory’s church in Lower Mills. Some might raise him and say the new organ that was installed in the ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino on Tuesday renewed a pledge to adopt a “radically different” student assignment plan for the city’s schools. In his nineteenth State of the City address, he also called for the expansion of ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JAN. 17, 2012…. Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday expressed confidence that he would not be forced to choose between signing a bill that eliminates parole for repeat violent offenders or vetoing the ... Read more.

State and Boston Police say a man driving a stolen car from Medford sped away from a state trooper today, eventually causing a four-way crash on I-93 and then fleeing on foot into Dorchester's Port Norfolk section, where ... Read more.

A man in his 20s was fatally shot Saturday afternoon at 23 Trull St., the Boston Police Department reports.

Police say the man was found inside the house and was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was ... Read more.

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story listed the incorrect address on Tremlett St. The address that was raided was 33 Tremlett St.

The Boston Police Department reports arresting Paul Brown ... Read more.

Thursday's heavy rain and wind has closed sections of Morrissey Boulevard, but roads are expected to reopen in time for rush hour traffic.

Currently the expressway exit onto Morrissey is closed to traffic, as well ... Read more.

A Dorchester man identified only by an alias was one of 50 people indicted as part of a ring that allegedly used the identities of real Puerto Ricans to provide documentation for foreigners in the U.S.

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More than 250 people crowded into the Dudley Square Branch Library on Saturday to voice their concerns about a pair of bills that would implement a “three strikes” sentencing policy in Massachusetts, claiming the ... Read more.

City officials, in an attempt to get celebrated author Dennis Lehane onto the Boston Public Library’s board of trustees, did a simple thing: They asked.

“I got the feeling they were circling me for a little bit, ... Read more.

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