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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.

Victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti continue to find solace and medical help at Dorchester’s Codman Square Health Center, which has created a special program to focus on the specific needs of the Haitian clients still ... Read more.

City Council President Stephen Murphy appears to be shifting course on the 13-member body’s approach to the issue of siting a casino in Boston.

In an appearance on Chris Lovett’s Neighborhood Network News (BNN-TV) ... Read more.

Rolling around next Monday is the only national holiday to honor a former Dorchester resident. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lived here while he pursued his doctoral studies at BU, and in 1952 even served as Interim Pastor ... Read more.

Dorchester churches and community organizations are planning a week of events to celebrate the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.

Young people will be celebrating with service on Jan. 14 when over 250 ... Read more.

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