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A man's leg was grazed by a bullet around 10:20 p.m. on Thursday at the busway at Ashmont station.
He was taken to Carney Hospital. The station was briefly shut as Transit and Boston police ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports officers responding to a call about gunfire late Wednesday night found a man with gunshot wounds at 633 Cummins Highway.
He was taken to Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, ... Read more.
State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry is expected to resign her House seat sometime in the next week and be sworn into the state Senate next Thursday, June 13. While the Dorchester Democrat will be preparing to join the 40- ... Read more.
Performances by Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul, Black 47, and Atlantic Steps highlight this year’s Boston Irish Festival, which will take place June 7-9 at the Irish Cultural Centre of New England in Canton. The ... Read more.
On the night of March 27, John Barros’s cell phone would not stop buzzing with text messages. As he sat at a School Committee meeting around the corner from City Hall, word was quickly circulating that Mayor Thomas Menino ... Read more.
Bill Walczak used to look outside his window at sunrise and see shards of broken glass everywhere. Savin Hill Park, with its expansive views of the rest of the neighborhood, the gas tank and Dorchester Bay, was often a “ ... Read more.
The Bearded Lady caused quite the sensation last Sunday as s/he blew kisses to well-wishers along the Dorchester Avenue parade route from aboard the “DotOUT under the Big Top” float. The balloon –decked, striped circus ... Read more.
The city agency tasked with planning and economic development is setting up an advisory group for improving the Blue Hill Avenue and Cummins Highway area, which is plagued by blighted properties, that will work with the ... Read more.
Patrick G. ‘Pat’ McDonagh, a lifelong Dorchester resident who became one of the neighborhood’s favorite purveyors of pizzas, calzones and sub sandwiches, died suddenly last Saturday at his Lower Mills home. McDonagh, 60, ... Read more.
Moments after a hit/run driver crashed into cars on Oyster Bay Road around 8 p.m. on Monday, a security guard shot the apparent driver on Mt. Vernon Street, in front of the Dever school.
The driver, Leroy Wiggins, ... Read more.
(Updated, June 6) Residents on both sides of the Neponset River will be treated to a fireworks show on Sunday, June 9 at Hutchinson Field in Milton from 5-9 p.m. The event was originally set for Friday night, but has been ... Read more.
Temperature soared into the high 80s as thousands of sun-soaked people marched the three-plus miles up Dorchester Avenue on Sunday in the 50th anniversary Dot Day Parade. Tens of thousands more lined the parade route and ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department says a man firing a gun from a car outside a party on Willowwood St. around 1:50 a.m. on Sunday turned his gun on arriving officers, who returned fire, fatally wounding him.
In a ... Read more.
The candidates hoping to succeed Mayor Thomas Menino will face off in forums in the morning and at night next month. Two forums are scheduled for Wed., June 5, with one at 8:30 a.m., put together by the Boston Society of ... Read more.
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