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After two months of preparing for the 10th anniversary celebration of the Vietnamese American Community Center on Sept. 29, Nam Pham has many people to thank.

The executive director of the Vietnamese American ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino is expected to endorse U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren at a Friday rally in Roslindale, sources tell the Reporter.

The afternoon rally in Roslindale Square will come after a ... Read more.

A Dorchester man with a long record for breaking and entering was arraigned yesterday on charges related to the dozens of purloined items from suburban homes police say they found in his apartment during a search earlier ... Read more.

Ross Wilson wears a sense of relief that’s currently in fashion inside City Hall and the Boston Teachers Union on Mt. Vernon St.

The 36-year-old assistant superintendent was a member of Superintendent Carol Johnson ... Read more.

State and city officials, community leaders and residents gathered at the Mattapan branch of the Boston Public Library for the fifth in a series of Mattapan Breakfast Series meetings on Tuesday morning. Hosted by state ... Read more.

The presence of prostitutes on Dorchester Avenue will be the focus of a Monday night meeting at Saint Mark’s church hall. The neighborhood-wide meeting, set for next Monday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., is being put together by ... Read more.

In the cavernous Room 241, the city’s Elections Department is preparing for the 2012 election, which will feature races for the White House and one of the Bay State’s two US Senate seats.

But a few floors up, all ... Read more.

Boston Public Schools officials plan to roll out several proposals to refit the school assignment policy on Monday by presenting options to a mayorally appointed advisory committee at the Frederick Pilot Middle School on ... Read more.

US Sen. Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, held dueling events on Monday in Dorchester and Mattapan. Brown, a Wrentham Republican, swung by Blue Hill Avenue’s Auto Service and Tire and provided ... Read more.

It was still in the early innings of a Saturday morning baseball game at Town Field when Jim Collyer – Dorchester’s answer to Johnny Pesky – went over to the first base line and opened up his fold-up chair. Soon after, ... Read more.

A Blue Hill Ave. restaurant was abruptly closed today after a city task force discovered filthy conditions and a dangerously clogged air vent above the stove. City officials — who descended on the 300 block of Blue Hill ... Read more.

Nearly two weeks after Mayor Thomas Menino sent them back to the drawing board, the City Council on Wednesday voted 7 to 6 in favor a map crafted by City Councillors Tito Jackson and Matt O’Malley and aimed at redrawing ... Read more.

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown distanced himself on Tuesday from remarks Mitt Romney made at a private fundraiser where he said 47 percent of the country is “dependent upon government” and believe they are “victims.”

"That ... Read more.

The Boston Public Health Commission said today that a Dorchester man had contracted West Nile Virus— the second confirmed human case in a Boston resident this year. The man in his 40s was hospitalized, but has been ... Read more.

Holding slim leads in a pair of new polls and coming off a campaign rally Saturday with Gov. Deval Patrick, U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren planned to tout support from small businesses Monday morning at an event ... Read more.

Family and friends of 16 year-old Jaivon Blake, who was shot to death on Geneva Ave. last September, will hold a candlelight vigil in his memory on the anniversary of his death— Tuesday, Sept. 25 from 7-10 p.m. Shameka ... Read more.

A man riding his bicycle southbound on Morrissey Boulevard was thrown from his bicycle and killed early Friday morning, State Police report.

The collision happened near Malibu Beach around 12:30 a.m. No charges ... Read more.

A Dorchester man convicted of a firing a gun at a Boston cop in 2006 faces arraignment Friday on new charges that he fought and injured a Boston Police sergeant during an arrest off Talbot Avenue this week, the Suffolk ... Read more.

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