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UPDATE: Police report LaRue was found and returned safely home Wednesday evening.

The Boston Police Department is seeking the public's help to find LaRue Henderson, 13, who hasn't been seen since yesterday ... Read more.

Fearing night-time disruptions from trash pick-ups, the civic group for the Ashmont Hill neighborhood is backing a push to regulate the timing of commercial trash collection.

The Ashmont Hill Association last week ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, FEB. 27, 2012……Massachusetts heads towards its March 6 presidential primary with about 80,000 fewer registered voters than October 2010, a month before the last statewide election.

Figures ... Read more.

The FBI has launched a campaign to find John J. Hartin, a Dorchester man who fled the area after being charged with five counts of statutory rape in 1993.

The FBI says there's a $25,000 reward for ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, FEB. 23, 2012…..Gov. Deval Patrick said Thursday that his administration is considering the use of excess snow-and-ice removal funds to help limit the service cuts proposed by the MBTA, as the cash- ... Read more.

Neponset brush fire. Photo by Boston Fire.

Firefighters had to lay several hundred feet of hose Wednesday night to battle a brush fire along the Neponset River in Lower Mills.

The brush fire, reported around 7:15 p.m., consumed brush behind Ventua Street, ... Read more.

Boston Public School officials this week called for district-wide improvements in order to ensure a re-designed school assignment plan is fit for public approval by its December 2012 deadline.

Superintendent Dr. ... Read more.

Can’t Wait Productions, a fledgling, Dorchester-based theater company, was founded on the concept that actors and artists do not have to wait for an opportunity or an audition and can take control of their own careers. ... Read more.

It’s far too early to know if Dorchester’s one-and-only hospital can survive and thrive under the for-profit model of its new owners, Steward Health Care Systems. But for those seeking a reliable indicator that Carney ... Read more.

Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to erroneously repeat it to their supporters. Such was the case with U.S. Sen. Scott Brown last week when his office uploaded a video statement onto YouTube about the ... Read more.

Dorchester’s arts and cultural scene could get a boost as city officials and local activists work to designate parts of the neighborhood as a “cultural district.” State lawmakers signed off on legislation authorizing “ ... Read more.

Community leaders and elected officials inaugurated the Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative at the Strand Theatre on Tuesday afternoon. The two-year program will call on economic development groups, city and state ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports two men were shot around 10:40 a.m. on Tuesday at 86 Norton St.

One victim, 43, is in critical condition at Boston Medical Center, police say. The other, 44, was treated at BMC ... Read more.

Scores of Dorchester students are learning to ice skate for the first time thanks to a special program that brings city kids into the Boston Common’s Frog Pond for weekly lessons.

The initiative is led by the ... Read more.

Members of the McCormack Civic Association have opened up another front in group’s long-running battle over a former warehouse-turned-Asian-supermarket in the South Bay mall. Association members contend they did not get a ... Read more.

A New Hampshire company hired to oversee renovations to a Dorchester park is facing punitive sanctions from the city of Boston for its failure to hire city and minority residents for construction jobs.

The park — ... Read more.

A Dorchester man was charged with stabbing his elderly downstairs neighbor to death early this morning.

Tu Nguyen, 28, of 45 Codman Hill Ave. was ordered to Bridgewater for 20 days of observation at his arraignment ... Read more.

Keisha Gilmore, 25, was found with a gunshot wound to the head in a car outside 26 Alabama St. around 9 p.m. on Sunday. She was rushed to a local hospital, but died, Boston Police report.

Anyone with information is ... Read more.

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