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Concerned about how the expansion of the South Bay Mall might affect close-by neighborhoods, the McCormack Civic Association, the group that deals with concerns in the Polish triangle and nearby areas, will hold a ... Read more.

The city’s School Committee would be converted into a hybrid group of elected and appointed officials, under a bill District 3 Councillor Frank Baker filed this week.

The home rule petition splits the panel into a ... Read more.

A Weymouth man who allegedly put a Boston cop in the hospital by dragging him with his car yesterday made bail ... Read more.

Resident signals firefighters

Boston firefighters responded around 4:15 p.m., Sunday, to what became a three-alarm fire at 5 Everett Ave..

Two residents became trapped by the fire. Firefighters rescued both, but not before they suffered smoke ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a Weymouth man spotted buying heroin off Columbia Road in Dorchester around noon Sunday stopped for pursuing police, then drove away - dragging an officer down the street.

The ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports arresting two men and a woman on charges they used a sawed-off shotgun to rob a man from his phone and a large amount of cash late Wednesday night in the parking lot of the Walgreens ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports arresting two local men on charges they forced people leaving a Livingstone Street apartment Thursday morning back inside at gunpoint, ordered them to lay on the floor and then ... Read more.

The latest phase of the Boston Archdiocese’s ongoing reorganization, announced on Thursday, did not include any Dorchester parishes. In a release, Cardinal Sean O’Malley said he formally accepted the plan, which over time ... Read more.

The entire state is in the midst of what appears to be a higher-than-usual influenza epidemic, but state officials said there is no need to declare a public health emergency as Boston Mayor Tom Menino did yesterday. ... Read more.

Statues of Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Barack Obama and his grandmother, and Emily the Sacred Cow are now permanently on display on the fifth floor of Columbia Point’s Healey Library. Original sculptures (or fiberglass ... Read more.

If the primary goal of supportive statements from US Sen. John Kerry and other top Democrats was to clear the field for Congressman Ed Markey in a special election to replace Kerry after he takes the oath as President ... Read more.

On Friday, Mayor Thomas Menino rose from his desk at the city-owned Parkman House to swear in School Committee member Michael O’Neill for a second four-year term on the seven-member panel. On Monday, after the first City ... Read more.

Stephen Murphy on Monday cruised through another election for City Council president, with his colleagues on the 13-member body voting unanimously to hand him the title a third time.
District 4 Councillor Charles ... Read more.

Gov. Deval Patrick is expected this week to sign a bill requiring the state to post on a quarterly basis the workforce diversity of contractors working on public projects. Supporters say the bill aims to hold contractors ... Read more.

The advisory group charged with vetting a new student assignment plan is near the finish line, from which they will hand off their proposal to Superintendent Carol Johnson and a School Committee with new leadership. ... Read more.

Billy Traft— the Dorchester boxer and Boston cop — will be part one of the featured match-ups at the upcoming TD Garden Night at the Fights on Sat., Jan. 26. Traft is scheduled to box Joe Powers as part of the card ... Read more.

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