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The Department of Conservation is advising the public about road closures in South Boston on Thursday, July 21 for the annual L. Street Road Race.

The roads to be closed are: Mt. Vernon Street and ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports three men were stabbed in a fight Monday afternoon at 324 Talbot Ave.

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The Boston Police Department says an argument over a blocked driveway on Olney Street Saturday morning ended with one man punching his neighbor in the face and firing a gun at him before unblocking the driveway by jumping ... Read more.

The Boston Fire Department reports the Venezia Rrestaurant in Port Norfolk lost power Saturday morning when a wall at a storage building under demolition next door collapsed, taking power lines down with it.

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Law enforcement officials are stepping up efforts to draw out tips from neighborhood residents with information on crimes, with launch of a multi-platform ad campaign that says the program guarantees tipsters’ anonymity ... Read more.

A 20 year-old Dorchester man has been arrested and charged with the June 26th murder of 25-year-old Aaron Wornum near Edward ... Read more.

The City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a proposal aimed at cracking down on absentee landlords whose properties ... Read more.

With Massachusetts poised to lose one of its ten seats in Congress, a pair of minority-focused coalitions offered up their proposals this week to the special legislative committee charged with the task of subtraction. ... Read more.

A Dorchester pastor has received a much-needed abatement from city tax collectors, who sent him a hefty bill earlier this year.

The properties in question included the former St. Kevin’s Parish property in Uphams ... Read more.

Thousands of expatriates from Angola to Zimbabwe are expected to converge this Saturday, July 16 at City Hall Plaza for the second annual African Festival of Boston (AFoB). Massachusetts is home to around 80,000 African ... Read more.

Staff Sergeant Steve Keenan, a member of the 164th Transportation Battalion headquartered in Dorchester, has been deployed to Iraq and Kuwait in the past six years.

Keenan was first deployed to Iraq in 2005 as a ... Read more.

In the age of electronics and the internet, the City of Boston Elections Department keeps it low key. Yesterday morning at City Hall, fourteen names were tossed into a gold metal tumbler and then pulled out, one by one, ... Read more.

The Elma Lewis Playhouse in Franklin Park opens for its seventh consecutive year of summer entertainment on Tuesday, July 12. The city's ParkARTS program helped re-establish this live performance summer tradition by ... Read more.

The Action for Boston Community Development, Inc. center in Mattapan will be providing pre-application assistance for distressed homeowners interested in $50,000 foreclosure prevention loans offered through the ... Read more.

On July 19, a group led by city officials will walk along Dorchester Avenue from Fields Corner to Peabody Square to explore the walking environment of the busy Dorchester thruway.

The program, titled ... Read more.

City health officials say that the year's first cases of West Nile Virus-infected insects have been detected from trap pools in West Roxbury this week. While there have not yet been any reported human cases of the ... Read more.

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