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Thousands of expatriates from Algeria to Zimbabwe are expected to converge this Saturday, July 18, at City Hall Plaza for the sixth annual African Festival of Boston (AFoB), a multi-cultural, multi-goal event.

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A Boston police officer suffered a possible concussion and a large laceration trying to arrest Carlos Agrinsoni for allegedly exposing himself, a Suffolk County prosecutor said today.

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The Boston Housing Authority has won federal approval to change the way it distributes housing units to senior citizens and disabled adults in the 36 elder-disabled apartment buildings owned by the city of Boston. ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a man shot on Bailey Street at Dorchester Avenue Saturday evening died.

The man was shot shortly before 6 p.m., police say. He appeared at the Carney Hospital with ... Read more.

Leaders in Boston’s faith community are calling for area businesses to stop selling imitation guns and for parents to stop purchasing imitation guns for their children.

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An automated phone poll of Massachusetts voters by a Florida firm found support for the complete elimination of the Pacheco law, which both branches of the Legislature suspended in part in the state budget delivered ... Read more.

The firehouse on Parish Street on Meetinghouse Hill, home to the Boston Fire Department’s Engine 17, will get a $13 million overhaul, thanks to the new city budget that was approved last month by Mayor Martin Walsh and ... Read more.

Saturday (11th) – Fair Verona Festival, a free community arts day, at Blue Hill Club, Harambee Park, Talbot Avenue, Dorchester from 4-8 p.m. Includes workshops and performances by artists in dance, music ... Read more.

57 Fairmount St. after fire

A two-alarm fire reported around 3:20 p.m. on Tuesday at 57 Fairmount St. displaced three residents and did an estimated $150,000 damage, the Boston Fire Department reports.

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Residents on Port Norfolk have begun conversations about a potential residential development at the Russo Marine site next to Venezia Restaurant. The 206-unit development, proposed by Venezia Restaurant’s owner Ralph ... Read more.

Saturday (4th) – Independence Day in the United States of America.

Monday (6th) – The Pope’s Hill Neighborhood Association present annual Free Theater Arts program for children at ... Read more.

Warning of a worsening humanitarian crisis, Haitian and Dominican community leaders joined forces with immigration advocates yesterday on the steps of the State House to denounce large-scale deportations of Dominicans of ... Read more.

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