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A 20 year-old woman was killed and three others wounded by two hooded gunman Sunday night in a brazen ambush on a leafy and normally peaceful Mattapan sidestreet. The incident has ratcheted up fears of escalating gang ... Read more.
A 10 year-old Dorchester girl, who is a standout in the classroom and the swimming pool, has added an exciting new accomplishment to her resume this summer: Kristen Fields has been crowned Miss Massachusetts by the ... Read more.
Eighteen-year-old Nia Ferguson of Dorchester has been singing with her church choir since the age of five. Even at that young age, Ferguson says, she decided that music would always be a part of her life.
Earlier ... Read more.
The Dorchester Park Association is strategizing for a battle against a vine and a handful of invasive plants that threaten the future of the park's tree canopy.
"If you look at the park in the wintertime you can ... Read more.
It will take a some work to approach Mayor Thomas Menino's goal of 100,000 new trees in Boston by 2020, announced in April, but a few gaps in Dorchester's tree canopy are starting to look leafy.
"I love it," said ... Read more.
"Take Me Out To The Concert!"
That's what hundreds of Dorchester sports fans and music lovers were humming last Sunday afternoon as they left "A Salute to the Red Sox," the third annual Boston Landmarks Orchestra ... Read more.
State Sen. Jack Hart, who in recent weeks was seen as a finalist for the open job to lead the Massachusetts Bio-Technology Council, announced last Thursday that he was no longer a candidate for the position. Early this ... Read more.
Against a backdrop of eroding sandcastles on Revere Beach Aug. 1, Governor Deval Patrick announced $2 million in new funding for 19 metropolitan beaches from Nahant to Hull, including three in Dorchester. More beach ... Read more.
Tom Finneran, once the most powerful and, by his own measure, the most unpopular man in Massachusetts politics, sits on a curb outside the Stockyard restaurant in Brighton on a steamy July day with much of the sizzle in ... Read more.
In the world of AAU basketball, teams from across the country compete on an enormous scale, players dreaming of the chance to raise a trophy and maybe one day stand on an NBA court. It's a league the fuels competition in ... Read more.
For Tom Finneran, self-styled "most unpopular man" in state politics from 1999 to 2004, his days in federal court earlier this year, where he pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice for making misleading and ... Read more.
News that state Sen. Jack Hart is a top contender to lead the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council touched off a wave of speculation in the neighborhood this week, as local elected officials and other politically connected ... Read more.
The Boston Fire Department likes to think of themselves as one large family, and even if their family outings might not be a trip to ... Read more.
In the first big hire of his new administration, UMass-Boston Chancellor Keith Motley tapped a twelve-year campus veteran this week for his chief of staff.
Christopher Hogan, who lives in Lynn with his wife and ... Read more.
The Boston City Council is considering a home rule petition that would impose a mandatory minimum penalty for those found in possession of an unregistered gun in their home or work. Under current Massachusetts law, ... Read more.
It's just before eight o'clock on a cool summer morning at the Morton Street stop along the Fairmount Commuter Rail Line. Just ... Read more.
At first glance, the new GoKids Boston space at UMass-Boston looks like any other fitness facility. It's equipped with all the things one would expect to find in a gym; there's stationary bikes and Nautilus equipment. But ... Read more.
Mattapan is one of Boston's most culturally diverse communities. It is also known to be one of the least healthy.
Over the years, studies conducted by the Boston Public Health Commission have repeatedly found that ... Read more.
Since 1990, Juana Rodriguez has taken into her own home- and been a foster mom to- 75 children. She has cared for some of the most troubled children and young adults in the Department of Social Services's (DSS) Boston ... Read more.
An announcement by the state's Commissioner of Insurance this week that she intends to change the way that auto insurance rates are set in Massachusetts has sparked concern among lawmakers and some in the industry who ... Read more.
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