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The Boston Police Department reports two women were found shot shortly after 8 a.m. on Saturday on Blue Hill Avenue. One woman, found at Charlotte Street, was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The second woman, found near American... Read more
Four wanted for Dorchester jewelry robbery
The Boston Police Department reports it is looking for four people for the robbery of $20,000 worth of jewelry at Thai Binh Jewelry, which recently opened at 1283 Dorchester Ave. According to police, one of the four walked into the shop around 3:30 p.m.... Read more
A 22 year-old Dorchester man allegedly shot and wounded a man outside of Ashmont station on Wednesday evening as stunned commuters watched and ran. Balfour McLean was arrested near the scene of the 7:30 p.m. incident by members of the Boston Police Drug... Read more
City Outlines Response to Potential Ebola Threat from Chris Lovett on Vimeo. While a Boston Ebola case is unlikely, officials say, everyone from medical emergency workers on city streets and in the Port of Boston to nurses and doctors in the hospitals are... Read more
The Boston Police Department reporst a man was shot around 7:40 p.m. on Wednesday just outside the Ashmont MBTA station. Officers on patrol saw the shooting and immediately took off after the suspect on foot. Police say they captured Balfour McLean, 22,... Read more
Boston Fire Captain Mark Loschiavo, 41, is a native of Dorchester who lives with his wife Diana, also a Dorchester native, and their two children in the Ashmont-Adams neighborhood. The Reporter caught up with Capt. Loschiavo this week, just days after he... Read more
Though there have been no recorded cases of mosquito-borne illnesses in Boston this year, the Boston Public Health Commission is warning residents to take simple precautions after a mosquito pool in Roxbury tested positive for the West Nile Virus. In... Read more
A team of thieves used hammers to smash display cases inside a Dorchester Ave. jewelry shop, making off with a “good amount” of merchandise in a brazen robbery on Monday afternoon. Boston Police say that two men and a woman— possible aided by an... Read more
The Boston Licensing Board has rejected acouple's request to let them turn an old Chinese restaurant into a new Vietnamese place, because of the husband's criminal past and his failure to fully own up to it at a board hearing this week. The board rarely... Read more
Surveillance photo of alleged bank robber
Police in Bedford say a Dorchester man held up a Bank of America branch Monday afternoon - and that they were able to arrest him three hours later after people recognized him from surveillance photos they posted online. Police say Joseph Barrett, walked... Read more

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