Public Safety
A web-based system for criminal background checks is helping ex-offenders in Massachusetts apply for jobs and other opportunities without being automatically disqualified, while sentencing reform has led to nearly 400 inmates serving drug offense... Read more
Two Washington Street business also targeted in gun-related incidents on Thursday
A group of teenagers allegedly beat and robbed a man at gunpoint on Thursday evening as he walked along Ashmont Street just after 7 p.m. According to a police report, the... Read more
New state-mandated health coverage benefits beginning in 2015 for services such as alcohol and drug counseling or abuse-deterrent opioids will add roughly $2 to $18 a year to the cost of an annual policy, according to a report published Thursday by state... Read more
Life-changing, home saving ramp on Whitman StreetYvonne Ellison has lived in her home on Whitman Street near Codman Square for 35 years. A 65-year-old divorcee, she has raised four boys here on a quiet, dead-end side street near Dorchester High School. It... Read more
Evidentiary hearings in the retrial motion of Dorchester resident Sean K. Ellis, who was convicted in 1995 of the 1993 murder of Boston Police Det. John Mulligan, wrapped up last week with the testimony of retired Boston Sgt. Robert Foilb, who inventoried... Read more
Two buildings in Mattapan undergoing renovation this month are in the spotlight as the city continues to scramble to find space to house homeless people who were displaced by the abrupt closure of shelter facilities on Long Island in October when Mayor... Read more
The owner of an Adams Street barber shop was stabbed to death last evening at 661 Adams St. The victim was found in the street outside the Clover City Unisex Barber Shop. Friends and family who gathered outside the store identified the victim as Sean... Read more
The road to securing a pardon is a steep climb for ex-convicts in Massachusetts. In the first seven years of Governor Deval Patrick’s tenure, only five pardons— out of a total of 326 requests— made it past the the Advisory Board of Pardons, an arm of the... Read more
Mark Wahlberg’s petition seeking a pardon for his 1988 conviction for a violent robbery and assault on Dorchester Avenue has triggered a sharp backlash since it was first reported by New England Cable News last Thursday.
The 43-year-old actor and... Read more
One of my favorite songs is “Georgia on My Mind.” Over the last few months, and especially over the past few days, I could hear myself humming … “Fields Corner is on my mind.”
Last month, VietAID celebrated its 20th anniversary, an event coincident with... Read more
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