South Boston News

The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, already the largest building of its kind in New England, would double in size under an expansion plan unveiled yesterday by state officials, eventually becoming a 1-million-square-foot tourism "campus'' on the South Boston Waterfront.

Setting you up for a smorgasbord. SWAP Party of Gold What: Trade in that chunky gilt monstrosity and receive an instant check for its value.

The president of the Jamaica Plain Business and Professional Association faced a possible felony vandalism charge in court this month after he wrote protest graffiti on two advertising scooters that were illegally parked on Centre Street for days.

District C-6 reports on three recent incidents in South Boston: On Nov. 17 at 12:30 a.m., a man was attacked and robbed at Columbia Road and Carmody Court - his two muggers got away with $80; he sustained facial injuries.

Three different banks were robbed all within hours of each other in Boston Wednesday and police are investigating as to whether or not the crimes are related.

Crews with the made-in-Boston spy flick "Knight & Day" wrapped filming in Boston earlier this week and have set up shop in Sevilla on Monday, Nov.

The following is a summary of events surrounding four recent muggings that resulted in purse snatchings.

Ben Affleck's blue-collar heist flick " The Town " is crossing state lines on Monday, Nov.

At mid-day yesterday, tropical storm Ida continued to douse Southside with rain and gusting winds, with South Boston reporting a total of 4.10 inches in its rain gauge, and the swollen Dan River slipping its banks.

The Mattapan Community Health Center will hold a free swine flu vaccination clinic today from 5 to 9 p.m., according to a schedule posted on the Boston Public Health Commission Web site.

Almost 750 people were vaccinated against the H1N1 Virus, or Swine Flu, Monday afternoon at a Dorchester health clinic.

The overhaul of fifteen intersections along Dorchester Avenue took a giant step forward recently with the opening of bids from contractors competing for the much anticipated project.

Voters lined up at the Hemenway School in Hyde Park before polls opened at 7 a.m. South End: Reluctance to change Ben Venido Benson shrugged his shoulders and laughed when asked today why he voted again for four-term incumbent Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

Boston police are looking for the culprits in three unarmed robberies that have been reported in the city's South Boston neighborhood in the past two weeks.

Boston police today released a photograph of a man who matches the description of an assailant accused of mugging three women in South Boston in the last two weeks.

It was Mayor Thomas Meninoa s toughest test in sixteen years and he passed with the highest grade: The onetime Hyde Park city councillor bested challenger Michael Flaherty of South Boston by 16,355 votes, thereby rolling to his fifth term and into the citya s history books.

The showdown between Mayor Thomas M. Menino and City Councilor at Large Michael Flaherty Jr.

Election Day. Blissful sleep for the next two weeks has never been closer. Team Floon splits up to hit polling locations throughout the city during the day, meeting up at Venenzia in Dorchester for their election night party.

Last week, Steve Pagliuca, the 400 Million Dollar Man, was greeting ordinary folk on East Broadway in South Boston.

A Hunking School custodian told police sometime over the weekend an unknown party used a blue paint marker to write on the school's exterior wall, police said.