Dorchester News

The two top candidates in the race to replace the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy will be hitting Dorchester in the coming days.

Award-winning court and crime reporter Laurel J. Sweet has been featured in the ABC miniseries "Boston 24/7" and the 9-11 documentary motion picture "Looking For My Brother." L ike the Beatles, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley and Boston police have discovered that happiness is a warm gun.

Now a state senator wants lawmakers to examine ways to close the loophole. "It needs to be reviewed.

Westville Terrace is a short, dead-end street between Geneva Avenue and Bowdoin Street in Dorchester.

Boston EMS worker who was indicted for shooting two men during a bizarre series of events at an Abington house party was found dead of apparent suicide last night by neighbors, police sources and union officials said.

Text Archive > American Libraries > History of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts History of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts This book has an editable web page on Open Library .

The big-hearted poverty agency is hoping to collect some 7,500 toys, a whopping 50 percent more than they took in last year, according to ABCD spokeswoman Susan Kooperstein.

Outgoing City Councillor At-Large Sam Yoon says he has the votes to pull his proposal to set mayoral term limits out of a City Council committee, setting up a clash with a fellow Dorchester councillor.

A shooting that Boston police called gang-related inside of a Dorchester elementary school has brought massive police and streetworker patrols to the neighborhood.

"We are taking it seriously," said Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis. "We have made it the priority of the police department to solve this case." The shooter opened fire inside John Marshall Elementary School during an after-hours program, chasing his victim into the street where he shot him repeatedly.

It was a cold day in Dorchester when Martha Coakley's ambition slammed head-on into political reality.

An aging infrastructure. A massive debt load. And 51 unfunded projects classified as a a oedanger to life and limb of passengers and/or employees.a Those are just a few of the problems facing the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the agency that oversees the Red Line and other transit lines that together provide for 1.2 million rider ...

Correction : Because of a reporting error, a Page One story Wednesday about a soldier's search for a civilian job after 20 years in the service mischaracterized Robert Hornbrook's military affiliation.

Boston Bowl on Morrissey Blvd. marked its 50th anniversary of operation in Dorchester last week, its longevity a direct result of maintaining value and the ability to adapt to changes in the business model, its owners say.

Donald Shapiro said he and his family appeared before the Massachusetts Parole Board seven times from 1993 to 2006 and implored board members not to parole a man convicted of participating in two slayings by the age of 15, including the murder of Shapiro's father-in-law in a holdup shortly after the Blizzard of 1978.

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.

An argument that began at the Kells early Sunday morning spilled onto Brighton Avenue, quickly became physical and ended with the stabbing death of Gregory Phillips, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

On Sunday, November 8, 2009, at approximately 2:16am, a Boston Police Officer, assigned out of Area D-14 , was patrolling in the area of Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue when his attention was drawn to several people in the area.

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.