Dorchester News

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.

A man was shot and killed near an elementary school in Dorchester Tuesday. According to police, the 23-year-old man was shot in the area of Westvale and Bowdoin Streets.

"I had to do something,'' said Barbara Pero. Barbara Pero's heart was light as she left the downtown Boston condo Monday night where her twin grandchildren live.

This morning around 11:56AM, officers from District C-11 responded to the intersection of Bowdoin and Westville Streets for a report of a person shot.

Violence returned yesterday to the neighborhood surrounding the John Marshall Elementary School in Dorchester when a young man was shot to death at an intersection about 100 yards from the school.

The police have since cleared the site, but the suspect is still at large. "They should make sure I have a safe place to vote," said Katherine Crawford, who came to vote at the John Marshall Elementary School on Westville Street.

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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.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office said today a six-week investigation failed to find enough evidence to charge a male Boston police officer with rape of a female colleague: For the past six weeks, Boston Police detectives and Suffolk County prosecutors conducted a comprehensive investigation of a report by a female Boston Police officer ...

Three potential buyers each claim to have deals to buy some or all of Super 88's stores.

Small, eager children in costume were just emerging, with parents in tow, from their homes to begin trick-or-treating this afternoon in a Dorchester neighborhood, as police scoured the area for evidence in a shooting that left two men hospitalized with wounds to their legs.

The City of Boston's new "Street Improvement Team" has plans to tackle Mattapan Square on Thursday, October 29 for a quick but intensive clean-up of local streets and outdoor equipment.

October 26, 2009 - " The Fields Corner branch of the Boston Public Library will reopen on Monday, November 2 at 10:00 a.m. following the completion of a building improvement project there.

Billy Lynch left Dorchester 72 years ago, and they're pretty sure they've finally found him, a long way from home, deep in the ground in China.