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Roxbury, Massachusetts is located in Suffolk County. Zip codes in Roxbury, MA include 02119, 02120, and 02118. The median home price in Roxbury is $445,000 which is roughly $270/per square foot.

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23 hrs ago | Boston.com

Roxbury woman allegedly tried to extort lawyer to pay for breast enhancement operation

A Roxbury woman who allegedly threatened to press charges against a lawyer who brushed her with his car unless he gave her $7,000 for breast enhancement surgery has been arraigned on extortion charges, prosecutors said.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Patch.com

West Roxbury Resident Indicted in Logan Airport Bribery Case

A West Roxbury resident was among five Massport employees indicted on Tuesday for their involvement in an alleged bribery scheme at Logan Airport's cab stands.

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Wed May 15, 2013

Boston Police Dept

Boston Police Investigate a Roxbury Home Invasion and Kidnapping

At about 1:25am on Wednesday May 15, 2013 officers and detectives from District responded to 43 New Whitney Street, Roxbury for a home invasion.

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WBUR-AM Boston

For The 'New Boston,' Concern That Opportunity To Reshape City Council Might Slip Away

For champions of the "new Boston" - younger, more diverse - there was a moment of real anxiety a few weeks after Mayor Thomas Menino announced he would not seek re-election. The early slate of candidates to replace him looked a lot like the old Boston, after all: white, male and with plenty of experience in politics.

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Sun May 12, 2013

Boston.com

In life and words, Boston's Muslim leader bridges cultures

On a rainy afternoon in early April at Boston's largest mosque, the sheikh in the seersucker suit was in his office, offering comfort and advice.

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Sat May 11, 2013

Boston Police Dept

Police Investigate Person Stabbed in the Area of 2343 Washington Street. Roxbury

At about, 2:26 AM, Saturday, May 11, 2013, officers from district B-2 responded to a radio call for a person stabbed in the area of 2343 Washington St Roxbury.

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Thu May 09, 2013

Boston Herald

Young boy, struck, killed on Boston street

Authorities said the 12-year-old was struck outside a fire station while crossing Cambridge Street in the city's Allston neighborhood at about 6:50 a.m. Thursday.

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Psychology Today

What Would Socrates Do?

Recently, Orchard Gardens, a public K-8 school in Roxbury, MA, has been in the news.

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Boston Police Dept

Boston Police Investigate Stabbing Incident in the area of 530 Blue Hill Ave

At about 4:35pm, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, officers from District B-2 responded to a radio call for a person stabbed in the area of 530 Blue Hill Ave.

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Wed May 08, 2013

Boston Police Dept

Victims Identified in Connection to Double Fatal Shooting in the area of 416 Warren Street

At about 1:30pm, on Friday, May 3, 2013, officers from District B-2 responded to a call for a person or persons shot in the area of 416 Warren Street .

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Tue May 07, 2013

Lowell Sun

More education reform needed

Three years after passage of a major education reform bill, elected officials, school administrators and education advocates urged lawmakers Tuesday to pass additional changes to improve still-struggling schools with longer school days, more management flexibility and expanded access to charter schools.

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Sat May 04, 2013

Boston Herald

Boston man's life righted by Shakespeare

The gun felt good in Antonio Stroud's hands. He looked at the small, black object and knew he was prepared to use it, if necessary.

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Daily Kos

This week in the War on Workers: Art teachers, not security guards, turn troubled school around

This is a country in which the drive to make standardized testing more important and to assess teachers on the basis of those tests, no matter how flawed they are, is so strong that New York tried to make a boy take a standardized test while he was in the hospital getting ready for brain surgery and Florida law is requiring a boy born with only a ... (more)

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Fri May 03, 2013

Boston Police Dept

Police Investigate Death Investigation in the Area of 41 Prentiss Street

At about, 12:43 AM, Friday, May 03, 2013, officers from district B-2 responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area of 41 Prentiss Street, Roxbury.

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Lite 98.7

Principal Got Rid of Security Guards and Then Something Unbelievable Happened

Bott was the sixth principal in seven years when he took the job at Orchard Gardens, a failing K-8 school in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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Patch.com

SEC Freezes Assets of Palladino, Viking Financial Group

A U.S. Federal District Court has frozen the assets of Steven Palladino and his company, Viking Financial Group, in the latest ripple in an alleged multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme operated out of West Roxbury.

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Thu May 02, 2013

Boston.com

Hamilton Co. buying 134-unit apartment building in Boston's South End

The company will purchase the property for $52 million from Boston Land Development.

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Wed May 01, 2013

Boston Police Dept

Police Investigate Death Investigation in the Area of 75 Wayland Street

At about, 7:52 PM, Sunday, April 28, 2013, officers from district B-2 responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area of 75 Wayland Street.

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Patch.com

Arrests for Drugs, Shoplifting, Home Invasion

The following is a selective list of entries from the Medford Police log from Monday, April 22 through Thursday, April 25, 2013 and any arrests recorded during that time.

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Mon Apr 29, 2013

Boston.com

Two men shot tonight on Beech Glen Street in Roxbury

One man suffered a life-threatening injury and a second a minor wound in a shooting in Roxbury's Highland Park section tonight, Boston police said.

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