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Roxbury, Massachusetts is located in Suffolk County. Zip codes in Roxbury, MA include 02118, 02119, and 02120.

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A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Brian Lee, 45, guilty of first-degree murder for the 2006 death of his father, Edward Lee, in his Mattapan home, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

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Wednesday | Boston Herald

City posts tax scofflaw list

Joseph F. Perroncello, who owns a 15-room home in the Back Bay that is assessed at $5 million, owes the city $210,773 in property taxes, more than twice what he owed last year, according to a public notice posted yesterday by the Office of the Collector-Treasurer. Last year he made the Top 10 list of delinquent taxpayers for failing to pay taxes ...

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Mon Dec 07, 2009

Boston Herald

Endorsement of Salliesa spirit

Bill Bode, state commander of the Salvation Army, was waiting to greet him. "When I told him I was reporting for duty," he said, smiling, "that's when Christmas began for me." Murphy, who lives in Hingham and is a nationally prominent authority on animal welfare, has been a fan of the Sallies all of his life, beginning when he grew up in Roxbury at ...

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Sat Dec 05, 2009

Boston Herald

Cops: 2 hit by gunfire

The two were near the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Eustis Street when they were shot.

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Fri Dec 04, 2009

Universal Hub

Life without parole for killing a man because they felt like it

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Demetrius Wardsworth , 21, for the cold-blooded killing of a man sitting on a Roxbury stoop minding his own business, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

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Boston Globe

Roxbury shooting seriously injures 2 men

A double shooting in Roxbury yesterday left one man with injuries believed to be life-threatening and another in serious condition, police said.

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Thu Dec 03, 2009

Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA

Two Dorchester men charged with trying to murder Roxbury rival

Two Dorchester men were arraigned today on charges they tried to murder a member of a rival Cape Verdean faction on Albion Street in Roxbury last night.

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Tue Dec 01, 2009

Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA

What next for St. Fleur after decade in House?

State Rep. Marie St. Fleur is telling supporters that should Congressman Michael Capuano win his bid for the open U.S. Senate slot, she's "very interested" in mounting a campaign for his Eighth Congressional District seat, senior Democratic sources say.

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Sun Nov 29, 2009

Boston Globe

Man, city in tentative pact in civil rights suit

Laurence M. Adams hugged relatives after he was freed in 2004. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair in 1974.

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Fri Nov 27, 2009

MyFoxBoston

Man held without bail in shooting

A Boston man suspected of a fatal shooting in the city this summer has been ordered held without bail.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

BPDNews

Boston Police Arrest Suspects Wanted in Connection with Shooting Death at 2 Centre Street Terrace

At about 1:30pm, on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, members of the Boston Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit located and arrested shooting suspect, Sterling Fusi, 23, of Boston .

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Tue Nov 24, 2009

Boston Herald

Crosstown letdown

For the second time in a year, Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the city's $33.9 million bonds, giving a "negative" outlook for the hotel development.

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA

H1N1 flu clinic at Codman Square for 'high risk' patients

Codman Square Health Center will open its doors for a free H1N1 flu clinic today from 9am to 2pm for the following high risk groups identified by the Boston Public Health Commission : pregnant women; household contacts and caregivers for children younger than 6 months; healthcare and emergency medical services personnel; young people from 6 months ...

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

The Boston Globe

Roxbury woman testifies she found severed head in rain barrel

Brian Lee is representing himself in superior court. Ruth Collins said yesterday that she was so happy to see Brian Lee when he stopped by her Roxbury home for the first time in months that she invited him to return for dinner that night.

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Boston Globe

Boston unveils plan for ailing schools

Teachers and staff members gathered in the lobby for breakfast with the headmaster at English High School in September 2007.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Boston Globe

After rapid buildout, Suffolk University looks inward

University's loyalists want higher academic standing following rapid growth, big outlay in president's pay Tovah Poster, a second-year law student, studied in Suffolk's Moakley Law Library on Tremont Street.

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

Boston Herald

Paroled Blizzard of a 78 killer suspect in pistol-whipping

Gerald Hill, 47, is accused of pulling pantyhose over his face and robbing Boston Cab Dispatch Co.'s Kilmarnock Street office sometime before 9:50 a.m. yesterday along with an accomplice, according authorities.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Civic Boston

Chuck Turner's Last Hurrah? Not So Fast

That last hurrah for Chuck Turner might have to wait. Three days after the November 3 election, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reported that the District City Councilor from Roxbury as saying he would not run for another term.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Boston Globe

Police investigate Roxbury death

Boston police are investigating a possible homicide on Clifford Street in Roxbury this afternoon.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

Boston Globe

Parolee is arraigned on robbery charges

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.

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