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Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced today that nominations are now open for the 2012 Green Awards, which recognize local sustainability and environmental awareness leaders in four different categories Green Business, Green Residential, Sustainable Food Leadership and Bike Friendly Businesses .

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a caucus, Saturday, Feb.

Defendants Dwayne Moore, 34, and Edward Washington, above, have pleaded not guilty in the fatal shootings of four people and the wounding of another in Mattapan in 2010 in a crime that outraged and shocked the community.

Alleged Union Park Stabber Arraigned: Soren Capawanna entered a not guilty plea and is due back in court April 6. The alleged victim remains at Boston Medical Center.

NorthEndWaterfront.com ponders the news that residents of Harbor Towers and Rowes Wharf are trying to carve out a new identity as the Wharf District when they're already covered by the North End/Waterfront Neighborhood Council.

Amid freezing temperatures and high winds, dozens of Boston firefighters are battling a four-alarm blaze this morning that engulfed a one-story strip of businesses on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton shortly before 6 a.m. One firefighter suffered non-life threatening injuries to his eye and shoulder, but no other injuries were reported.

The police blotter from last Friday, Feb. 3, included the arrest of two Bickford Street women for allegedly assaulting a police officer.

A local actor who is making it big in Hollywood came home to Boston recently. Julia Jones, who grew up in JP, was in the city to promote a DVD of "The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn, Part I." She made the press rounds, telling the Globe she hopes to stay in movies , though she has enjoyed her television roles, such as Dr.

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Peoples Federal Savings Bank has no grounds to immediately bar the Connecticut-based People's United Bank from opening branches in the Boston area under that name.

Would-be farmers John Stoddard and Courtney Bissonnette are in negotiations to plant the farm atop buildings in the South End's Newmarket Square area or Charlestown.

Fifty years after a groundbreaking competition, two architects look back at the project that polarized the city - and gave it a new lease on life An architectural rendering of Boston City Hall, which was the subject of an unusual design competition in the early 1960s.

Police arrested a Beverly woman Friday night after she allegedly tried to give a bartender counterfeit bills at the Glass Slipper, a strip club in Chinatown.

"I wouldn't call it a publicity stunt. All we're trying to do is get across to the public that we need to think about how we generate revenues for the park," said Sylvia Salas, the Esplanade Association's executive director.

Ten dollars is a very low price to get a male cat fixed and vaccinated. This program is only available to low-income families throughout the month of February.

Julie Walsh and Marie Eddy prepared meals served at the Farnsworth House in Jamaica Plain, where John Malia ate lunch last week.

An alleged Boston gang member was acquitted of first-degree murder charges by a Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday.

Press release from the New England Historic Geneological Society On February 8, the New England Historic Genealogical Society , located at 99-101 Newbury Street, held a day-long African American History and Genealogy Open House.

Shortly after a man was stabbed Thursday around 4:30 p.m. at 138 Tremont St., police saw the suspect walking in another part of town and arrested him and the person he was with.

BEST IN SHOW AND FIRST PLACE SPOT NEWS: Seven teenagers were arraigned in Quincy District Court for the weekend murder of 19-year-old Kyle McManus.

Tired of circling the block in his car every night for untold amounts of time, Anthony Bonanno and his wife, Tillie, packed up their belongings and their young son, Anthony G., some 50 years ago and fled the North End for the expansive and empty confines of Ward 6's Lantern Road.