South Boston News

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.

Voters lined up at the Hemenway School in Hyde Park before polls opened at 7 a.m. South End: Reluctance to change Ben Venido Benson shrugged his shoulders and laughed when asked today why he voted again for four-term incumbent Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

Boston police are looking for the culprits in three unarmed robberies that have been reported in the city's South Boston neighborhood in the past two weeks.

Boston police today released a photograph of a man who matches the description of an assailant accused of mugging three women in South Boston in the last two weeks.

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.

The showdown between Mayor Thomas M. Menino and City Councilor at Large Michael Flaherty Jr.

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.

Last week, Steve Pagliuca, the 400 Million Dollar Man, was greeting ordinary folk on East Broadway in South Boston.

A Hunking School custodian told police sometime over the weekend an unknown party used a blue paint marker to write on the school's exterior wall, police said.

It's a warm, sparkling mid-October afternoon in Grove Hall, in the heart of Roxbury, and Michael F. Flaherty Jr.

Cameron Diaz and her on-screen sister played by Maggie Grace, known for her work as the poor little rich girl Shannon Rutherford on ABC's "Lost" series, filmed a wedding reception scene for the spy-comedy "Knight & Day" inside of of the Jacob Wirth Restaurant located at 31 Stuart St.

The principal job of the Army is to protect the United States from foreign and domestic enemies, but a local soldier added catching a suspected bank robber to his mission this week.

Boston Police report a woman walking near Dorchester and Ward streets was mugged around noon yesterday by three teens who took her cell phone and then ran toward the McCormack project.

A South Boston house was heavily damaged Thursday afternoon after a fire broke out in the kitchen, according to South Boston fire officials.

Police captured a South Boston man at the downtown train station an hour after they said he held up the Bank of New England on Emerson Street yesterday afternoon.

Robert Mitchum's grizzled and vulnerable performance as a down-on-his luck Quincy gunrunner makes The Friends of Eddie Coyle one movie that every Bostonian ought to see.

Note: On Mondays, one of our various Market Scene correspondents checks in with what's fresh at farmstands, what's coming up, and what you better get while the gettin's good.

"Wall Street is mocking us," Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a Washington consumer group, told the Herald.

The 6 House around 7:30 p.m. yesterday. At least there weren't any news trucks near it.

Fans of Bostona s highest-profile crime writer, Dorchester native Dennis Lehane, are awaiting the launch of his latest work, a celebration that will culminate the upcoming Boston Book Festival on Saturday, Oct.