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A Boston convenience store owner was busted with drugs, including fentanyl and crack, at the West Roxbury shop Friday afternoon, police said. A Boston police drug unit searched Isaac Rosa and his store, Familia Grocery; vehicle; and home Friday afternoon and uncovered 11 bags of powder cocaine, 17 bags of crack cocaine, seven bags of fentanyl, pounds of marijuana and…

Christmas came early for a 9-year-old boy with autism, who received a new bike after his was stolen.

A resolution passed by the Boston City Council on Wednesday opposed relocating the O’Bryant School of Math and Science to the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston after a hearing. The hearing, which lasted multiple hours, had parents, teachers and alumni of the school voicing their opposition to the move, according to the Boston Globe. Nine councilors voted against the...

Centre Street in West Roxbury is now at the center of a debate on public safety. Everyone agrees change needs to happen in order to make the street safer, but the city’s plan to reduce lanes is dividing the community.   According to the city of Boston, roughly 15,000 people a day drive on Centre Street and most of them...

Two teenagers were hurt in a fireworks accident in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood Wednesday. Police confirmed they were called to Margaretta Drive around 6 p.m. There they found a 13-year-old boy with what they called a partial right hand amputation, and a 15-year-old girl with wrist burns. The injuries are not life-threatening, according to police. The teens were taken...

Tevez Schale will graduate before construction is expected to begin on the relocation of the John D. O’Bryant School to the vacant West Roxbury High School campus, but he can’t help but think of the impact it could have for his younger classmates. “Most of our kids are like, people of color, and West Roxbury, that’s really far from...

An outbreak of salmonella has been linked to a location of a popular taco chain restaurant in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood, health officials said Friday. Los Amigos Taqueria was closed and had its health permit suspended, according to the Boston Public Health Commission, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Boston Inspectional Services Department, which said in a statement they were...

This $100,000 windfall is one of the many reasons it pays to keep up with the news. A winning lottery ticket was gathering dust for a year in the back of a drawer at John Butler’s house in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood. He didn’t realize it was there until under two weeks before it was set to expire. With...

A car was stolen at gunpoint in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood on Sunday evening after the car’s owner had stopped at a station to get gas, police said. The driver was refilling their gas tank at Speedway Gas Station at Washington Street when a person approached the driver with a gun and took their car, according to police. The...