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• The Boston Celtics' rebuild is over

  

  There may be a few moves here and there in the next few weeks, but the clock starts now. After a masterful rebuild by Danny Ainge, the championship window is ...

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• 6-year-old girl falls from window in Dorchester

  

  A 6-year-old girl was taken to Boston Medical Center for evaluation after she fell from a third-floor window in Dorchester early Friday morning, according to Boston police.Officers answered a 911 call arrived at 20 Magnolia St. about 2 a.m. to find the child on the building’s front steps, where she was being comforted by the woman who made the call, Officer Rachel McGuire, a Boston police spokeswoman, said in an e-mail. Advertisement The girl was conscious and alert, and she told police she..

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• Despite drop in crime, some neighborhoods still feel besieged

  

  In the South End, 52-year-old John Chambers is as comfortable walking through Villa Victoria, a housing project once plagued by gang violence, as he is at Flour, a neighborhood bakery serving brioche au chocolat and croissants.On a spring morning near Jamaica Pond, where certain streets were once forbidding, 41-year-old realtor Holly Edes strolled with Zoe, an ornery terrier mix rescue dog whose temper seemed to be the only threat to passing joggers and bikers. Advertisement Crime in Boston ..

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• Here, there, and everywhere

  

  here PIRATE TREASURES AND TALES IN PORTLAND Visit the Portland Science Center and find out what happened to the infamous Whydah, a pirate ship that sank off Cape Cod 300 years ago, filled with treasure from more than 50 captured ships. “Real Pirates: An Exhibition from National Geographic” runs until this fall (no end date yet), and showcases more than 200 artifacts from the 18th century pirate ship, which was located by underwater explorer Barry Clifford in 1984. See treasure chest..

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• A bounty of the sea at Local 02045

  

  In the kitchen Chef Bridget Nee lords over the kitchen at the new Local 02045 in Hull, bringing experience from stints at Legal Sea Foods and most recently at the Marshfield Mama Mia’s, saying “I fell in love with the team at Local” and its oceanfront location. Nee said she grew up cooking, but left for awhile to work in law enforcement in the court system. Now she’s back in the culinary game, creating a menu heavy on seafood locally sourced from places like Lobster Express in Hull, as well as..

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• 14-year-old injured during fatal double shooting in Boston

  

  Boston Police are investigating a double shooting in Roxbury that left one man dead and a 14-year-old male injured. The shooting occurred in the area of Blue Hill Avenue and Cheney Street around 6:45 p.m. Thursday night, according to a Boston Police Department press release. A group of officers near Grove Hall sprinted towards the scene and discovered two male victims suffering from gunshot wounds. The 14-year-old male was transported to Boston Children's Hospital with non-life threatening inju..

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• Two men nabbed in Ohio for separate murders in Boston

  

  Boston police said two men wanted for separate murders in the city were arrested by Ohio law enforcement officials on Wednesday. Greg Wright, 21, and Danilo Depina, 31, were found and arrested Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, by the Southern Ohio Fugitive Strike Force, Boston police said in a statement. Advertisement The two were located following an investigation by the Boston Police Department Fugitive Unit and the US Marshals.Wright had been on the run since the May 27 murder of Kevin Reyes o..

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• Mass. Pike lane reductions begin Friday ahead of bridge rebuild

  

  With July Fourth travel come and gone, Boston-area commuters can now expect summer traffic to return to normal — right?Not so fast. Advertisement Beginning Friday, the Massachusetts Turnpike will narrow to three lanes through Boston, marking the start of the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge repair project. It’s the first step in a descent into a regional traffic abyss that will last more than seven weeks.The anxiously anticipated project will begin when highway officials close one westbound lane o..

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• Want To Star In A 'Back To The Future' Remake? Crowdsourced ...

  

  Have you ever dreamed of remaking a big-budget Hollywood hit film … but with no money? That’s the premise behind Crowdsourced Boston’s community effort to remake the 1985 film “Back to the Future” this summer.“Imagine filming a no-budget film that requires a DeLorean, a clock tower, a skateboarding teenager and a mad scientist,” organizers write. “With 40+ directors, producers, actors and editors each directing their own scene.”Over the past couple years, Brookline Interactive Group, that town’s..

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• Alyssa Banker

  

  Alyssa Banker first bought a camera less than a year ago just to take pictures during her upcoming honeymoon. Since then, the 29-year-old South Florida native has become immersed in the Boston Instagram community, showcasing her admiration for the people and scenes of her Beacon Hill neighborhood. It turns out that a newfound love of photography is not the only big change in her life: Banker is in the midst of adopting her husband’s last name, Hiller, a shift she has already made with..

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