The informer had described an apartment filled with drugs and guns at the building, which is on a drug-scarred street in the city's Dorchester section.

As a judge, he began in the Municipal Court in the Dorchester section of Boston in 1936.

None of that was news to Mary Caulfield, a 58-year-old retired resident of the Dorchester section of Boston.

Two days earlier Michael Veney, 16, was shot in the neck as he stood on a street corner in the Dorchester section.

In July, he raced into a single-family home in the Dorchester section and brought a man with an artificial leg to safety.

Francis X. Shea was born in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1926.

In the Dorchester section of this city, 10 teen-agers painted a mural that depicts what happened to Rodney G. King.

"We don't know how he is going to be theologically," said Professor Bane, a Catholic who lives in the Dorchester section of Boston.

"I was lost," recalls Maria, an immigrant from Cape Verde who lives in Boston's Dorchester section.

Mr. Taylor oversaw its move from its original building downtown to new quarters in the Dorchester section.