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A 24 year-old Dorchester man will be charged with manslaughter for causing the death of a 44 year-old Quincy man during ... Read more.

A man was fatally shot in a residential area of Mattapan mid-afternoon Friday, police said.

Officers responded to a call for shots fired in the area of 17 Doone Ave. just before 3:30 p.m. They found a man in his ... Read more.

Toddler found in Mattapan

WCVB reports police on Sunday identified the parents of a toddler found alone in a Mattapan playground Saturday evening but that ... Read more.

More than three months after the House passed legislation regulating ride-for-hire companies like Uber and Lyft, Senate leaders on Thursday will release a new version of the bill that abandons restrictions on operation at ... Read more.

Community members this week echoed their elected officials’ concerns about a possible siting of a soccer stadium on Columbia Point this week.

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Carney Hospital paired up with the Vietnamese Health Collaborative Saturday to bring a Health, Wellness, and Job Fair to the people of Dorchester.

The event, which was held in the main lobby of the Carney Hospital ... Read more.

Ever been asked to comment on an artwork, and all you gave back is a whole lot of not much? “Whatever” or “I dunno” is about all you can muster.

If the artwork in question happens to be in the current show at the ... Read more.

Two dozen community members, health advocates, and community service police officers laid out their public safety concerns and struggles from the Black Box theater in the Codman Square Health Center on Monday evening. ... Read more.

As Boston officials seek to lower speed limits on their streets, one lawmaker cautioned Tuesday that the problem they are seeking to remedy could be a symptom of a broader “crisis” in transportation infrastructure. ... Read more.

The Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition celebrated its 10th anniversary on June 11 at the Boston Nature Center, where more than 60 neighborhood residents stopped by to gobble up fresh food and groove to an eclectic ... Read more.

Officials gathered Tuesday morning to celebrate the re-opening of Hemenway Playground, addressing community members and showing off the refurbished structures in the play area on Adams Street.

The park features an ... Read more.

The Boston Neighborhood Basketball League tips off its 48th season on July 5, when nearly 2,000 youngsters from every corner of the city will flock to local blacktops and compete in two games per week.

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Two men in their 20s have been charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Raekwon Brown in early June ... Read more.

University of Massachusetts officials have had preliminary conversations with the Kraft family and the New England Revolution about the possibility of building a soccer stadium on prime waterfront land owned by the ... Read more.

Lynne Mooney Teta on Tuesday announced her resignation as headmaster of Boston Latin School, the prestigious exam school that has spent the past six months under a magnifying glass over racial issues.

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Seeking to help the often low-wage workers who rely on check cashing businesses to collect their pay, the Senate last Thursday passed a bill to limit how much check-cashers can take as their cut. The bill (S 2323) limits ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a man in his 30s was fatally shot around 11:10 p.m. on Saturday at 62 Astoria St.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

A second person was also shot, but was ... Read more.

Gun violence cast a pall over the Codman Square Health Center community yesterday, as it gathered for the center’s annual meeting. Attorney General Maura Healey and state Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou ... Read more.

A former Dorchester resident wanted by the FBI and on the run for 23 years has been captured in North Carolina. The FBI says that John Joseph Hartin, 46, allegedly abused two young boys in Hyde Park back in 1993, but fled ... Read more.

Just over half of the Boston Public Schools Class of 2009 have now completed college, just shy of the 52 percent goal that late-Mayor Menino set in 2009 when he launched an initiative aimed at improving college ... Read more.

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