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The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for a man convicted of gunning down Marcus Hall behind a Blue Hill Avenue barbershop, where Hall had brought his four-year-old son for a haircut on June 14, 2016.

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Regulators at the Massachusetts Gaming Commission are taking an interest in whether people younger than the legal betting age of 21 are using mobile platforms to bet on sports and what the betting platforms operating here ... Read more.

There were no apparent injuries, but Boston Police found six shell casings on the sidewalk, one bullet that hit the Rockland Trust bank, and another that hit an apartment across the street on Sunday at noon during what ... Read more.

Six community members and organizations were honored at the annual Codman Square and Four Corners ‘Hidden Heroes and Sheroes’ gala on Nov. 17 in the Great Hall, with five teens from the neighborhood receiving $2,000 ... Read more.

Don Alexis was first attracted to Mattapan and Blue Hill Avenue when he was 18 and visiting family shortly after immigrating from Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. The diaspora culture and the history of the neighborhood gave him the ... Read more.

With its purchase last month of a large tract of commercial property on New England Avenue west of Codman Square for a potential infrastructure site, Eversource continued on its mission of convening neighbors in ... Read more.

President Joseph Biden's coming back to Massachusetts next Tuesday for a concert fundraiser featuring singer-songwriter James Taylor, the state Democratic Party said Tuesday.

The Dec. 5 shindig in Boston, titled " ... Read more.

Something is wrong here. Studies by the Hechinger Report and New America, think tanks that study education, indicate that over the last decade hundreds of selective public and private colleges have shifted their financial ... Read more.

Early last summer, 50-year-old Mattapan native Pierre Auguste felt a persistent pain radiating from his abdomen. He and his wife Ruth anticipated possible gallstones and began preparing for ambulatory surgery. Instead, ... Read more.

The Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council (GMNC) held its first annual Gratitude Dinner on the outdoor patio of Blue Hill Avenue’s Café Juice Up under a massive tent on Fri., Nov. 17. The event was put together to thank ... Read more.

The only thing that pairs better than Thanksgiving and football is Christmas and ballet. Beginning on Sat., Dec. 9 and running to Christmas Eve, Dorchester residents will be invited to the Strand Theatre to get in the ... Read more.

More tree lightings are planned for next weekend as Mayor Wu’s Enchanted Trolley Tour makes stops around the city, including Mattapan Square on Sat., Dec. 2 at 1 p.m.; Codman Square on Sun., Dec. 3 at 12 p.m., followed by ... Read more.

The Dorchester Holiday Celebration Committee and Mayor Michelle Wu ushered in the Christmas season with a barrage of nine holiday tree lightings throughout the neighborhood last Saturday (Nov. 25) from Port Norfolk to ... Read more.

When B-3 police officer Daniel Oliveira arrived at a home on Ellington Street around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, the scene couldn’t have been more intense. A two-year-old boy was lying unresponsive on the bed, having been found ... Read more.

Three additional public meetings planned over coming months

A commission charged with coordinating state and city resources to plan critical improvements to Morrissey Boulevard and related ... Read more.

A commission charged with coordinating state and city resources to plan critical improvements to Morrissey Boulevard and related infrastructure will convene for its first meeting this evening, more than one year after a ... Read more.

Two views of the fire

Boston firefighters responded to Ellington Street for what turned into a six-alarm fire at 19 and 21 Ellington Saturday afternoon.

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Somewhere between the migration to the suburbs in the 20th century and the tight housing market of the ongoing “Big Sort,” there was a turning point called “the Big Downzone.”

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The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) last Thursday (Nov. 16) overturned a man’s first-degree murder conviction in the shooting death of Dantley Leonard on Nov. 12, 2016, while Leonard was helping a friend’s girlfriend move ... Read more.

Friends and family from across the city gathered in Roxbury last Saturday to memorialize Terrence Clarke, the basketball phenom and Dorchester native who died in 2021 at age 19 in a car accident in Los Angeles, where he ... Read more.

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