Mattapan News

A two-alarm fire that broke out shortly before 7 p.m. did an estimated $400,000 damage to a single-family home at 83 Blake St., the Boston Fire Department reports.

They offered their best imitations of his gruff, sandpaper voice - one that never shied away from barking out opinions directly in the face of a boss or a prosecutor.

MassVOTE confirms one measure of the interest in this year's election in Boston: the highest turnout in a city election since 1993, when Thomas Menino won his first term as mayor.

Joel "Ninety" Clay, 25, got a 15-to-17-year prison term for running a crack-distribution operation out of a vacant Sturbridge Street apartment, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

Election spirit seemed strong across the city yesterday, less than 24 hours before polls opened citywide for some of the closest races in recent memory.

It's the Sunday before Election Day, and that means church visits are in order. Mayor Thomas Menino is in churches in Mattapan and the South End, while Team Floon is in Dorchester.

Confirming what we Tweeted yesterday , U.S. Sen. John Kerry's campaign folks have released his schedule for the weekend, with stops planned in West Roxbury and Mattapan.

Nine months after its revival, the Mattapan Branch Library is strikingly busy on a Thursday afternoon.

The City of Boston's new "Street Improvement Team" has plans to tackle Mattapan Square on Thursday, October 29 for a quick but intensive clean-up of local streets and outdoor equipment.

A woman was sexually assaulted early Saturday morning as she crossed through the Back Bay Fens on Agassiz Street.

A 38-year-old man was critically injured in a stabbing yesterday at Boston Medical Center, where an altercation broke out between two groups of people in a waiting room, authorities said.

A Somerville man was stabbed repeatedly outside of the CVS on JFK Street in Harvard Square early Saturday morning before taking a cab to the emergency room.

Citizens and community leaders - " and one business owner - " from the Mattapan neighborhood gathered for the fourth time on Monday night with one big purpose in mind: How best to write a proposal for a Mattapan Main Street District that will get City Hall's attention and approval? The Boston Main Streets organization was set up by Mayor Menino in ...

Domenic Hall, 25, will be arraigned today on charges he shot at a street worker on Hammond Street on the evening of Aug.

Today, Tuesday, October 20, 2009, at about 8:20am, members of the Boston Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit, US Marshalls and officers from Area B-3 located and apprehended the suspect wanted for the shooting of a local Streetworker.

The City of Boston's new "Street Improvement Team" has plans to tackle East Boston on Thursday, October 22 for a quick but intensive clean-up of local streets and outdoor equipment.

Police are investigating a shooting in Mattapan on Friday afternoon that left a man in his mid-20s dead.

The murder is the city's first this month and comes amid an overall slowdown in street crime, with this year's murder rate in its fourth year of decline.

A man was fatally shot in the face inside a home on Harvard Street in Mattapan this afternoon, police said.

Captain James Claiborne, who has led policing efforts in Dorchester and Mattapan since 2006, will leave his post as commander of the Area B-3 district later this month.