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Two get 25 to 30 years for helping to gun down a man their pal was arguing with on Geneva Avenue Two men who pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday for the 2023 death of Curtis Effee at 417 Geneva Ave. near Westville Street in Dorchester on Dec. 30, 2023 were sentenced today to 25 to 30 years in state prison, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Irish bar downtown closes for today, so Englishmen will just have to find someplace else to celebrate/drown their sorrows
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Boston brokers pilot that will let hackney cab drivers accept Uber/Lyft calls Mayor Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox today announced a one-year pilot that will let city-licensed cab drivers respond to ride requests via Uber and Lyft - except to Logan. Read more.

Court tosses rent-control ballot question because it has a religious component The Supreme Judicial Court today dismissed a referendum proposed for the November election for rent control because it would have specifically called to exclude units in buildings owned by religious institutions for religious purposes, such as homes for retired priests and nuns. Read more.

Man shot to death on Selden Street in Dorchester Boston Police report a man was shot at 6 Selden St. in Dorchester around 7:35 p.m. Read more.

Man ordered held without bail on charges he tried to murder somebody on desolate stretch of Hyde Park Avenue A man was arraigned today on charges of attempted murder and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for a gun barrage that sent another man to the hospital around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday at 1636 Hyde Park Ave. - the home of the My Grandma's of New England coffee-cake factory in Hyde...

Voters could get to decide whether Massachusetts replaces party primaries with California-style "jungle" primaries, court rules The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today there's nothing constitutionally wrong with a ballot question this fall that would end our current party primaries with all-against-all September primaries in which the top two vote getters, regardless of party, would move onto the final November elections. Rea...

Man shot in the abdomen on Quincy Street in Dorchester A man was shot at 455 Quincy St. in Dorchester around 10:40 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

Hyde Park man charged with murder for hitting, killing woman in Mattapan in car he'd just carjacked, police say Boston Police report charging Ibraim Matos, 37, of Hyde Park with murder for the death of a woman walking on the sidewalk on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square not long after he allegedly crashed his own car and then carjacked another. Read more.

311 complaint of the day: Too many bullfrogs at Brighton pond A fed-up resident files a 311 ribbet about all the bullfrogs at Chandler Pond in Brighton. Read more.