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MATTAPAN (CBS) — A man was shot and killed outside a Mattapan barber shop where his four-year-old son was getting a haircut. It happened shortly after noon outside Hair It Is on Blue Hill Ave. Relatives identify the victim as 31-year-old Marcus Hall. They say he was killed while bringing his four year old son for a haircut.

OK, Jimmy Carter, thanks for getting this Mattapan moonbat of ours out of North Korea. After 30 years, you finally freed a hostage. And a double thank-you for immediately screwing out of town. You saved me from having to lecture you: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. For once, I didn’t have to ask a has-been pol the eternal question: How can we miss you when you won’t go away? I’m sorry, but these occasional “humanitarian” missions of yours don’t make up for a lifetime of squalid embraces of the world’s worst tinpot dictators. And...

... One year ago, a new library designed by world-class architect William Rawn opened on Mattapan’s Blue Hill Avenue, a street rarely associated with first-class anything. [...] But the highlight of the new library was its young adult room. [...] In reality, some of the young people are throwing punches, hurling insults, and tossing furniture in the space that Rawn designed as an “oasis of safety.’’ It doesn’t happen often, but often enough to draw negative publicity and discourage some adults from patronizing the library. The good kids who easily outnumber the thugs know what comes next. “People will say...

(Boston - AP) - One of Boston's largest churches is expanding into the suburbs. The seven-thousand strong Jubilee Christian Church in Mattapan is spending three million dollars to buy a closed Catholic church in Stoughton. Jubilee founder Gilbert Thompson says the new church will serve about two-thousand congregants who live in the Brockton and Stoughton areas. He says Jubilee will purchase the old Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic church, update the sound system, replace the pews with chairs to accommodate more people, and call it Jubilee South. The new church is scheduled to open in the fall. Our Lady...