“Absent record evidence suggesting otherwise, the police, and by the extension the prosecution, acquired a duty of preservation once the material was obtained by the hospital. The record is devoid of evidence that the Boston Police Department met that duty,” the judge wrote.

DA Rachael Rollins moves to release Tyrone Clark from prison.

A decade ago, a grand jury declined to charge a white police officer with a crime in the killing of the young Black man.

The court's decision to hold a new trial allows the district attorney to drop a gun charge against Ellis.

Ellis' 1995 conviction in the murder of Boston Police Detective John Mulligan was overturned in 2015, but a gun possession conviction remains.

Executive branch agencies spent more than 6% of their 2020 budgets with minority-owned firms for the first time since 2015 — but still short of governor's 8% goal.

Long-time residents say they are being priced out of the neighborhood because of commuter rail stations they fought to build.

New marker to the enslaved and Rhode Island name change raise hopes for those seeking to rename Faneuil Hall

With immigrant communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, the debate about whether to allow unauthorized immigrants in the state to get driver’s licenses is heating up.

The proposals respond directly to concerns raised in a GBH News investigative series showing minority contracts have decreased.