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68 Blocks: Life, Death, Hope | Part 3

Time to celebrate and to worry

Tony Van Der Meer lives along Hendry Street, which has regressed after a few years of seemingly better days.

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On Hendry Street, a new sense of stability is unraveling. On Norton, a gang target plans a peace festival, which police fear will only draw trouble. Nothing is easy in Bowdoin-Geneva, but no one is giving in.

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The fall and rise of a small Dorchester street

For decades, Hendry Street was wracked by violence, poisoned by drugs, and destabilized by foreclosures. In 2008 the city took unprecedented steps to stop the cycle.

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A walk through Bowdoin-Geneva

For those who take the time to look, a neighborhood known for violence brims with character.

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68 Blocks: Life, Death, Hope

A five-part Globe series on Boston’s Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood.

State chemist faces 24 more charges in lab scandal

Annie Dookhan faced 24 new felony charges, including obstruction of justice, evidence-tampering, and perjury, in connection with the state drug lab scandal.

Guilty verdict in 4 Mattapan slayings

Dwayne Moore, accused of killing three adults and a 2-year-old boy on a Mattapan street in 2010, was found guilty on more than half the counts against him.

President Obama retools offer on revenues, taxes

Obama’s new offer raises revenues by $1.2 trillion over the next decade but keeps in place the Bush-era tax rates for any household with earnings below $400,000.

Connecticut school shootings

As investigators hunt for answers, rites begin in Newtown

Amid incalculable loss, this grieving town began the task of burying the young victims of Friday’s shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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Finding common ground on guns

In the wake of Newtown, a big question is whether gun owners can change — something that would require a different rhetoric, and a different culture.

A struggle with what to tell children about shootings

Parents are taking different paths as they try to figure out what to say about the horrific shootings in Newtown, Conn.

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A commuter gladly accepted an orange from a member of Samaritans at Back Bay station earlier this month.

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Samaritans help Boston put on a happy face

Best TV episodes of 2012

Left to right: Bernice Abbott’s “Newstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan.” (1935); Adam Davies’s “Marconi Station Road, Wellfleet, MA” (2009).

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Wit and wonders in ‘Collection Selections’ photo show

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Jessica Pratt’s self-titled album echoes an era past

Adam Lanza is accused of killing 26 people, including 20 children, at an elementary schoool in Connecticut before taking his own life.

Opinion | The Podium

Suicide by homicide: Taking mental illness seriously

President Obama greeted Governor Dannel Malloy of Connecticut at the start of an interfaith vigil for victims.

Shooting in Connecticut

Obama vows urgent try to stem violence

Tools help make smartphone videos smarter

Wendy Stone, a pilates instructor in Walpole, has been doing a juice cleanse once a month since August.

Health

Juice ‘cleansing’ is going mainstream

Frank Ocean performed during the “All Tomorrow's People” festival in Manhattan.

The best albums of 2012

Mary Beth Fisher and Jefferson Mays as Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell in “Dear Elizabeth” at Yale Repertory Theatre.

Stage Review

In ‘Dear Elizabeth,’ poets forge bond beyond words

Music

Harvard Square ready to rock with opening of Sinclair

Sports

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Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the Patriots are jockeying for position in the AFC playoff race.

Patriots’ chances slim of getting one of top AFC seeds

After Sunday’s loss, New England will likely be the third seed, behind Houston and Denver, with the fourth, fifth, and sixth seeds still up in the air.