The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 378 Centre St. in Dorchester for what turned into a three-alarm fire that damaged two double three-deckers around 4:45 a.m. Read more.

WCVB reports a gay couple taunted while walking on River Street near Edgewater Drive in Mattapan came under attack by some men, one of them with a baseball bat, which he used on the back of the head ...

Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say flew out of the Prudential Center Canada Goose store with two parkas without paying for them. Read more.

The regime showed a certain kind of cunning last week, in putting Harvard on a financial watch list - which requires the school to pay for federal financial aid and then seek reimbursement from a ...

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 39 Baird St. in Mattapan shortly after 5 a.m. for  what turned into two-alarm fire. Read more.

State Rep. Mike Connolly (D-26th Middlesex) reported ICE set up near the East Somerville Community School before going on one of their balaclava hunting expeditions - swarmed by residents who began ...

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 522 East 5th St., near I Street, in South Boston, for a fire in a townhouse around 2:30 a.m. Read more.

Around 9 a.m., Patrick the roving UHub photographer captured Mayor Curley overseeing a BWSC crew dispatched this morning to Congress Street, where a water main popped its cork near North Street and ...

Boston firefighters responded to Eversource's  "Edison" building on South Street in Roslindale after a transformer in the rear of the building burst into flames shortly after 10 p.m. Read more.

A guard at the South Bay House of Correction was charged yesterday with raping a woman inmate  in July, two months after he had been hired, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read ...

WCVB reports the Teamsters and Republic, which provides trash service across the Boston area, reached a deal today to end an 11-week strike.

The family that has long owned Alco Auto Parts, 294 Hyde Park Ave. in Jamaica Plain, has teamed up with a Newton developer to replace the store with a six-story, 48-unit apartment in which most of the ...