A federal judge last week sentenced Royal Benjamin, 64, to five years in prison for robbing a phone store at gunpoint in ...

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by serial North End restaurant owner Frank DePasquale to add a second floor to the vacant strip of storefronts on Cross Street between Hanover and Salem ...

Inside Higher Education reports the university is blaming the recent strike by existing graduate students for making its programs too expensive to run. [T]he programs not accepting Ph.D. students for ...

Chronicle reports a man was arrested over the weekend on charges he set a series of brush fires in the city - and that he is a s suspect in a fire set not long before his arrest. Read more.

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UMass Amherst is telling foreign students and faculty they probably want to be back on campus before the change of administration in Washington - and will provide housing for any undergraduate ...

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Brian Joyce, 30, of Dorchester on a charge of first-degree murder for gunning down Marcus Dunn-Gordon, 27, of Randolph in the parking lot of Boston Bowl, ...

A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about this relic of the time before everybody had their own personal communications device: Read more.