LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) -- A Lawrence man accused of shaking his 2-month-old son and dropping the baby on the floor has been ordered held on $100,000 bail. Anibal Cordero pleaded not guilty to a...

EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) -- Authorities have identified the woman found dead in her Easthampton apartment over the holiday weekend, but are still not calling her death a homicide. The district...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- The murder trial of Fitchburg man accused of killing a woman nearly four decades ago has started. A chemist and DNA analyst told a jury in Worcester Superior Court on...

MILTON, Mass. (WHDH) -- Police in Milton are searching for three suspects who may have been involved in an armed home invasion. Police say they received a call around 11 p.m. Tuesday and responded...

BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick has been picked to serve as a co-chairman of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign. Obama campaign officials say the co-chairs will serve as...

BOSTON (AP) -- A former Boston-area woman's parents have defended their daughter's shooting of her brother in 1986, saying it was an accident. Amy Bishop's mother says in inquest...

Paul Panaikas, 38, was arrested and charged in connection with an incident on Feb. 2 at the Sportsway Cafe on West Main Street.Police said the victim, a female Wheaton College student, was at the bar...

Violent protests left at least five dead and others wounded Wednesday as demonstrations over Quran burning intensified in Afghanistan.Police killed four people and wounded 10 others during protests...

The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday that teenagers who host underage drinking parties but do not supply alcohol cannot be held civilly liable if one of their guests gets hurt.The Supreme...

Boston is poised to become one of the first cities in the nation to ban satellite dishes from marring neighborhoods, Newscenter 5 has learned.Next week the Boston City Council is expected to pass a...

A Lawrence man accused of shaking his 2-month-old son and dropping the baby on the floor has been ordered held on $100,000 bail.Anibal Cordero pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault and battery on...

Testimony continues Thursday from the prosecution's key witness in a 2010 quadruple slaying in Boston that claimed the lives of four people, including a...

Authorities say a Bristol woman is recovering from a serious head injury after being run over by her own car in her driveway.Police say 36-year-old Samantha Ceritello ran after her unoccupied vehicle...

The baseball season is fast approaching and a Pittsfield youth league finds itself needing to replace up to $1,000 worth of gear after thieves broke into its storage area and stole hats, belts and...

Boston metro north covers the North Shore, Merrimack Valley and Northwest Suburbs: Insignificant showers moved across northeast Massachusetts last night and are departing the coastline this morning....

As part of a 10-day mission to the U.S., a group of startup entrepreneurs from the European Union stopped at MIT, Harvard and HubSpot yesterday to get a feel for the innovation culture here. Today,...

Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli is dealing with some quiet phones. "This is the slowest it's been in my time here," Chiarelli...

T he city wants to let the massive Seaport Square project proceed without the developer fulfilling a 6-year-old promise for a waterfront park next to the Children’s Museum. The Boston...

B OSTON -- Officials at the New England Conservatory say they will not rehire renowned conductor Benjamin Zander - who was fired last month for hiring a convicted sex offender to video record a youth...

"I wouldn't be here if I didn't think I could do well," the former Pennsylvania senator told supporters Tuesday after arriving ahead of any of his rivals for pre-debate...

For every presidential candidate, there's now at least one $1 million donor. Millionaire and billionaire executives have unlocked their personal bank vaults to write seven-figure checks to...

WASHINGTON- A surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Barack Obama eight months before...

Business Journal photo by W. Marc Bernsau Boston Business Journal publisher Christopher McIntosh welcomes local top executives to the first annual Presidents Day Celebration of Service at Cradles to...

No. 20. The Range Rover Sport jumped in Massachusetts sales, last year. Land Rover dealers sold 591 of the luxury SUV in the Bay State, up from 374 the previous year. Starting price (MSRP):...

The MBTA's Ride program -- a network of transportation services that gives rides to elderly and disabled residents -- is "ripe for fraud, waste and abuse," according to a new report...

National Grid is installing more than 30 new electric vehicle charging stations throughout the state under Coulomb Technologies' "Charge America" program, the Lowell Sun reports. ...

SouthCoast lawmakers are trying a different tactic to jump start a stalled development in Freetownby pushing legislation to allow the medical software company Meditech to expand on historical Native...

As spring approaches, several well-known retail properties will be hosting new enterprises in Newburyport, according to the Daily News. The biggest likely change, though, will be the closing of...

Bank of America Corp. and People's United Bank said they plan to close five Massachusetts branches as part of efforts to streamline their operations, the Boston Globe reports. The closings come...

Jeff Kinney , author of the celebrated "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," has bought the historic, run-down Falk's Market in Plainville, the Sun Chronicle reports. Kinney confirmed to the Sun...

Researchers at Boston University's Photonics Center have been tapped by Intune Networks, an early-stage business in Ireland, to be a testbed for the company's new technology, Mass High Tech...

08:10 AM ET 02.22 | For his part, Pau Gasol appreciated his teammates going to bat for him over the past few days. [Gasol] did hear directly from Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak on Monday,...

08:10 AM ET 02.22 | The Hawks took the occasion of back-to-back national broadcast to submit a pair of clunkers. Before both games, coach Larry Drew said, in effect, if his team couldn't get...

08:09 AM ET 02.22 | The Trail Blazers certainly stumbled into a good game for a bounce-back scoring effort, which they found when Gregg Popovich gave his best players the night off. [Popovich]...

08:08 AM ET 02.22 | Not long after it was reported that Portland was making a change at point guard, replacing Raymond Felton for Jamal Crawford, Felton said he was caught off guard. Felton spoke...

08:07 AM ET 02.22 | More than a little blame in the firing of Paul Westphal was placed at the feet of DeMarcus Cousins. Debate all you want about whether Cousins, who will first be eligible to sign a...

BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (WHDH) -- Students, staff, and the community came together for a march and rally on the campus of Bridgewater State University after a violent attack on a student. The victim...

Forecast discussion: The latest radar image shows a band of light showers moving through Boston down to the southern part of Rhode Island. However, the showers will be ending just after midnight, and...

Nguyen, Miller’s upstairs neighbor, was kept out of sight during the arraignment, a common procedure in cases where a suspect has been identified by an eyewitness. Nguyen has a history of...

P unching the clock during the Patrick administration has been a six-figure bonanza for thousands of lucky state workers, as salary figures released yesterday show the number of public employees...

T he arrest of a star Boston University hockey player arraigned yesterday on charges he raped a coed - the second sex crime charge lodged against a Terrier skater this season - has victim advocates...

A n informational meeting last night for members of the Boston Carmen’s Union turned ugly after some members argued over "problems" that were uncovered by an audit of union funds...