East Boston

Drivers can expect detours and parking restrictions across the city this weekend as thousands of runners take to the streets to finish the last mile of the Boston Marathon, and pay tribute to law enforcement officials killed in the line of duty.

For the first time in more than a decade, a new company will operate the MBTA

Retired police officer Robert Cappucci said Wednesday he has gathered more than 4,000 signatures to support his bid for mayor of Boston, making him the 16th potential candidate ...

Milford Town Meeting voters declined to take a vote on a nonbinding citizens petition to express opposition to the siting of a casino on 200 acres of land along Interstate 495.

City Councilor Sal LaMattina stands in for Mayor Thomas Menino during the Mayor's annual coffee hour at the Lamson Street Playground in Jeffries Point ...

After City Councilor Sal LaMattina pushed through an ordinance to regulate how satellite dishes are installed in neighborhoods like East Boston, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) blocked the measure last year ...

The East Boston Savings Bank has made a $25 million loan to Boston Community Capital (BCC) that could potentially help 1 in 5 homeowners with troubled mortgages nationwide ...

It was a murder that shocked the neighborhood but when the truth behind Marco Tulio Flores' bizarre act of torturing and killing a family friend surfaced many in the neighborhood said they would have probably done the same ...

Memorial Day usually is the unofficial start of the all too brief summer in New England ...

Patriots owner Robert Kraft is cautiously optimistic that the infection in Rob Gronkowski's left forearm has finally cleared and that Monday's surgery (his fourth) will be the last on the big tight end's arm.

Robert Kraft is used to rooting against John Mara in February.

Several Memorial Day observances and services are scheduled in the coming days at public parks and cemeteries throughout Boston.

The first portion of the subway line that would become the MBTA opened more than 115 years ago, and by the standards of that time, it's doing pretty well ...

(Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff) Mayor Thomas M. Menino today at the proposed site of a handicapped friendly park near Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown ...

Marco Tulio Flores, now 19, today pleaded guilty to strangling Jaime Galdamez with a dog chain and then setting his body on fire after years of sexual abuse, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports ...

Dozens gathered under dazzling sunlight at Sumner Lamson Park in East Bostons Jeffries Point section for Mayor Thomas M ...

Five Logan Airport "cab starters" arrested in February were indicted yesterday by a Suffolk County grand jury for allegedly taking bribes from cabbies to move them up in the queue at the airport ...

At Suffolk Business School's "Build Boston" forum about casinos last Thursday morning, Stephen Crosby, chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, shared a brief, private chat with No Eastie Casino co-chair Celeste Ribeiro Myers ...

If you were to move to any Massachusetts community, where should you go? We analyzed and ranked each towns crime rateincluding violent and property crime,the number of public transit options, the number of historical sites per resident, the percentage of acres that are open space, and the number of grocery stores ...

Here's a slideshow of the 10 towns with the cheapest home values in Massachusetts ...

How fun is your town? We ranked the top 10 most fun communities in Massachusetts by analyzing the number of restaurants, theaters, and museums, using Tripadvisor and other online sources, per population data provided by the US Census ...

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