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Allegations of sexual abuse at the Arlington Boys & Girls Club from the 1970s to 1990s continue to escalate as police said they have identified five more victims and arrested a former employee of the club Friday in New York.

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 ...

Mayor Thomas M. Menino outlined a five-year, .8 billion capital plan Friday aimed at improving educational opportunities across Boston, enhancing public facilities, and increasing accessibility for people with disabilities ...

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

The MBTA says riders will soon be able to receive faster, more reliable, and more informative alerts, via text and e-mail, about sudden service delays and disruptions and planned changes.

A Suffolk grand jury handed up a 53-count bribery indictment of five Massachusetts Port Authority employees who allegedly accepted bribes from cab drivers in exchange for better spaces in line at the Logan International Airport taxi queue, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The YMCA of Greater Boston is encouraging teens to get active this summer, offering free memberships at all 13 branches around the city, it announced Wednesday.

Unused or expired medication can be disposed of at newly-installed kiosks in each of the 11 district police stations in Boston, city health officials said in a recent announcement.

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 ...

Calculate your ideal Massachusetts community using our Dreamtown Finder ...

Calculate your ideal Massachusetts community using our Dreamtown Finder ...

A tool to help you find the ideal Massachusetts communities for your needs ...

By Edward Donga BU News Service On Nov. 16, 2009, Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, 37, died of heart failure in Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina Prison, after eight guards alledgedly beat him with rubber batons for more than an hour ...

View highlights from live election night special broadcast, Decision 2012.

On a day that’s normally joyous as runners cross the Boston Marathon finish line, BU News Service switched from chronicling triumph to reporting a tragedy.