West Roxbury

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

DUNN, Rev. William Stephen In West Roxbury, May 20, 2013 ...

A New York man was arraigned today on charges of sexually abusing several boys while he was the swim coach at a Boys & Girls club in Arlington during the late 1970s ...

COLLINS, Mary E. Of West Roxbury, formerly of Brighton, May 17, 2012 ...

GOLDSTEIN, Leslie Age 65, a Juilliard-trained musician who taught hundreds of students in Howard County, Maryland for 30 years, passed away in Boston on May 9th ...

JOYCE, Walter T., Sr., Esq. Of West Roxbury, passed suddenly, May 16, 2013 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.