As crunch time arrives, so too do the holes in donations, as the organization scrambles to provide the 74,000 toys that local parents have requested through 460 community organizations. Continue reading →
The Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission on Friday announced its ruling against Captain John Danilecki, who has faced numerous internal affairs complaints over his 38-year career with the Boston Police Department. Continue reading →
An official at the Wisconsin school where a student shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student says the 15-year-old was in her first semester there. Continue reading →
Columnist Dan Shaughnessy says it’s unfair to compare the two QBs when the Patriots go against the Bills on Sunday. Plus, does coach Jerod Mayo need to go? Continue reading →
The B’s are improving, but still have some ways to go. Is new coach Joe Sacco making a difference? Senior staff writer Kevin Paul DuPont is still waiting Continue reading →
An investigation of millions of death records — in a partnership between The New York Times, The Baltimore Banner, Big Local News, and nine other newsrooms across the country — reveals the extent to which drug overdose deaths have affected one group of Black men in dozens of cities across America at nearly every stage of their adult lives. Continue reading →
The incident — made public Thursday by Kentucky Public Radio, which first obtained the body-cam footage — sparked outrage from homeless advocates who criticized the officer’s actions as an inappropriate response during a medical emergency. Continue reading →
Russia unleashed a barrage of ballistic missiles on Kyiv early Friday, killing at least one person and injuring 12, city officials said. Continue reading →
US officials traveled through Damascus on Friday to meet with militias controlling the country, and to look for signs of journalist Austin Tice and other missing U.S. citizens. Continue reading →
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, on Friday endorsed Germany’s far-right party, a group with ties to neo-Nazis whose youth wing has been classified as “confirmed extremist” by German domestic intelligence. Continue reading →
Syria is in chaos. The danger to Israel and the West is that the next Syrian regime will be no friendlier than Assad was. After all, the enemy of your enemy isn’t always your friend. Continue reading →
Calling Jewish writers Zionists as an epithet and the reason to be excluded from the annals of publishing unless we denounce our attachment to our identities is frightening. Continue reading →
Name any state agencies that haven't been accused of corruption or incompetence, declares one letter writer. Another argues that it's only because of Healey's administration that patients still have care at several of the troubled hospitals. Continue reading →
Judge Leo T. Sorokin ruled that restaurateurs failed to make their case that the restrictions, particularly a $7,500 fee assessed only to restaurant owners in that neighborhood, was unconstitutional. Continue reading →
Governor McKee has agreed to make sweeping changes to address accusations that Rhode Island was violating the law by keeping children in state care at Bradley Hospital for months or years after they were ready to be discharged. Continue reading →
Born and raised in Boston, Lorraine O'Grady cast a critical eye on both Black culture and the white art establishment at once, in work spanning a range of media. Continue reading →
Excommunicated in 1999 after he allowed women to celebrate Mass and blessed same-sex unions, he helped establish an independent church that is thriving today. Continue reading →
Bostonians hit the books in 2024, with the library lending out 6.6 million physical and digital items combined. Here are the titles locals checked out the most this year. Continue reading →
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