The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 1 Maple St. in Roxbury at 8:45 a.m. for what quickly turned into a two-alarm fire that caused the roof to collapse. Read more.

Update: The cell passed over the area and so people were allowed to return to the banks of the Charles. State Police began ...

The Fort Pointer got to the Old State House 20 minutes before the annual reading of the Declaration of Independence this ...

Cambridge Police report a man was shot to death at Broadway and Norfolk Street shortly before 5:30 a.m. Paramedics declared the man, found lying on the ground, dead at the scene.

State security regulators today charged that Scott Given of Wellesley, who claimed to have started the Croft School as a way to provide a quality private education at reduced costs, suckered parents ...

Boston Police report arresting a 14-year-old from Dorchester on charges he shot another 14-year-old on Milton Avenue near Fuller Street in Dorchester around 8 p.m. on May 6. Read more.

Boston Police report the man charged with killing Brent Stevenson in a Massachusetts Avenue car chase that started at Newbury Street and ended with Stevenson dead in a crashed car at Huntington Avenue ...

NBC Boston talks to people about Brown's impact on the community.

Gretchen Van Ness looked up from her home on Fairmount Hill in Hyde Park yesterday evening to see way more circling turkey vultures than we thought existed in the entire state: See video.