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Standing in Hyde Square, outgoing Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino found himself engulfed in a mob of excited children clamoring to meet not him but Santa, who was handing out presents and candy canes.

They were just two of many emergency 911 calls on July 26, one suburban and the other in Boston, three miles apart and seemingly unrelated.

A Mechanic Street man who had been working at Ruz Custom Tees in the Mall at Whitney Field was arraigned in Leominster District Court on a single count of distributing counterfeit materials.

Boston Police survey the scene moments after one of their fellow officers was transported after an officer involved shooting on Geneva Ave. and Westfield Street in Roxbury.

Multiple sources told WBZ-TV that the officer was shot in the arm. That officer, identified by multiple sources as a member of Boston police's gang unit, was being taken to a Boston hospital.

A Roslindale man allegedly led a drug ring that also included his brother and his mother, authorities said today, announcing a number of arrests in an investigation that used wiretaps to eavesdrop on the group's activities.

Well-wishers lined Martin Luther King Boulevard in 1990 as Nelson Mandela's motorcade left Madison Park High School in Roxbury.

The state's largest foundation will give $50 million to Boston-area nonprofits and efforts that fight climate change - one of Over the next five years, the $1 billion Barr Foundation, the principal charitable vehicle for the famously private Amos Hostetter Jr. and his wife, Barbara, will give multiyear grants of $100,000 to $1 million to public ... (more)

Mayor Thomas M. Menino, long the master of municipal yuletide celebrations, had taken his appointed position, right in front of Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus.

Before Prohibition, there were 31 breweries in Boston, largely concentrated in the Stony Brook corridor of Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Boston -- everywhere you go. Looking for ideas on how you can revel in the festiveness of the city? Here are eight ideas for some traditional and not-so-traditional things you can do in Boston this holiday season.

Boston regulators have approved construction of the city's first condominium complex with no parking for residents' cars, a project expected to be a test case.

Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.] The Melrose Police Department has an anonymous tip line: 781-665-TIPS .

Mayor Thomas M. Menino kicked off Boston's holiday season with a series of initiatives to enhance the city's holiday spirit.

Closing out the Biggest Year in the History of Boston's Annual Food Drive with 5 Days of Amazing Prizes! Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced that the 27th Annual bostonCANshare program will close out more than a month of generous giving this week by giving back to donors with dozens of amazing prizes ranging from Boston Celtics tickets to an ... (more)

A tax preparer from Boston's North End has pleaded guilty to obstruction and mail fraud in connection with the misappropriation of nearly $800,000 in client income tax refunds.

Just four months after being released from Robben Island Prison, Nelson Mandela, perhaps the most noted political prisoner in the world, was welcomed by throngs of enthusiastic Bostonians at several stops around the city.

"The Phantom of the Opera" is the longest-running show in Broadway history with more than 10,000 performances But what becomes a legendary show most? A remounting.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. &#8212 A 9-year-old Pittsfield boy is in critical condition following a house fire at his Merriam Street home.

This young boy seems to be on guard alongside a member of the Jamaica Defence Force outside his gate in Waterford, St Catherine, yesterday.