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Former mayor Thomas M. Menino has been diagnosed months after leaving office with an advanced form of cancer that has spread to his liver and lymph nodes, a jolting discovery that he described as the most profound challenge of his life.

Boston police arrested the adopted son of a West Roxbury man found killed in his home Friday morning, said Jake Wark, spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney's office.

A 33-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the slaying of his 66-year-old father whose body was found in his West Roxbury home yesterday, law enforcement officials said.

In much of the country, low-cost beers in the early evening are a mainstay of office bonding - perhaps even the unsung lubricant of a schmoozy new economy.

According to Zillow's home value index, median sale prices - values that fall in the middle of a range of numbers rather than taken as an average of all prices - were $418,300 for February 2014.

A two-alarm fire early Saturday on Bennington Street in East Boston caused an estimated $350,000 in damage and displaced nine people, according to the Boston Fire Department.

Just before Saint Patrick Day, get into the spirit of the Green with a variety of Irish talent on March 15-16!-slide0 Channel your inner Lord of the Dance & learn a few key Irish step moves for St. Patrick's Day.

Boston is full of medical professionals, and many are multitalented folks. The doctors, medical students, research scientists, nurses, and therapists in the Longwood Symphony Orchestra are a case in point.

Four suspects have been arrested in connection with a violent beating on a Red Line train at Broadway station Sunday night, Transit police said.

The Coast Guard says there are no injuries or damage after an MBTA ferry ran aground on a sandbar in the Boston Harbor area near Hingham.

Customers line up for soda bread and other treats at Greenhills Irish Bakery in Dorchester on a recent Saturday morning.

The joke, Brendan Fay recalls, was that peace would come to Northern Ireland before gay people like him would be allowed to take part in New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade.

Every day, police solve crimes in all our communities. But when suspects get away, Massachusetts law enforcement officers turn to the public for help.

Police received reports of a death at 105 Perham St. at 8:26 a.m., according to police spokeswoman Rachel McGuire.

Cornerstone Realty Capital recently arranged $3.15 million in financing for a client to build a mixed-used building in Boston.

The first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival was also the North American debut of Mozart's own violin and viola.

A 24-year-old Dorchester woman allegedly had a gun and drugs hidden in the diaper bag slung over her shoulder as she carried her baby in a car seat past officers who were arresting her boyfriend on a warrant.

Hundreds of young people stormed downtown Boston yesterday afternoon, rallying for the allocation of more funds to youth employment programs that create jobs for students.

Today, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the selection of a search firm to identify the permanent Commissioner of the Boston Fire Department.

State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry's groundbreaking debut as the first woman, first Haitian-American and first Dorchester resident to host the storied St. Patrick's Day breakfast on Sunday is apparently drawing some international attention.