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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.

Two Boston have been indicted by a Norfolk Grand Jury for their alleged involvement in the October shooting of a woman driving on the VFW Parkway , Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey announced Wednesday.

Mayor-elect Martin Walsh read "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" beside Keith Lockhart at the opening night of the Holiday Pops in Boston on Wednesday.

After years of operating out of a 2,000-foot store in the Taj hotel on Newbury Street, Chanel this week opened a store across the street quintupling the space to 10,000 square feet and giving Boston the fourth largest Chanel store in the country.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren pledged Wednesday to serve out her full six-year term and not run for president in 2016.

Boston police have issued an arrest warrant for a 44-year-old man for trafficking marijuana after a Roxbury fire exposed a house full of the plants, with an estimated street value of as much as $1 million.

Andrew Younger, a minister for the Nova Scotia government, will be reunited with the 47-foot-tall white spruce the province donated to Boston when the city's official Christmas tree is lit in the Common Thursday.

Seventeen bars in the Boston area, including several close to Faneuil Hall, have partnered with the cab-hailing app Hailo to provide $10 discounts to holiday revelers.

Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh tapped cops, teachers, artists, priests, doctors, college presidents, union bosses, transportation consultants, Beacon Hill pols and even a Dropkick Murphy to serve on his army of advisers on policies ranging from education and public safety to health, arts and culture.

A Boston resident smokes in the Boston Common. The Boston City Council approved the ban on smoking in all parks, cemeteries and other spaces run by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department.

In "The Hunger Games," Katniss Evergreen staves her hunger by eating nature's ignored bounty: dandelion greens, wild onions, and the potato-like tuber roots from her namesake Katniss plant.

On a chilly morning just outside Maverick Square in East Boston, the scent of braising meat is enough to draw diners into Mi Rancho, a modest Colombian restaurant that opens its doors at 7 a.m. The space feels warm and friendly, with Mariachi music on the speakers, and neighbors and cops stopping in for coffee and arepas.

Drivers emerging from the Ted Williams Tunnel on their way to Logan Airport must think fast to determine which lane to get into, the left for departures or right for arrivals.

Salem resident Robert Buckley stands during his arraignment on Tuesday, December 03, 2013 inside Chelsea District Court as his lawyer Francisco Fernandez reads a document.

The developers behind a 23-unit residential project proposed for East 5th Street will before the South Boston community Tuesday night to pitch their plan.

The Boston Fire Department today deployed a small army of firefighters and a fleet of vehicles to overwhelm an eight-alarm fire that ripped through a South Boston commercial building undergoing renovation.

Boston firefighters are seen at an 8 alarm fire at 327 Summer St. in the Seaport District this morning, December 3, 2013.