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Brian Lee, 46, is charged with first-degree murder for the October 2006 death of his father, Edward Lee, 70, who was beaten to death and dismembered with a power saw inside the Hollingsworth Street triple-decker the two occasionally shared.

Claude Leonidas continues to make his weekday trek from Mattapan to South Station on the MBTA, undeterred by a critical report last week highlighting a huge backlog -- $500 million worth -- of maintenance projects needed to keep the system safe.

Leta s give a big shout-out to those two MBTA employees who worked together to save a life.

A Boston man accused of killing his elderly father and dismembering his body is set to go on trial this week.

An aging infrastructure. A massive debt load. And 51 unfunded projects classified as a a oedanger to life and limb of passengers and/or employees.a Those are just a few of the problems facing the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the agency that oversees the Red Line and other transit lines that together provide for 1.2 million rider ...

Share + Nov 11, 2009 4:47 pm US/Eastern Reporting Ron Sanders An elderly woman suffered life-threatening injuries when she was struck by a Boston Department of Public Works truck at Tremont and Winter Streets on Wednesday.

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Charice Lewis, of Mattapan, a train operator for the MBTA, spoke with the media after she was honored yesterday.

A two-alarm fire that broke out shortly before 7 p.m. did an estimated $400,000 damage to a single-family home at 83 Blake St., the Boston Fire Department reports.

They offered their best imitations of his gruff, sandpaper voice - one that never shied away from barking out opinions directly in the face of a boss or a prosecutor.

MassVOTE confirms one measure of the interest in this year's election in Boston: the highest turnout in a city election since 1993, when Thomas Menino won his first term as mayor.

Joel "Ninety" Clay, 25, got a 15-to-17-year prison term for running a crack-distribution operation out of a vacant Sturbridge Street apartment, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

Election spirit seemed strong across the city yesterday, less than 24 hours before polls opened citywide for some of the closest races in recent memory.

It's the Sunday before Election Day, and that means church visits are in order. Mayor Thomas Menino is in churches in Mattapan and the South End, while Team Floon is in Dorchester.

Confirming what we Tweeted yesterday , U.S. Sen. John Kerry's campaign folks have released his schedule for the weekend, with stops planned in West Roxbury and Mattapan.

Nine months after its revival, the Mattapan Branch Library is strikingly busy on a Thursday afternoon.

The City of Boston's new "Street Improvement Team" has plans to tackle Mattapan Square on Thursday, October 29 for a quick but intensive clean-up of local streets and outdoor equipment.

A woman was sexually assaulted early Saturday morning as she crossed through the Back Bay Fens on Agassiz Street.

A 38-year-old man was critically injured in a stabbing yesterday at Boston Medical Center, where an altercation broke out between two groups of people in a waiting room, authorities said.

A Somerville man was stabbed repeatedly outside of the CVS on JFK Street in Harvard Square early Saturday morning before taking a cab to the emergency room.