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Cristian Polanco and Jose Lopez painted the entry of a new Buca di Beppo restaurant in Seekonk.

Corinne's Place has opened at 587 Main St. in Dennisport. Owned by business partners Jerry Sheffield of Marstons Mills and Barbara Wright of Harwich, Corinne's offers gourmet hot dogs in beef, turkey or vegetarian on grilled rolls.

Massachusetts House and Senate leaders agreed Friday to the state's most sweeping expansion of gambling in four decades -- drawing immediate criticism from Gov.

The Boston Police Department is seeking the publica s help to locate an adult male suffering brain trauma who has been missing since yesterday morning while visiting the Spaulding Rehabilitation Center located at 125 Nashua Street.

David Rawlings and Gillian Welch belt it out at last year's Newport Folk Festival.

Springfield Police arrested a 19-year-old male suspect and charged him with murder after he allegedly stabbed two people, killing one of them.

Share + Jul 30, 2010 1:50 pm US/Eastern Boston police have made an arrest in the murder of a 14-year-old boy, which sparked a summer crackdown on violence.

Medical staff at the Suffolk County jail waited too long in October to send a feverish and trembling immigrant detainee to the hospital, allowing a deadly bacterial infection to overtake his body and cause his death of heart failure at age 49, according to a report by the federal immigration agency obtained by the Globe.

Yesterday evening around 6:13PM, officers from District A-7 arrested suspects, Edwin Vasquez, 17, Wilmer Velasquez, 17, and Cristian A. Horosco, 17, all of East Boston were arrested and charged with Assault and Battery by Means of a Dangerous Weapon.

A 47-year-old South Boston man is facing seven felony charges, including five drug charges, according to Halifax County Sheriffa s Office records.

The Rev. Jeffrey Brown said people who witness shootings need to step forward and cooperate with authorities.

In 2006, three Boston University grad students started the Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition, which has become an important showcase of contemporary art from the New England area.

A Massachusetts state trooper has been taken to a hospital after his cruiser struck two utility poles in Quincy.

A 38-year old Malden woman bit a police officer during a Drug Control Unit investigation in Davis Square.

Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts, is known for its elite brownstone buildings.

Al Brown of the Boston Transportation Department installed a new metered parking sign for scooters on Boylston Street.

Norris Brock Gazela Primeiro of Philadelphia will visit New Bedford this weekend, and will be open for tours.

Neighbors continue to butt heads when it comes to the citya s plans to foster retail and residential construction along the northern end of Morrissey Blvd.

Just two days before his daughter Chelsea's much-ballyhooed wedding in upstate New York, former president Bill Clinton is expected to headline a fund-raiser and rally for US Representative Stephen F. Lynch today at a South Boston union hall.

Neponset Trail: An observer makes a point while on an extension-siting tour along the Neponset Greenway.