Local News - Boston Herald

Transit study says commuter bus lane best I-93

Sun Oct 12 1:43pm EDT

SALEM, N.H. - Proponents of restoring passenger train service between Boston and Manchester worry a new transit study will derail their efforts. A draft report presented...

  • Kenyan Charles Munyeni wins Boston half marathon Sun Oct 12 12:13pm EDT

    Charles Munyeni of Kenya held off countryman and training partner Gilbert Okari to win the Boston half marathon with a time of 1:02:45.87 on Sunday. Okari finished in 1:02:47.62. In...

  • Boston College launches $1.5B fundraising drive Sun Oct 12 9:28am EDT

    BOSTON - Boston College is launching a $1.5 billion fundraising drive to pay for campus-wide construction projects and expand financial aid. The fundraising drive is the...

  • Military families speak out at Boston Common Sun Oct 12 9:13am EDT

    A rally drew hundreds to Boston Common yesterday to protest the Iraq war and memorialize fallen soldiers. "There are several of us who are Gold Star (parents) and...

  • Next up, Yankee-gate Sun Oct 12 9:13am EDT

    Republican Jeff Beatty , who's seeking to unseat Sen. John F. Kerry , got into a war of words with the Democrat this week over, of...

  • Re-entry by the numbers: 2007 Sun Oct 12 8:58am EDT

    2,562 inmates were released to the streets in 2007, including 988 inmates left unsupervised by probation or parole and 158 inmates who were let out of a maximum-security prison. 1,946...

  • Chief: 'Angry' felons to be freed Sun Oct 12 12:17am EDT

    Faced with exploding costs and a record-high inmate population, the state prison chief is warning that Massachusetts can't afford its incarceration rate and must alter...

  • DCF fears kids will be cut loose Sun Oct 12 12:17am EDT

    As state agencies struggle with major budget cuts, child advocates are alarmed about the future of hundreds of teens who "age out" of social services when they turn...

  • Agency head charts progress, but fears worst Sun Oct 12 12:17am EDT

    Sixteen months into his job leading one of the toughest and most highly criticized state agencies, Angelo McClain says he has reduced the number of children "stuck"...

  • Salem street hit by two blazes Sun Oct 12 12:17am EDT

    Two fires that Salem police and firefighters say were not related broke out within two days of each other on the same street - one on Thursday afternoon and the other early...

  • T cops nab alleged perv Sun Oct 12 12:17am EDT

    Transit Police have arrested a 21-year-old Quincy man accused of groping a male passenger on a southbound Red Line train between Boston and Quincy Sept. 16. The Herald...

  • Fare-skipping teen busted with handgun Sun Oct 12 12:16am EDT

    Following the broken-windows policing philosophy, two transit cops managed to take a loaded Glock .40 caliber gun off a man trying to board an MBTA train yesterday after spotting...

  • Lost manatee pulled from Cape waters Sun Oct 12 12:16am EDT

    DENNIS - A wayward manatee is headed south after being pulled from frigid waters off Cape Cod. The juvenile male manatee wandered into Sesuit Harbor in Dennis this week....

  • Sun shines on green library initiative Sun Oct 12 12:16am EDT

    Massachusetts is offering $5 million to entice municipalities to go green when they renovate or build new libraries. The green incentives are available to 31 cities and...

  • Utilitarian artwork Sun Oct 12 12:16am EDT

    City artists are taking to the streets as part of a program to rid ugly utility boxes of graffiti. PaintBox, a collaboration of the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism...

  • Plan to downgrade supermax facility Sun Oct 12 12:16am EDT

    The state prison chief is proposing major changes for three prisons, including a plan to reduce the security level at the maximum-security MCI-Cedar Junction and reserve Old...

  • Heart & Sole Sun Oct 12 12:16am EDT

    Ever since Enrico Disano opened Henry's Repair Shop in Hingham Square 34 years ago, the 81-year-old cobbler has been trying to get a leg up on life. "I never...

  • Menino, St. Petersburg mayor issue wagers on ALCS Sat Oct 11 12:58pm EDT

    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The mayors of Boston and St. Petersburg have more on the line during the American League Championship Series than a trip to the World Series for their...

  • Van driver's work in Mass. aided Nobel winners Sat Oct 11 12:28pm EDT

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - When two American scientists won a Nobel Prize this week in chemistry, the driver of a car dealership's courtesy van had reason to take special interest. Research...

  • Cops hunt thief in Quincy church hits Sat Oct 11 9:58am EDT

    A crook who is ripping off Quincy's faithful was being hunted by cops last night, who say they want to question a 44-year-old drifter with warrants in two towns in connection...