Chronicle reports a man was arrested over the weekend on charges he set a series of brush fires in the city - and that he is a s suspect in a fire set not long before his arrest. Read more.

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UMass Amherst is telling foreign students and faculty they probably want to be back on campus before the change of administration in Washington - and will provide housing for any undergraduate ...

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Brian Joyce, 30, of Dorchester on a charge of first-degree murder for gunning down Marcus Dunn-Gordon, 27, of Randolph in the parking lot of Boston Bowl, ...

A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about this relic of the time before everybody had their own personal communications device: Read more.

The MBTA reports the day started with a switch problem near Wellington on the Orange Line and a dead trolley at Chestnut Hill on the Green Line. Both problems since fixed.

New York City has banned rental broker fees. It will be interesting to see if Massachusetts follows suit.

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Boston firefighters responded to 10 Weyonoke St. in Dorchester around 10:10 a.m. for what turned into a three-alarm fire.