LaMar Cook, 45, of Springfield, has been fired from his state job effective immediately, the governor's office said.

A woman who experienced postpartum psychosis wanted to have another child. Her husband had a valid fear: “What if you kill the kids?”

“We could take them away,” the president said of games in the city that he said were already sold out.

The sentencing wraps up a 9-month saga that began when Fernandes Anderson was arrested last December.

Fernandes Anderson, who represents Roxbury, Dorchester, Fenway and part of the South End, was indicted in December on fraud charges.

Advances in fire science and eyewitness memory cast "real doubt," the judge wrote.

The type of data, timeframes and what cities you're comparing Boston against can lead to different conclusions.

Justices on the Supreme Judicial Court are deciding whether hearings for 28 men accused of paying for sex at a brothel network with locations in Cambridge and Watertown should play out in public.

Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty in March to federal criminal charges for leaking highly classified military documents, will now face a military court-martial.

Local advocacy organizations who support survivors of domestic violence worry about the impacts of federal cuts.