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In 13 weeks, I'm headed back to full-time work for the first time since starting a family five years ago.

David Portnoy, left, hired a firm to collect 5,000 signatures to join the mayoral race.

At UMass Boston, support for on-campus dorms is growing, according to preliminary data released by the university.

Andrew Rannells, center, performing with an ensemble cast in "The Book of Mormon" at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York.

The new one-story, steel-clad building on Northern Avenue is part clubhouse for the tech set and part monument to Mayor Thomas M. Menino's efforts to transform the South Boston Waterfront into the Innovation District .

The Boston School Committee has voted 5-0 to appoint Boston Public Schools Chief Financial Officer John McDonough as Interim Superintendent.

Bike-related crashes spiked a small amount given the higher ridership in the Boston area over the course of the last two years.

UPDATE, 12:15 p.m. : The Massachusetts Republican Party was quick to jump on the reports about Murray's resignation, saying Murray is trying "to outrun the scandal that dogs him" in a statement on their website .

The office of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino released a list Monday of streets proposed for repaving during the 2013 road work season.

The director of a venerable church in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood is facing charges that he took over the church and intimidated its members while he and his associates looted its coffers.

In the East Room on Wednesday night, Obama is presenting the 71-year-old singer-songwriter with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

Pennypacker's , a small food truck company known for its porchetta sandwich, is planning to open its first brick-and-mortar location in Somerville's Magoun Square.

Following are excerpts from the Burlington Police Department log.i»¿ Note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account.

The report states: "About 3:21 PM on Thursday 2/11/10 Officers Hester and Cordasco ... were patrolling in the Downtown Crossing area when a radio call came in for a fight in the area of 172 Tremont St.

Retired Boston police Detective Billy Kee, testifying at the sentencing yesterday of the men who murdered his daughter, was on the verge of doing what he said cops aren't supposed to do.

Military Heroes Garden of Flags on the Boston Common Every year, the MA Military Heroes organization plants a garden of 20,000 flags in front of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common to commemorate the Massachusetts service members who have given their lives to defend the United States and our freedom.

A 13-year-old boy was found safe in Cambridge on Tuesday night about three hours after his father had allegedly kidnapped him after an altercation in Roxbury, prompting an Amber Alert and an intensive police search, officials said.

Commuter rail service is not great for quick trips in the city because it takes too long to catch a train.

Boston police conducted a major sweep of gang associates in the Roxbury section of the city today, a targeted raid meant to crack down on drug dealing and violent crime associated with the group, authorities said.

A motorcycle crashed head-on into a convertible on Route 1A in Hamilton on Friday evening leaving a Swampscott man and woman with injuries, the man with a serious injury.