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Confessed killer John V. Martorano today completed three days on the witness stand in the racketeering and murder trial of James "Whitey" Bulger, and then walked out of the courtroom, a free man despite having killed 20 people.

When James McCoubrey heard he is reportedly the oldest man in the world, he said, "That's a bunch of bunk," according to his 84-year-old daughter.

The city of Boston is expanding its beetle-fighting program to help stop the spread of the nasty elm bark beetle that threatens to destroy trees in the city's parks.

Bostonians regularly enjoy their parks, whether it's large like Boston Common or small like Charlestown's Eden Park.

On April 30, Massachusetts voters picked businessman Gabriel E. Gomez, a political newcomer, to run on the Republican ticket and veteran Representative Edward Markey to run on the Democratic ticket in the Massachusetts special election to fill John Kerry's Senate seat.

All those beautiful spots near the water, once waiting for commercial tenants, are filling up fast with eateries, lounges, bars, and shops.

In an attempt to connect with a Roxbury community already stung by a summer surge in violence, Boston police officers will join YMCA staff Friday for the first in a series of hot dog cookouts they hope will attract the neighborhood's young adults, the YMCA said today.

At about 10:11 PM, on Monday, June 17, 2013, officers from district D-4 responded to a radio call for a robbery in progress in the area of 334 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston .

Soon, you'll be able to cool down in a city pool any day of the week. The city announced on Monday that Boston's 10 Centers for Youth and Families city swimming pools and one city beach will stay open every day of the week starting on June 29. In addition to the 10 pools open seven days a week, all of the city's pools are open on Sundays from 11:30 ... (more)

The median price for a luxury condo in neighborhoods like the Back Bay, South End and Beacon Hill hit $1.4 million during the first three months of the year.

A screen grab of an interactive heat map , produced by Esri for the BBJ. The map ranks Boston-area ZIP codes by the median increase in property tax assessments from 2012 to 2013.

Filling up three separate lots in the South End, the SoWa Open Market packed the south part of the neighorhood this past Father's Day, Sun.

I think it's the fact that unlike during the earlier Zip Connolly trials, he's been back in Boston for a while now.

CSX has declared "substantial completion" to the $100 million expansion of its freight yard between Shrewsbury and Franklin streets.

A Northeastern University student was held on $30,000 bail today on charges he attacked a woman at knifepoint, threatened to rape her and started cutting her clothes off early Saturday, authorities said.

More like a million to 1! Likely motives, 1. drugs/drug money. 2. baby daddy/mommy issue 3. Fight over the EBT card.

Maintenance on Interstate 93 will require transportation officials to close the expressway through Boston two times per month beginning Tuesday on the northbound side.

With Boston's mayoral and City Council races heating up, many of the candidates turned out Sunday for Charlestown's Bunker Hill Day Parade, taking advantage of an opportunity to get their faces and names out in the community.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced today that the city will begin staffing 10 pools and one beach seven days a week in preparation for the end of the school year and a hot summer.

This 1980 black and white surveillance photo released by the U.S. Attorney's Office and presented as evidence during the first day of a trial for James "Whitey" Bulger in U.S. District Court in Boston, on June 12, 2013, shows Bulger, center, with Ted Berenson, left, and Phil Wagenheim at a Lancaster Street garage in Boston's North End.