Somerville News

Michael Kanter, owner of Cambridge Naturals, is a founding member of Cambridge Local First.

Each weekday morning at 4:30 a.m., Raulito Maestre groggily greets the day and gets ready for the hour-plus trip by bus and train from his Dorchester home to his Cambridge high school.

N ature abhors a vacuum and so, too, it appears, does the Mafia. A reputed underworld executioner from Somerville who authorities say is a made man in La Cosa Nostra was federally indicted yesterday on charges he was ramping up organized crime in New England while giving Gotham's Colombo family a foot in the door of the Hub's North End.

Heavy snow falls have also battered much of the US east coast, killing at least five people.

The following is an announcement from Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone: Two former Medford soccer coaches have been arrested on forcible child rape charges, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone informed the public today.

If Picasso could turn the Spanish Civil War into art, perhaps Somerville teenagers can do the same with local union conflict.

A driver was seriously injured after his vehicle flipped over in Somerville early Monday morning.

SOMERVILLE, Mass., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Farm Aid today announced that 72 family farm and rural service organizations working to strengthen family farm agriculture nationwide received $503,500 from its grant program during 2009.

The latestA boss of the Colombo crime family - a 66-year-old gangster who lives in a quaint Massachusetts town - was indicted Thursday on racketeering charges.

Two young ponies saved from a New Jersey kill pen last week are enjoying their temporary home in Framingham while their rescuer searches for a permanent caretaker.

We need something to get us through the long, long, long, nights of the solstice.

A Massachusetts man authorities say is a leading member of the Colombo crime family has been indicted along with three others on organized crime charges involving five states.

Bundle up and bring your sunglasses to the annual Illuminations Tour , on which you can see Somerville houses dolled up in bright lights and decorations.

A Somerville man led his girlfriend into an "ugly, bleak and sordid" life of prostitution, then tried to kill her in a Danvers motel, a prosecutor said yesterday, as the trial of Bismarck Gutierrez got under way in Salem Superior Court.

Edward M. Kennedy's nephews. Critics say Stephen E. Smith Jr. - the eldest son of Jean Kennedy Smith - is reneging on promises he made about the $50 million condominium village, behind Magoun Square near a proposed MBTA station.

His TV show is a hit and celebrities swear by him. But his tough-love training has detractors barking that positive reinforcement is less cruel and fetches better results.

A spate of high-profile dog-biting incidents has prompted debate over appropriate punishment for aggressive pets, even as animal control officers and activists work to update a state law that defines dangerous dogs and how to deal with them.

A national corporation, Angelica provides laundry and linen services to area hospitals and health care facilities through its Somerville facilities located across the street from the offices of Centro Presente on Inner Belt Road in East Somerville.

It took a little time for Antje Duvekot to get her musical career under way, but over the past couple of years she's become one of the busiest and most lauded performers on the folk music scene.

The Board of Aldermen unanimously approved increases to Somerville's residential and commercial property tax rates on Thursday.