It's Super Bowl Sunday here at the Elks Hall. Along the icy harbor, recreational boats are huddled in shrink wrap, but inside, the local guy who went from selectman to speaker of the House is rolling out his election year ritual.

LNG tankers have often traversed Boston Harbor under the Tobin Bridge on the way to Everett, but the next shipment is originating in Yemen.

Massachusetts lawmakers will revive one of Beacon Hill's most contentious issues in the coming weeks with measures to legalize casino gambling and slots at racetracks, betting that desperation to create new jobs and revenue could tip the debate this time around.

It's not easy being Michael Kettenbach these days. First, his attempts to use his fortune to convert a gorgeous Back Bay condominium building into one of the city's most glorious single-owner residences have been thwarted by the 82-year-old professor on the fourth floor who has been reluctant to sell the unit where he's lived for 32 years.

Early on in Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North , C.S. Manegold's intimate and sobering account of slavery's hold on New England, we encounter Samuel Maverick, master of Noddles Island in Boston Harbor.

Boston Police charge that David McKenny, 44, of Winthrop, forced a man at gunpoint into his car at Stuart and Tremont streets on Jan.

Boston Police charge that David McKenny, 44, of Winthrop, forced a man at gunpoint into his car at Stuart and Tremont streets on Jan.

The state Department of Environmental Protection has assessed M&M Realty Trust a $14,000 penalty for wetland protection act violations on property it owns between 21-41 Argyle St.

John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, kept American Indians as slaves and helped to write the first law in the US officially sanctioning the practice of keeping African slaves.

State Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo spoke before the North Shore Alliance for Economic Development yesterday promising to file a bill for casino gambling in the Bay State next month.

Edward DiLorenzo, 52, of 6 Washington Sq., was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery and two counts of assault by a dangerous weapon.

I'm a Fairfielder who goes to college in Massachusetts. I don't need to remind everyone of the importance of tomorrow's election.

Some heada s up police investigating was right on the money last Wednesday, January 6, as Revere Police cashed in a Winthrop couple who was allegedly running a counterfeiting operation out of their home.

Coast Guard officials reassured Massachusetts lawmakers that they are ramping up security ahead of a scheduled delivery of liquefied natural gas from Yemen next month.

'I share with you the concern of the potential risk that these shipments bring,' Speaker DeLeo said.

For John Winthrop his appointment in 1630 as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a financial, social, and political boon.

The state's House of Representatives has denied a bid by Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante, supported by Gov.

Shipments of liquefied natural gas from Yemen are scheduled to arrive for the first time in Boston Harbor in February, prompting a review of tanker security by the US Coast Guard that has intensified since a passenger with links to Al Qaeda in Yemen tried to blow up a US airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day.

226-2206 Twelve years ago, Paul Koumanelis came to Nashville from his native Massachusetts as a songwriter.

Speaker Robert A. DeLeo was seen as a consensus builder. As he rose to power last January, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo did not look like a leader to inspire sharp divisions.