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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.

Prosecutors say it's just a typo made by a usually reliable court stenographer. But the lawyer for a man charged with helping set up the robbery of a plowing contractor at the Sheraton Ferncroft golf course last January said it's far more serious than that - and suggested that it could lead to dismissals of dozens of other cases.

Share + Dec 14, 2009 3:27 pm US/Eastern The state's highest court on Monday threw out the convictions of a man found guilty of murdering a reputed gangland enforcer and attempting to kill two other alleged mobsters in 1996.

Winds and flooding once again with this storm, driving vessels out to sea in Maryland as well.

Mayora s push successful; City to receive 30 percent more in Homeland Security funding Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced that the United States Department of Homeland Security has added Boston to the list of Tier 1 Urban Area Security Initiatives and will now receive 30 percent more in homeland security funding.

A parking garage has probably never drawn such accolades as it did Monday when officials gathered at Wonderland to celebrate a parking garage Stimulus award, but then again, it isna t any ordinary garage.

On most Election Days, voters approaching the polls encounter a colorful array of candidates' signs.

Jane Vitagliano remembers her parents sending donations to Globe Santa in the names of their family pets when she was growing up in Winthrop.

It looks as if five questions will be on next year's statewide ballot in Massachusetts.

It's no secret that I have been skeptical about the rush to join the state-of-the-art $130 million regional vocational school.

28, 1942, Cocoanut Grove nightclub inferno that killed 492 people, every day is a gift to be embraced with gratitude.

"It's Thanksgiving - time to put our feedbags on," my family likes to say as we elbow for room next to the Pilgrim and Puritan ghosts the holiday summons to our table.

The Bill of Rights, which has guaranteed Americans' freedoms for well over 200 years, originally had 14 copies.

An East Boston man allegedly charged a Winthrop church for masonry work his company didn't perform and then stole more money using checks taken from the rectory.

Under the MWRA plan, the wind turbine would be erected sometime next spring at the DeLauri Pump Station at 192 Alford St., near the Everett border, becoming the fourth such renewable energy generator in the city, said James Hunt, chief of Boston's environmental and energy services and MWRA board member.

Many many parents of youngsters growing up in this city and in Winthrop have lost a great friend and doctor with the death of Ailish Hayes.

Under pressure from the state, the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational School District has cut more than $850,000 with its latest budget proposal and sent new assessment bills to the 12 cities and towns that send students to its high school.

Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday urged the Massachusetts Legislature to suspend its rules and stay in session as long as needed to pass an education-overhaul bill.