The engineer who prepared the work plans for replacing gas mains in the Lawrence area failed to account for a critical sensor in a line that was being replaced, the agency said. 

Business and transit groups are teaming up to rate the MBTA every year on its promise to whittle away at a multibillion-dollar fix-it list. 

Seven current and former students say former professors groped students in plain sight, hosted hot-tub parties with students, openly debated who had the ?hottest lab,? and sexually assaulted grad students.  

Police in Boston are labeling Central American teenagers and young men as gang members and sharing that information with immigration agencies, according to a lawsuit.  

A grand jury indicted a Mexican man in connection with a rampage aboard a boat about 55 miles off the Mass. coast that left one dead. 

US Rep. Seth Moulton is playing a key role in the effort to block Nancy Pelosi. 

Unofficial Florida election results show that the governor?s race seems to be settled after a machine recount, but the US Senate race is likely headed to a hand recount. 

Democrat Jared Golden, who finished behind Republican US Rep. Bruce Poliquin in the first round of balloting in Maine?s new voting system, came from behind to flip the US House seat.  

They?re trying to do good by doing what they know best, from baking to cleaning to child care.  

The subterfuge failed, and the traveler and her husband ultimately forfeited about $27,000 in undeclared currency to the federal government, officials said.  

Scientists have discovered an impact crater large enough to swallow Paris.  

A new study adds more weight to the theory that climate change may have been behind the decline of the Harappan civilization.