Williams Evans, the acting Boston police commissioner, will be named to the permanent position on Thursday, Mayor Martin Walsh’s office said.
A school superintendent said the Department of Children and Families failed to respond promptly to cases of neglect and abuse.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer talked about what the company has in store at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.
Another man was hospitalized after the three duck hunters fell into the frigid Westport River this morning.
Despite an increase in fighting in Fallujah, residents say they support the militants.
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The cold shattered records that in some places had stood for more than a century.
Nuggets 129, Celtics 98
The Celtics never led in the game, their fifth straight loss and their worst of the season.
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Brady doesn’t see this playoff game as a duel between him and the Colts’ budding star quarterback.
Attorney General Martha Coakley, who is running for governor, wants a separate Child Protection Division.
A United Nations diplomat says the first batch of chemicals has been loaded onto a Danish cargo ship and taken out of the country.
Mayor Martin Walsh chose the Conte Forum at Boston College so that he could invite a larger audience to his inauguration.
Despite signs of improvement, Eric Rosengren said the situation remains precarious, if not dire, for too many Americans.
The war in Sierra Leone is over, and the child soldiers have departed. But emotional recovery by the survivors is sluggish.
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