Partners HealthCare on Monday named a top official, Dr. Anne Klibanski, as its interim chief executive officer. Klibanski is the chief academic officer at the hospital network.  

Troy Marden was killed on Saturday night when the snowmobile he was riding on Thompson Lake in Poland, Maine, hit a snowbank. 

The Dorchester Democrat was among hundreds of demonstrators who braved the snow and cold to protest Monday in Harvard Square.  

Authorities responded to a property near Cedar Springs, about 30 miles north of Grand Rapids, after someone discovered the bodies and called 911. The sheriff said she doesn?t believe a shooter is at large.  

The top of a box truck hit the Fairfield Street pedestrian bridge at about 2:45 p.m. Monday. The incident slowed traffic but caused no damage to the bridge itself.  

With UMass Amherst?s purchase of Mount Ida college, the potential for overlap with UMass Boston is already clear.  

An MIT group is protesting the university?s invitation of Kissinger as part of the celebration of a new college. 

Joseph Ciccarello said he awoke to see flames out a window after Emmie, a Shih Tzu-Yorkie mix, began barking loudly Sunday morning in Melrose.  

George Mendonsa of Middletown, R.I., was two days shy of his 96th birthday when he died Sunday. 

Todd Gieg has mostly eschewed his day job to construct a hyper-realistic replica of a long-forgotten narrow-gauge passenger railroad and the seaside towns it rolled through. 

A measles outbreak that has been blamed partly on vaccination fears has killed 136 people, mostly children, and sickened 8,400 others, an official said.