CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Ten hungry contestants recently tried to down a whole pound of bacon each, in just five minutes, at the Fourth Annual Bacon Eating Contest at Atwood’s Tavern in Cambridge.
BOSTON — If congressional Democrats win passage of a national health care overhaul, they will do so without the vote of one Massachusetts Democrat — Rep. Stephen Lynch.
BOSTON — The storm is gone but problems persist. Gov. Deval Patrick and Peter Judge, of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, individually joined WBUR Tuesday morning to discuss the storm’s damage and lingering trouble-spots.
BOSTON — A tenacious storm hanging over Massachusetts continued pouring rain on the state Monday, flooding roads and basements, forcing school closures and threatening to overwhelm drainage systems.
BOSTON — Massachusetts could cut local aid to cities and towns by as much as 4 percent next fiscal year, Democratic leaders on Beacon Hill said Friday.
BOSTON — A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet medical expenses for needy people and paid for the separation surgery of conjoined twins has died. A. Raymond Tye was 87.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Boston Red Sox on Wednesday signed former standout shortstop Nomar Garciaparra to a one-day contract so that he can retire as a member of the team.
BOSTON — The move comes after the chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, which is charged to develop the Filene’s Basement site, was quoted in an article explaining how he sat on a similar vacant property in New York City for years in order to squeeze more subsidies from the city.
THE STATE HOUSE — The Massachusetts Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would allow the city of Lawrence to borrow up to $35 million to avoid bankruptcy but requires stricter oversight than in the House bill.
Jean-Dany Joachim, the “poet populist” of Cambridge, recently returned from a family visit to earthquake-stricken Haiti, where he saw Port-au-Prince “with its guts open.” Joachim composed this poem about his experience there.
BOSTON — The following schools have been deemed “underperforming,” according to a release from the Massachusetts Department of Education.
WASHINGTON — In a report by The Boston Globe, Delahunt is quoted as saying he has been considering leaving for several years but was talked out of it by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, who urged him to help pass President Obama’s first-term agenda.
MIAMI — The U.S. Department of Education has named 16 finalists in the first round of its “Race to the Top” competition, which will deliver $4.35 billion in school reform grants. Massachusetts is among the finalists for the funding.
BOSTON — As a Haitian student, the January earthquake has changed the way Hyde Park’s Sabrina Isaac sees her life. She shares an essay on the subject.
BOSTON — Praising Massachusetts’ congressional delegates for their work on conservation issues, a new study from a conservation non-profit gives nine of the state’s 12 lawmakers perfect scores for their “pro-environment” voting records.
BOSTON — New Englanders are mourning the loss of two of their own who were killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province.
BOSTON — An AMBER alert is underway in Massachusetts as police search for a 1-year-old girl who was allegedly taken from a gas station in Swansea.
Two 1991 police reports, both attributed to the same Boston detective, tell very different stories of a murder pinned on Mafia boss Vincent Ferrara. An original, handwritten version of the report reveals exculpatory details that never made it to trial. Compare the documents side-by-side in this interactive feature.
Boston Police Det. Martin Coleman filed a handwritten report in 1991, stating that his witness had lied in the murder case against Vincent “The Animal” Ferrara. But the report never made it to trial, and a court would later find that the prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence. Judge Mark Wolf called it “the smokingest gun I’ve ever seen.” View the report.
BOSTON — The 20-year-old murder case against Boston Mafia boss Vincent Ferrara is a complicated story involving several key characters. Learn more about each of them in this interactive feature.
