Black smoke poured from a vacant Foundry Street building Friday as crews called in mutual aid from across Greater Boston.

Free family fun hits Weston Park Saturday, with more than 40 vendors and a life-sized Candy Land board.

Patricia Jehlen backs Christine Barber as four Democrats chase her old Senate seat covering Somerville, Medford and Cambridge.

A shirtless man polishing a Revolutionary War powder horn triggered a full lockdown at Grace Chapel while he waited to pick up his wife.

Boston will see a hot, mostly sunny weekend, with Sunday reaching 91 before storm chances return Tuesday and cooler weather arrives late week.

Conner Mantz makes his Falmouth debut days after welcoming his first child, chasing a doubled cash purse for U.S. finishers.

Four staffing agencies and a Boston-area Sheraton settled after shorting roughly 421 workers on pay, sick time and overtime.

Felipe Jonet-Branco stashed guns in a vending machine and $40,000 in cash at his Brockton shop, prosecutors say. He now awaits sentencing in November.

Robert Butland, 39, kept the weapons stashed in a locked closet, a backpack and coffee table drawers, prosecutors say.

Police say the suspect used fake profiles to pressure young victims into sending explicit images, then demanded payment.

Rescuers waded into Salem Sound at night to free a passenger thrown clear of the wreck near Childrens Island.

The crash near Grove and Washington streets came hours after a cement truck knocked out power in the same neighborhood.

A northbound driver was hospitalized Friday after a tire iron smashed through her Subaru's windshield on I-95 in Peabody.