11+ hour, 20+ min ago   (153+ words) An artificial intelligence startup that automates background checks for banks, law firms, and universities is moving its top brass to Boston after pulling in $56 million in new funding. Xapien announced the investment round this week, saying the money will fund…...

14+ hour, 8+ min ago   (159+ words) A patron identified only as John walked into Concord Public Library with a magazine that was 48,220 days overdue — a September 1894 issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine that had been sitting in his house for decades. Under the library's theoretical…...

14+ hour, 44+ min ago   (274+ words) Boylston isn't alone this month. Southbridge, Abington, and Ayer have each announced they will stop using Flock's license-plate-reading cameras, the station reported, as Massachusetts communities and states across the country reconsider their relationships with the technology. Some towns have found…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (265+ words) According to a U.S. Congress hearing record, ICE's December 2006 Operation Wagon Train involved more than 1,000 agents and about 1,300 arrests at six worksite locations. ICE Health Service Corps provides medical services to detained people. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (311+ words) El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico will headline a free block party Saturday from 3 to 7 p.m. at Summer Street Plaza in Downtown Crossing. The program will also feature DJ ArmandoTheTruth and Johnny Giraldo of Salsa y Control, according to Embrace Boston....

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (276+ words) Hannah Selinger, a Massachusetts-based instant USA Today bestselling author, wrote Valley of the Moms, a domestic thriller published through Little, Brown and Company in June 2026 that drew narrative inspiration from Parent Teacher Organization disputes in suburban Hamilton, Massachusetts, according to…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (361+ words) Broomfield-based Quantinuum lands a $100 million federal CHIPS Act award and gives the U.S. government an equity stake in the deal. A quantum computing company based in Broomfield, Colorado just cut a deal with Washington that hands the federal government a direct…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (422+ words) Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll framed the shift as a direct economic boost for the region. “Cleaner water is creating more opportunity for people who depend on shellfishing,” she said, adding that shellfishing supports families, small businesses and working waterfronts across…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (88+ words) For now, the split-screen is stark — a Dallas arena built around six-figure fundraising packages and presidential star power, and two Massachusetts nominees betting that door-knocking and local messaging will matter more to unenrolled voters than a night on stage with…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (151+ words) Pizza Roma had operated in Watertown for years before its closure. The shop served Sicilian slices. A Portnoy review of the pizzeria is also referenced in the available material, without a rating, date, or pizza description. The storefront sits on…...