14+ hour, 54+ min ago   (223+ words) The grants include support for school reconstruction, according to The Boston Globe. Food relief is among the fund's priorities, while another $25,000 will fund mental health support for residents of Caracas and La Guaira, two of the regions hit hardest by…...

15+ hour, 33+ min ago   (438+ words) Thirty-four years after Susan Taraskiewicz was beaten and stabbed to death, her killer has never been named, charged or caught. The Northwest Airlines ramp supervisor vanished during a break from her overnight shift at Logan Airport, and her family and…...

1+ day, 10+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 13+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (213+ words) Public frustration hasn't stayed purely bureaucratic. A Facebook post sought to identify a suspect and seek a charge in a Flock-camera incident, according to Facebook. The incident underscored how contentious the cameras had become locally. Still, Waltham's retreat has unfolded…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (406+ words) A capped landfill off Kendall Pond Road near Route 93 is now producing electricity for the Town of Derry. Officials held a ribbon-cutting on September 1 for the 2.25-megawatt Derry Landfill Solar array, which will supply electricity for municipal needs, including waste…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (275+ words) A man in his 60s from Worcester County has become Massachusetts' seventh human case of West Nile virus this year, according to health officials. All six prior cases this season involved residents exposed in Middlesex and Suffolk counties. Only Dukes and…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (421+ words) J.T. Magen & Co. and Extell Development are proposing 1,945 homes across roughly 1.8 million square feet of residential and retail space at 314-420 Dorchester Ave., where Dorchester Avenue splits from Old Colony Avenue in South Boston. The proposal follows the developers' $75 million winning bid…...

2+ day, 7+ 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…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (225+ words) That web page was not a last-minute addition. The City of Newton launched a dedicated online portal for immigrant rights and resources in August, according to the Newton Beacon, which reported on the page and on City Council discussions. Thursday's…...