LOCAL NEWS

Advantage: Tito Jackson

Waging an aggressive, well-staffed campaign, Tito Jackson won a landslide victory in the preliminary balloting for the District 7 City Council seat vacated by Chuck Turner. More »

Officer still awaiting his day in court

After 20 years as a Massachusetts court officer, Thomas Flint is still waiting for his own day in court. More »

The elite serve the homeless at Harvard shelter

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - As darkness falls on Harvard Square, students wrapped tight against the freezing cold hustle down icy, red-brick sidewalks and past snow banks, eager to reach the warmth of dorms and libraries. More »

Panel: Don't consolidate Mass. probation, parole

A task force appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to review the state's troubled Probation Department is rejecting key proposals made by Gov. Deval Patrick and House Speaker Robert DeLeo. More »

Mass. gov. unveils plan to curb health care costs

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick unveiled legislation last week he says will rein in spiraling insurance costs by setting boundaries on the health care market. More »

Award-winning film producer Aloyce Beth Deare dies in tragic house fire

Aloyce Beth Deare, the former producer of WGBH's "Say Brother," died in a four-alarm blaze that destroyed her Newton Corner home early Monday morning. Stricken with cancer, the Emmy award-winning Deare, 63, recently had taken time off as an English professor at Bunker Hill Community College. More »

US banker to match immigrants' college savings

CHELSEA - It started with an immigration raid four years ago. From his Melrose home, Bob Hildreth watched the aftermath of federal immigration agents storming a New Bedford, Massachusetts, leather factory and netting 350 suspected illegal immigrant workers from Guatemala and El Salvador. More »