LOCAL NEWS

Pressley launches grassroots campaign

In an off-year city council race where city-wide turnout will likely be below 20 percent of registered voters, at-large City Councilor Ayanna Pressley is banking on raising turnout in some of the city's lowest-voting communities. More »

Peace keeping program in Roxbury's H-Block

Does anybody remember Jahmol Norfleet? He was from the section of Roxbury known as H-Block, a friendly young man who got caught up in the gang life, and was sentenced to a year in prison when a gun fell out of his book bag at school. More »

Patrick signs court hiring overhaul bill

Gov. Deval Patrick signed a sweeping overhaul of the state's court system last Thursday, even as he faulted lawmakers for not adopting one of his key proposals and tweaked the courts for pushing to add extra jobs in the bill. More »

BSC considering relocating some schools

The Boston School Committee (BSC) received a proposal last month that included the relocation of two Boston high schools, the opening of two new elementary, in-district charter school and the expansion of seats at the Eliot Elementary School in the North End. More »

Boston post office named for Marine killed in Iraq

A post office in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston has been named for a local Marine who was killed in Iraq. More »

Windfall for Massachusetts hospitals is questioned

WASHINGTON - An obscure provision tucked into the federal health care law has turned into a jackpot for Massachusetts hospitals, but officials in other states are upset because the money will come from their hospitals. More »

Mass. leaders examining possible debt deal fallout

Massachusetts officials are trying to gauge the fallout from last week's budget-cutting debt deal in Washington, warning the state's coffers and key industries like defense manufacturers and medical researchers could feel the brunt of any cuts. More »

MBTA manager to be new Mass. transportation chief

Gov. Deval Patrick last week named Richard Davey, the general manager of the MBTA, to fill the state's top transportation job, putting him at the helm of a sprawling bureaucracy that Patrick said remained "overburdened" with debt from the Big Dig project. More »