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They call him Mr. Christmas, and it is not just because of the colorfully lighted display of 265 carved and painted plastic foam Santas, elves, and manger scenes that draw thousands of visitors to his front yard each holiday season....

Paul Dobbins and Tollef Olson admit they still have a kink in their scheme to use seaweed to revolutionize American eating habits, clean the environment, lower the federal trade deficit and make themselves fabulously rich. Call it the yuck factor....

An accounting clerk in a court probation department managed to steal $2 million in three years, Massachusetts prosecutors say. Marie Morey, 38, pleaded innocent Thursday to embezzlement, The Boston Globe reported...Even though the Lawrence District Court takes in only $2.4...

An intense manhunt was under way last night for an apparent stalker who broke into a house and shot a nurse he had threatened before, police told the Herald News of Fall River. The woman was shot in the arm...

For 48 minutes and nearly all of one overtime, Newton-Conover and Salisbury played to a draw Friday. On fourth-and-goal on the 2, the Red Devils stopped Hornets quarterback John Knox less than a yard short of the game-tying score to...

C am Atkinson scored twice, Pat Mullane added two assists and goalie Parker Milner held off a late UMass surge to lead Boston College past the Minutemen, 3-1, last night in a Hockey East game at the Mullins Center in...

That’s what the respective coaches did at their own teams following last night’s historic 3-3 Hockey East tie between Boston University and Vermont. While the 5,009 fans on hand at Agganis Arena witnessed the first time in its 89-year hockey...

Wreaths Across America Program to Adorn 151,000 Veteran Graves Friday, December 04, 2009   Morrill Worcester, center, with Andrea Shea King at Arlington National Cemetery in December 2007. Morrill Worcester, center, with Andrea Shea King at Arlington National Cemetery in...

An alternative chemical plant proposed in Lake Providence has qualified for a $50 million Department of Energy grant, the federal agency said Friday. Myriant Technologies LLC, based in Quincy, Mass., will begin building the project early next year in Lake...

Quincy woman whose purse got stuck between the doors of a train was injured as the train kept moving...The woman, not wanting to let go of the bag, stayed with it until she fell on the side of the track,...