Boston

The medical dangers of heat are real. But people often ignore public heat alerts, or don't know how vulnerable they are. A new alert system prompts clinicians to talk about heat with patients.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command and the FBI-Boston Division interrogated the wrong person during a training exercise on Tuesday: an airline pilot who was asleep at the time, per local media.

The suspect was arrested at the Boston Logan International Airport after allegedly tampering with a side door and the emergency slide, and later allegedly lunged at a flight attendant.

A new public art monument dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King was unveiled Friday. It immediately drew consternation and jeers as well as plaudits.

Police say they discovered "what appeared to be a human fetus or infant" and additional remains at an apartment in South Boston. An autopsy has revealed four infants: two female and two male.

Federal officials are examining whether the employee who reported an explosion at Northeastern University may have lied to investigators and staged the incident, law enforcement officials said.

Biden announced many of what he calls "cancer moonshot" goals in February. On Monday he laid out some updates in a speech that marked 60 years since Kennedy gave his iconic moonshot speech.

More than seven decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lived, studied and preached in Boston, the city will soon have a memorial honoring him and Coretta Scott King, who met each other there.

Adams' job now is to lead the city out of the effects of the pandemic, historic job losses, skyrocketing housing prices, and a broke transportation system.