The demonstrations, expected to continue through the weekend, came as the Justice Department said it would conduct a civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti.

Laura Vozzella covered the General Assembly for more than a decade before she left The Washington Post. She’ll spend her first post-retirement legislative session working for Sen. Bill Stanley.

Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle was not flying his own jet when it crashed last month, killing him and six others, according to a Friday report from investigators. The preliminary report from the ...

Shortstop Zach Neto, who emerged as the best player of the Angels’ young core, and first baseman Nolan Schanuel are fixtures ...

The Hingham/Hull MBTA ferry has had to cancel most trips in and out of Hingham for the rest of this week due to ice in the Shipyard terminal.