Shouts of 'Shame on The New York Times' and 'Save The Globe' echoed across Faneuil Hall Friday afternoon as hundreds of Boston Globe employees and readers rallied to save their paper.

Mayor Thomas Menino confirmed Wednesday that he has joined the 2009 Boston mayoral race for what could potentially be his fifth term in office.

The Boston City Council charged the Boston Redevelopment Authority Wednesday with the task of accounting for funds that may have been lost or excessively spent, hindering the BRA from completing its projects around the city.

When Philip Markoff, the alleged 'Craigslist killer,' entered Courtroom 10 in Boston Municipal Court Tuesday morning for his arraignment, silence fell.

The $27.4 billion proposed state budget put forth Thursday by the Massachusetts House Ways and Means committee would rely on steep program cuts rather than tax increases or emergency funds to overcome the deficit, a decision that some legislators said is detrimental to local municipalities and interest groups who rely on state aid for funds.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will officially announce his fifth candidacy in the upcoming mayoral race Wednesday, an anonymous member of Menino's staff told The Boston Globe Tuesday night.

The Northeastern University community was asked to take extra caution Thursday after the university sent out an alert that several students had displayed symptoms consistent with the mumps.

A not guilty plea was entered on behalf of Philip Markoff, the second-year Boston University' School of Medicine student arrested Monday evening on charges of murder, kidnapping and armed robbery, at his arraignment at Boston Municipal Court Tuesday morning.

A Boston University student was arrested Monday evening and charged with the murder of a 26-year-old woman April 14, as well as a separate armed robbery and kidnapping of another woman just days before. The name 'Craigslist killer' has been coined for the suspect by the media because both victims had advertised services on Craigslist.

The debate over whether two Emerson College professors were denied tenure due to their race has continued to shed light on the tenure process in schools, administrators said.

Spectators and runners, some veterans and some new to Marathon Monday, said they came out to the streets of Boston for the competition and the experience of being there.

Officers responded to a report of a Boston College student who had fallen from a second floor porch on 45 Radnor Road at 12:46 a.m. April 17. The victim was bleeding from his elbow and head.