About 3.5 million people are likely to experience homelessness in a given year, and about 1.4 million of those individuals sleeping on streets will be children, according to a 2007 National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.

Armed with Gov. Deval Patrick's budget request to allow cities to replace police officers with civilian flaggers at construction sites on roads with speed limits under 45 miles per hour, Boston city councilors called a hearing to see how much the Hub could save over objections from officers who say the move would hurt public safety.

Police responded to a robbery around 11:33 p.m. Nov. 9. Upon arrival, police spoke to a Dominoes delivery man who said he had been beaten up and robbed by five to six men after making a delivery to a North Beacon Street apartment.

In an inflatable pool filled with gallons of lubricant, Tufts University student Theo Bunce got prepared for a one-minute, slippery wrestling match to promote save sex education '-'- and for new Facebook fodder.

Boston drivers may have noticed they are stopping at lights and refilling their tanks less and less now that the city has recalibrated traffic lights to prevent unnecessary idling.

He may be facing charges for breaking the law in cyberspace, but a Boston University student being sued for illegally downloading music online is basing his defense on a decidedly low-tech legal document: the U.S. Constitution.

For those tired of seeing women in Friday evening's mascara on Saturday morning clanking down Commonwealth Avenue in four-inch stilettos on their walks of shame, this night was for them.

Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol Johnson decided to nix her budget proposal that would have closed three Boston schools last week after parents, students and teachers vocally opposed it.

A caller reported that a woman who was not taking her medication was 'acting very moody' on the 15th floor of Warren Towers B Tower at 12:27 a.m. Oct. 23. The woman was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

After publishing the news in print each weekday for a century, The Christian Science Monitor announced last week it will discontinue its daily print newspaper in April and publish almost exclusively online, making it the first prominent national newspaper to make the transition from paper to Internet.

Tables covered in empty beer bottles and drink glasses at Liir's Pub reflected the crushed hopes of the Massachusetts Republican Party Tuesday night.

Poets use words to express their inner thoughts and emotions, but often their physical appearances are hidden. Israeli artist Zvi Lachman, famous for drawing poets' faces, said his mission is to give new perspective to the written word with his paintings.