In the spirit of all things ghoulish and spooky '-'- and to shatter a Guinness World Record '-'- hundreds of Bostonians came out to carve pumpkins at the Camp Sunshine Pumpkin Festival.

Nearly 700 Allston-Brighton residents put down their animosities and picked up hot dog buns at the 18th annual Community Partnership Day at Harvard stadium Saturday.

Though recent televised debates and Sarah Palin impersonators may pull some otherwise inactive voters into the political fray, college students citywide have been relinquishing their sleep, school work and social lives for months to be active participants in this historical election.

The Boston University Bridge that connects Cambridge and Boston will undergo three years of rehabilitative construction as part of Gov. Deval Patrick's Accelerated Bridge Initiative, Department of Conservation and Recreation officials said.

An Israeli academic said it is out of the question to allow Iran to hold nuclear arms without complete transparency and compliance with international inspections in a measured speech at Boston College Thursday night.

The Boston City Council discussed an ordinance that would prohibit the transport of machetes in the city of Boston at a meeting thursday afternoon, addressing what they say has become a real threat.

A Harvard University professor wants religious separation out of the 2008 election.

Boston-area colleges continue to fund developing sustainable initiatives to make their campuses greener and more cost-effective, despite tightening budgets, rising utility costs and a shaky economy.

A proposed City Council ordinance would require waste haulers to provide recycling services to all Boston businesses, cutting back on waste around the city, but some opponents of the proposal say small businesses could be hurt by the regulation.

Officers responded to a call for assault in Brighton at 11:39 p.m. Oct. 3. Officers spoke with a woman who said she got in an argument with a man over laundry.

A crumbling economy and a rising number of uninsured U.S. citizens may push cultural issues onto the back burner in the 2008 election, journalists said.

If you put lipstick on a pig, it'll still be a pig, but if you put a pig on a person, it just offends people.