Dugan Arnett

A great heave-ho? More like ho-hum

Phone calls, billboards, nonstop TV ads and social media campaigns. Under assault by presidential candidates desperate for a win in the Hawkeye state, the famous politeness and hospitality of Iowans is being tested.

Michael Taylor, a Harvard resident who became an international curiosity after reportedly orchestrating the brazen escape of former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn from Japan last month, is now facing international criminal charges.

On the list of things the coronavirus pandemic has stolen, there may be nothing harsher than the ability to gather and say goodbye to a lost loved one.

The machine — which Partners HealthCare paid to bring to the Boston area in April — has been criticized by health care workers and government watchdogs, with one group saying it treats nurses “like guinea pigs in an experiment.”

The move represented an about-face for the restaurant following the Sunday-night firing of a bartender.

Opening Day musings are not terribly apt when summer is entering the back-nine and fans are not, in fact, allowed to set foot inside inside the ballpark.

Activists said Baker’s decision had the potential both to stoke tensions and discourage would-be protesters from taking part in peaceful demonstrations.

The virus still lurks, but with beautiful fall weather, people are out and about again.

In hockey-hungry Massachusetts, where tens of thousands annually take part in the sport, families on Friday greeted the news with a keen sense of frustration.

A growing chorus of medical experts is sounding the alarm on a nationwide mask mandate, calling such a move a necessary step to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Spontaneous celebrations popped up around the region after Joe Biden was declared the winner.

This week may go down as the one in which all your friends and family became eligible for vaccination as the state expanded its guidelines to include more residents.

Attorneys for Juston Root’s family say video footage shows one of the officers who fired on Root was wearing a body camera. That officer told investigators he wasn’t.

Experts say domestic abuse within policing is vastly underreported and often overlooked by those in power.

A New Hampshire man was taken into custody after a car stop in Connecticut.

“Talk of the neighborhood?” said Shannon Dunican, who lives next door to the home raided weeks ago by federal agents. “It’s the talk of the town.”

Ana Walshe told Metropolitan Police in Washington, D.C., that a man threatened her during a telephone call and said “he was going to kill (her) and her friend,” according to a police report.

The shooting sent residents into a multiday lockdown and obliterated any assumptions that a place like this — calm, quiet, removed from big-city crowds — was immune to this kind of violence.

Kevin Berner told Braintree police that a nude photo of his 12-year-old son was circulating among other schoolchildren. Berner and his wife have been on a journey since, fighting for accountability.