Eli Rosenberg

For those who keep score, three stolen scores has the Boston music community rocked. “It was a catastrophe,” Alfonso Piacentini, assistant conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, said Tuesday. “That moment was just catastrophic.” This all started on Nov. 5, when Philharmonic Conductor Benjamin Zander’s car was stolen from in front of his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some of his belongings…

Problems have rebounded at Mass. and Cass following Boston’s efforts to improve the condition of the area. Domingos DaRosa is running out of patience. The community activist says he is exhausted from the daily battle of keeping nearby Clifford Park clean. “I have found loaded needles, I have found bags of different types of drugs, from crystal meth, to a…

Trash day in Boston is always a busy day. But now, among all the trash, the city sees opportunity. “We the city of Boston are chasing a very ambitious goal to reduce waste by 80 percent by 2035 and to do that we have to very seriously think about food waste,” said Theresa Savarese, zero waste direct…

Rising costs are complicating matters for many restaurants still working to recover from the pandemic. At Vico’s Restaurant in Norwood, Massachusetts, owner Vincenzo Loffredo is feeling the heat. “Last couple of years have been a little hard,” Loffredo said. First came the pandemic, and all the challenges that came with it for the restaurant industry. Now, Loffredo says he is…

It may be cool and rainy out here in early April, but summer camps across New England report they are filling up fast. “There seems to be quite an interest in camps this summer,” Julie Bernson of the Trustees of Reservations said Wednesday. The Trustees run nine camps, including the Chestnut Hill Fa…

Firefighters returned to a multi-family home in Lynn, Massachusetts early Sunday morning to manage billowing smoke after the home was destroyed by a fire on Saturday. Several people are without a home after flames completely engulfing the 2.5-story wood-framed residential building on Broadway and sparking a brush fire in the woods behind it that encompassed multiple acres. The house fire…

Comedian Chris Rock briefly addressed being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars Sunday during his show Wednesday at The Wilbur Theatre in Boston.

Boston police say they have made an arrest in connection with a fatal stabbing of a U.S. Marine outside a bar in downtown Boston near Faneuil Hall over the weekend. The suspect, identified Monday as Alvaro Omar Larrama, 39, of East Boston, turned himself in to police on Monday and is expected to arraigned on a murder charge in Boston…

Maureen Regan says it happened without warning. She was driving on Route 24 after a dentist appointment when her car was hit by a piece of ice from a passing box truck “I swear, instantly, it hit the underpass, the whole thing came on my windshield, and boom,” Regan said. “Smashed!” She took photos …

The agency, caught between groups that are skeptical of its push for more safety measures and others who want to see it regulate covid safety more forcefully, said it would go forward with a rule for healthcare facilities that might not be done by the end of the year.

The report is a snapshot of the economy from the earlier part of December, before the omicron surge had begun in force.

The number of workers quitting in November is up from the 4.2 million who left or changed jobs in October and surpassed the previous record of 4.4 million in September.

In an interview with The Washington Post, the labor secretary lamented how politicized vaccines and other vaccine measures have become.

The two rulings, made on consecutive days by Trump-appointed judges, amount to yet another blow to the Biden administration’s work to increase safety through vaccination.

Firefighters and police officers rushed to Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood Thursday night after two cars collided, leaving one on its roof and the other on fire. Boston police say they received a call shortly after 9 p.m. for a crash involving two cars, with a rollover, on Cummins Highway and Harvard Street. Video from the scene shows that damage to both…

Rising covid cases, problems finding child care and better wages elsewhere have all prompted a record number of Americans to quit their jobs

The court, composed of two judges nominated by former President Trump and one judge nominated by Reagan, said there was cause to believe there were grave legal issues with the rule.

Federal officials said the policy would preempt any state efforts to limit its impact. Conservative governors and attorneys general have vowed to fight the policy in court.

The labor market had shown signs of snapping back quickly earlier this year, but it softened in the late summer amid fears about a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic. Washington’s political leaders are split over how much assistance to offer the economy at this stage in the recovery.

The recalcitrance means large numbers of health-care workers could face dismissals or unpaid leaves of absence in the state, exacerbating labor shortage issues.