Orange cone blues: Harvard Square construction a headache for many

Annual state government payments to two Boston-area teaching hospitals are increasingly at the epicenter of a local and national firestorm over the affordability of Massachusetts's health insurance access laws.

A quiet residential street transformed into a scene straight out of an action thriller Saturday night as a pickup truck zoomed down Hillside Avenue in reverse after a man tried to outrun the truck driver barreling down on him.

Police busted a Somerville dealer for allegedly hawking cocaine near the King Open School Thursday evening.

Ten current and former Harvard students are “putting on a show” this Friday and Saturday nights to raise funds for a friend’s kidney transplant. The two-hour program of cabaret tunes from “Chicago,” “Hairspray,” “La Cage aux Folles” and other hit musicals is the brainchild of Lauren LaRosa and Harvard instructor Pamela Murray.