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Jurors who told the judge Monday they were deadlocked returned guilty verdicts on both counts Tuesday. Farwell faces a mandatory life sentence.
In a video posted Friday, the Boston congresswoman said voters want Democrats to be "the fighters in the room" and asked why the party didn't pass voting rights and policing bills when it last held power.
The 11,000-square-foot park, built by the nonprofit Boston Food Forest Coalition with city support, has fruit trees, edible shrubs and raised beds for neighbors to plant and harvest.
The rider was badly hurt and died at a Brockton hospital. His name has not been released, and investigators have not said what caused the crash.
Mayor Michelle Wu's plan would let developers spread affordable housing payments over seven installments, lower a condominium fee and freeze commercial linkage fees through 2027. City officials say high interest rates and construction costs have slowed building.
Lisa Schatz told the committee that critics of a teacher hiring decision have been vilified and that concerns about harassment of Jewish students are being drowned out by arguments over Israel.
Speaker after speaker on Monday cited privacy and a case in which a police detective is accused of misusing the system. The council plans to vote Dec. 1 on a nonbinding resolution asking the mayor to halt the program.
Councilors backed a letter to Beacon Hill questioning a long-term, no-bid lease for the city-owned land, as Council President Mahoney warned one member he could be asked to leave.
Supporters urged fair treatment and spoke about Islamophobia, while one resident asked for a delay; committee members said state law confines their review to educational standards.
A former Social Security fraud prosecutor, the office's appellate chief and its deputy administrative officer were honored at a ceremony in Washington, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said.
The U.S. attorney's office in Boston says scammers who met victims on dating sites and Facebook steered them into fake investment platforms. It is trying to recover Tether valued at about $456,602.
The six governors told congressional appropriations leaders that rising heating oil prices will erode federal heating assistance this winter. They asked for the increase through either the annual budget or an emergency appropriation.
The new Boston EMS station on Drydock Avenue is meant to put ambulances closer to a fast-growing neighborhood where, the department's chief said, emergency calls have doubled over the past decade.
Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan ruled a second trial would not violate Clancy's protection against double jeopardy. He also turned down a defense request to look into the holdout juror and a prosecution request for a gag order.
The Essex County district attorney's office identified the man as Dr. Daniel Arnett, 44, of Beverly. Officials said no foul play is suspected.
State police called in a hazardous-materials team over a possible leak, and highway closures near the Holden line were still in effect the next morning.
The office and the State Police detectives assigned to it will collect nonperishable food at the Wilbraham Big Y on Nov. 21 for the annual drive benefiting Open Pantry Community Services.
Federal prosecutors say Lamar Cook understated his income and household to collect food aid while awaiting trial in a Hampden County cocaine and gun case. A new indictment adds a second wire fraud charge.
Police say an argument at River Green Park ended with a man getting a semiautomatic rifle from his car and firing once. No one was injured.
George Gordon's "We Who Would Bear Our Own Witness" took best in show among adults in the seventh Boston edition of the National Arts Program exhibit, which is free to visit through Nov. 20.
A treated discharge at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's Prison Point facility lasted nearly four hours, prompting the Boston Public Health Commission to advise people to stay out of the water for 48 hours.
After rejecting a 0.5% target and a 3.28% target, the committee voted unanimously to give the town and both school budgets the same 1.05% operating guideline.
At a rare joint workshop, town and school leaders heard that rising health, pension and school costs are outpacing revenue, and some members said voters may have to decide between an override and deep service cuts.
As much as 6 inches of rain fell on parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, swamping a Falmouth gas station and closing streets from New Bedford to Bourne.