Mike Casciere was not the first person to cross the line in Monday’s 128th Boston Marathon. He didn’t place second or third or even fourth. He wasn’t in the top 10,000 finishers. By the time Casciere, ...

Boston magazine was just a few years old, and on the cover that month, a story about why your mail is late, accompanied by a picture of a randy postman oogling a Playboy on somebody’s stoop. At the ...

A Boston man was granted a new trial by the Massachusetts Appeals Court Wednesday in connection with a 1974 murder on a Roxbury street because the judge who oversaw his trial 47 years ago misused the ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Published in the Boston ...

BOSTON (AP) — It took 30 years for Boston police to get a conviction in the death of Carlos Matos, a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the head with a high-powered rifle as he played in a city park. Now ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on April 24, 2024. Find that audio here. Host Tiziana Dearing speaks with best-selling author Dennis Lehane about his new novel "Small Mercies." The book ...

Crime ‘Torso Killer’ pleads guilty in 1974 cold-case murders Richard Cottingham’s pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing 17-year-old Mary Ann Pryor and 16-year-old Lorraine Marie Kelly in August 1974. In ...

When people start gathering outside a bar before 5 o'clock, it's a sign of either a really choice watering hole or really thirsty locals. Not [...] read more» ...

A flash of humanity, a moment’s hesitation. That’s all it took. Orlando Bagwell had given his attackers an opening, and they’d pounced. Now he lay crumpled on a South Boston street, sure he was about ...

The Boston Red Sox have been the last destination of players with varying degrees of skills. A few became members of the Baseball Hall of Fame and others may stir a memory. Here are a few. Jul 23, ...