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Transportation Security Administration officers at Boston's Logan International Airport are alleging that a program intended to help flag possible terrorists based on passengers' mannerisms has led to rampant racial profiling, a newspaper reported Saturday.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says a fast food chain’s opposition to gay marriage is none of “the government’s business.” Bloomberg said Friday that he strongly disagrees with the mayors of Boston, Chicago and San Francisco in that regard. Chick-fil-A’s (chihk-fih-LAYZ’) opposition to gay marriage has touched off a national furor. Gay rights groups have called for a boycott and the three mayors have said Chick-fil-A was not welcome in their cities.

A cat from Boston in America fell from a window 19 storeys high and amazingly survived!

The Boston Archdiocese says the six-figure salaries paid to a growing number of church employees are commensurate with their talents and work duties.

A domestic dispute was likely at the root of a bomb scare that forced a Boston-to-Chicago flight carrying 83 passengers to land in Buffalo on Monday, but the FBI says there was never a real threat.

Severe turbulence contributed to injuries aboard two flights that landed in Boston, authorities said Sunday.

A strong earthquake rattled the East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well-known buildings in the nation's capital and sending scared office workers into the streets.

Two Delta Airlines passenger planes collided on the runway at Boston's Logan International Airport on Thursday, causing minor damage, an airport spokesman said.

On a chilly evening in February, a commuter train bound for Worcester, Mass., broke down outside Boston, transforming passengers' usual 80-minute commute into a four-hour nightmare.

A building at Boston College has been evacuated after reports of a chemical explosion inside a classroom.