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With Kim Ng’s new appointment, she is now MLB’s highest-ranked woman.

New cars for Orange Line trains went into service Wednesday, in an expected boost for the embattled Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Gov. Charlie Baker and MBTA officials held a press conference at Wellington station in Medford to launch the six new cars.

Libraries are built for reading and research, and librarians are trained to help patrons find what they need. But staffers at San Diego city libraries are also coping with threats to their safety and occasional violence, according to court records and interviews. At least 16 city library department employees have asked judges for protection from unruly patrons, according to documents...

Shopping centers and malls across Massachusetts opened early to accommodate shoppers on the hunt for Black Friday deals.

Shopping centers and malls across Massachusetts opened early to accommodate shoppers on the hunt for Black Friday deals.

Malls across Massachusetts are open early to accommodate eager Black Friday shoppers.

In a lab in Lowell, Massachusetts, there is a belief in a better way to clean without using potentially dangerous chemicals. “There is still a perception that the stronger it smells, the better it works, the stronger the bleach, the more it will kill the germs,” Liz Harriman, deputy director of UMass Lowell’s Toxics Use Reduction Institute, said Thursday.

With the dangers surrounding cleaning chemicals at the forefront, researchers are working to make products safer.

A South Florida native who starred at both Miami’s Booker T. Washington High School and the University of Miami, Walton was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in 2018 before he was released after being arrested.

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority is looking into whether it has any control over the supply chains of one of its contractors, after an NBC News report revealed a Chinese company making MBTA subway cars was using a mineral sometimes mined by children.

The big day is finally here. The largest Starbucks in the world opened Friday in Chicago. The 35,000-square-foot Reserve Roastery has been under wraps since construction started a few years ago. No one knew what the inside of the “epic” five-floor space would look like in place of the iconic Crate and Barrel building at Michigan Avenue and Erie Street...

Are you ready for a peek inside the world’s largest Starbucks, opening Friday in Chicago?

A manager at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Burlington was killed by the fumes from a cleaning solution. A dozen others were sickened.

The MBTA gave the public a look Thursday at the new trains that will be used on the Red Line. The new cars are expected to debut in spring of 2020, the MBTA said. The first six are being tested at Cabot Yard in Boston.

Nationals fans swarmed the streets of Navy Yard after the team took the World Series trophy. News4’s Shomari Stone was all in on the celebration, chanting “baby shark” and singing “we are the champions” with fans at Mission.

Stephen Strasburg was voted MVP of the World Series following the Nationals’ 6-2 win over the Houston Astros in Game 7 on Wednesday night, the first title in the 51 seasons of the Washington/Montreal Expos franchise.

There is a new boss at Fenway Park as the Red Sox made it official: Chaim Bloom is the team’s new chief baseball officer.

Chaim Bloom, the new chief baseball officer for the Boston Red Sox, talks about his priorities, announces another back room move and addresses Red Sox Nation.

The Boston Bruins have placed forward David Krejci on injured reserve with an upper-body injury. Kreici has missed the past two games since he was hurt in the first period of a 4-2 win over Anaheim on Oct. 14. He has one assist this season. Bjork leads Providence of the AHL with three goals and five assists.

The rift between the NBA and China appeared to widen again Friday, as the fallout over Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong continued. A day after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Chinese officials wanted Morey fired, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry told reporters that no such demand was made by...