A woman was charged with attempted homicide in a Pittsburgh stabbing that critically injured former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who is also facing a charge, police said. Pryor was taken to the hospital just after 4:30 a.m. Saturday following a dispute with “mutual combatants” in an apartment on the city’s North Side, police said. Allegheny County prosecutors and police...

Alphabet’s board of directors has opened an investigation into how executives handled claims of sexual harassment and other misconduct, including behavior of Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, who has been accused of having relationships with employees. The board has formed an independent subcommittee to look into the issues and has hired a law firm to assist with the investigation, according...

Rep. Joe Kennedy is running for the U.S. Senate seat of fellow Democrat Ed Markey. Kennedy spoke about his strategy in announcing his primary challenge, why it’s important when the primary election is held and more.

Service on MBTA Red Line trains was partially suspended due to police activity at Andrew Station Friday, the agency said. Shuttle buses replaced trains between Park Street and JFK/UMass for about an hour starting about 12:30 p.m.

A law enforcement official says investigators that examined the burned-out wreckage of a scuba diving boat haven’t been able to determine what ignited a fire that killed 34 people off the California coast, the Associated Press reported Friday.

The MBTA says its new Orange Line trains are out of service due to a door malfunction, even as regular service has resumed on the Red Line following months of repairs. The MBTA said Wednesday the new trains were taken out of service after a set of doors on one of them opened while traveling near Massachusetts Avenue Station Friday....

Three months after a Red Line train derailed causing significant damage and massive delays, regularly scheduled service has resumed, according to MBTA officials. The signal system between JFK/UMass and North Quincy was repaired over the weekend but crews finished testing it Wednesday.

The board that oversees judicial conduct in Massachusetts is investigating the Boston judge who came under scrutiny for the way he handled arraignments for counterprotesters at a “straight pride” parade.

The Democratic National Committee is increasing the polling and fundraising requirements for presidential candidates to qualify for the primary campaign’s fifth debate in November. But in a nod to the potential for late-surging campaigns, the increases are not as steep as those from the first and second debates during the summer to the third and fourth debates after Labor...

Police in Hull, Massachusetts said Monday they had charged multiple young people in connection with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti found at a park earlier this month. Authorities said a tipster allegedly saw the vandalism taking place at Fort Revere Park on Sept. 2 and provided cell phone images to authorities, helping identify the suspects.

Following an extensive investigation, MBTA officials now say a broken axle is to blame for a derailment on the Red Line back in June.

Tekara Capron and her son, 3-year-old Makai Simmons, spent the Labor Day holiday with her family in the Bahamas and weathered Hurricane Dorian as it ruined her mother’s home. Makai returned home to Florida with nightmares. “It’s just that when he’s asleep. He’s more afraid of darkness than usual,” his mother Tekara Capron told NBC News. Makai was still processing...

A preliminary report released Thursday on the Conception diving boat fire confirmed that all six crewmembers were asleep when flames started to engulf the vessel in the early morning hours off the Southern California coast, leaving 34 people dead.

For the second time in 10 days, a young minke whale has turned up dead along the Massachusetts coastline. The body of the male whale was found in the surf of the Humarock section of Scituate Monday afternoon.

The search for the final victim of a boat fire off the Southern California coast has been suspended until early next week because of gusty winds and rough seas.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will not run for president after exploring whether to do so earlier this year, he announced in a letter posted online early Friday. “My belief in the need to reform our two-party system has not wavered, but I have concluded that an independent campaign for the White House is not how I can best serve...

Picketing garbage collectors who entering the eighth day of their strike in Marshfield, Massachusetts, are getting support from town residents, who are taking out the trash on their own.

A former employee of the New England Patriots was among the nearly three dozen people killed in a boat fire off the coast of southern California early Monday morning. Marybeth Guiney, 51, of Santa Monica, was on the commercial scuba boat that erupted in flames off the coast near Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day, according to the Torrance Daily Breeze.