Mary Markos

The Town of Needham is showing support for astronaut Sunita Williams. The Needham native has been stuck on the International Space Station for almost six months.

Students in Gloucester, Massachusetts, will be back in class Monday, but contract negotiations continue in Beverly and Marblehead.

Firefighters battled a large blaze in a 100-year-old building in Brockton, Massachusetts, Saturday night.

One hundred years after the Boston Bruins won their first NHL game against the Montreal Maroons, B's fans packed the TD Garden Sunday ready for the team to do it again in their special Centennial Game against the Canadiens.

Concussion experts say that brain injuries can be very severe, even if its not physically recognizable, and the amount of recovery can vary.

Public schools across Massachusetts already have five snow days built into their 180-day calendar year - but how do superintendents decide when to make the call?

Hundreds of people celebrated the liberation of Syria in Boston’s Copley Square Sunday afternoon. The steps were packed with people singing, dancing and waving the Syrian flag to celebrate their nation’s freedom, a revolutionary moment. People in the crowd were happy after learning of the end of the Assad family’s regime of more than a half a century. Many local…

The strong smell of gas is wafting from Chelsea and East Boston to Winthrop, but where exactly it's coming from is an aromatic mystery.

State authorities say they are aware and monitoring the situation, but that is not exactly comforting to people who have seen these drones hovering over their homes.

A little boy’s Christmas gift was swiped from his family’s front porch in the South End, and the family says a replacement won’t make it in time for the holiday. According to a police report, a thief snagged a package off the steps of a West Broadway home around 10:45 a.m. Monday. Inside the package was a $150 GABB watch,…