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A Lowell man held in a Russian prison for the last four years is now free.

Downtown Boston Gets Boost in Police Patrols and Anti-Theft Operations

Boston Globe sports reporter Alex Speier joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the team's transformation.

You can catch three different celestial events this month: a partial solar eclipse, the Perseids meteor shower and a near-full lunar eclipse. Here's when and how you can see each of them.

Jessie Colbert, who works for the statewide maternal mental health advocacy group Mind the Gap Coalition, is lobbying for a bill on Beacon Hill that would change how the criminal legal system treats new moms charged with crimes.

MBTA General Manager Phil Eng hopes to bring the MBTA into what's called a "state of good repair," where trains run fast, stations are clean and well-lit, and signals operate like clockwork. In the meantime, though, he — and T riders — must contend with a decades-long maintenance problems that continue to snarl commutes.

Massachusetts has seen dramatic rise in reported tick-borne diseases in the last three years, according to data from the state Department of Public Health. This year, there has been a spike in one particular illness known as alpha-gal syndrome, which has hit Martha's Vineyard especially hard.

Thousands signed a letter accusing Wu of slow-walking the transportation safety agenda she ran on. But the tragedy is also personal for the mayor. Gag once interned in Wu's old city council office.

Organizers of the Pan-Mass Challenge held this weekend hoped to raise 79 million dollars for cancer research and care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Nearly 65-hundred cyclists took part.

WBUR's All Things Considered host Lisa Mullins talks with comedian Jimmy Cash about elementary school gossip, sobriety and his journey to the comedy stage.