Nine people were wounded Thursday evening in Rhode Island’s capital in what police there believe to be the largest shooting in city history. Of the nine, three had serious injuries and were “maybe critical,” Providence Police Chief Col. Hugh T. Clements told reporters at the scene. He said multiple guns were used and it involved an “ongoing feud” involving...

Boston is marking the 100th anniversary of its most peculiar disaster — the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. Exactly a century ago Tuesday, a massive wave of 2.3 million gallons of molasses unleashed by a ruptured storage tank came crashing through the city’s North End, obliterating everything in its path.