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Teams, athletes and coaches from across the country honored the 20th anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday.

The Boston College hockey star and former NHL player Jimmy Hayes has died

A Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging her boyfriend to take his life has been arraigned. Twenty-one-year-old Inyoung You, a South Korean national, appeared before a judge at Suffolk Superior Court Friday morning where a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf. Prosecutors say You sent Alexander Urtula, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, more than...

A Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging her boyfriend to take his life has been arraigned. Twenty-one-year-old Inyoung You, a South Korean national, appeared before a judge at Suffolk Superior Court Friday morning where a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf. Prosecutors say You sent Alexander Urtula, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, more than...

Authorities have determined that Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old granddaughter of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, died of an accidental drug overdose. The Chief Medical Examiner’s office concluded in its report that her cause of death was “acute methadone and ethanol toxicity in combination with other prescription medications,” Michael O’Keefe, district attorney for the Cape and Islands, said in...

A former Boston College student has been indicted in connection with the suicide of her boyfriend, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins announced on Monday. Inyoung You, 21, of South Korea, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of 22-year-old Alexander Urtula, who was also a student at Boston College.

Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy is receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump at the White House Thursday. Cousy, 91, was expected to receive the nation’s highest civilian award during a ceremony at the White House Thursday afternoon.

Mourners said their final goodbyes Monday to Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy who died last week on Cape Cod at the age of 22. The mass for Kennedy Hill was held at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville Monday morning, four days after she was found unresponsive at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

The crash ended a young woman’s life, and with it, a man’s White House dreams. U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s Oldsmobile sedan veered off a narrow bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, an extension of the resort island of Martha’s Vineyard off the Massachusetts coast, and plunged into a moonlit pond 50 years ago Thursday. His passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne,...

Brooks Orpik called it a career Tuesday after 15 bruising NHL seasons in which he established himself as a big-hitting, shutdown defenseman and won the Stanley Cup twice.

It was late at night and a group of Jewish teenagers were on a walk around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Massachusetts. Boston College Police Officer Carl Mascioli was on patrol on May 17, the night that the four teens saved a man with an anti-Semitic tattoo in Chestnut Hill.

Nearly 400 young men at Morehouse College learned on Sunday that their commencement speaker — billionaire investor Robert F. Smith — would pay off their student loans. It will take years, potentially decades, to obtain a full picture of how graduating debt-free shaped the lives of these students at the historically black college in Atlanta. In the meantime, a slew...

The top-ranked Crimson Tide and No. 2 Tigers both had double-digit victories in their semifinal games Saturday, setting up what has quickly become an annual postseason meeting. They will meet in the College Football Playoff for the fourth consecutive year, the third time in the championship game. And the winner this time will become the first 15-0 FBS champion. Alabama-Clemson...

It’s early in a college basketball game and Team A, playing methodically and using up most of the 30-second shot clock, falls behind 10-6. Scattered around the bleachers, several fans staring at their smartphones celebrate silently: they have bet on Team B to be the first to reach 10 points and even promised two Team A starters a cut of...

A Buffalo native’s 25-year struggle for the recognition he knew in his heart ended in Paxton, Mass., Tuesday afternoon when a DNA test confirmed that his father is a now-deceased priest born in Lowell and buried in Tewksbury.

William Gross made history Monday when he was sworn in as Boston’s first black police commissioner. During his speech at Morning Star Baptist Church in the city’s Mattapan neighborhood, of which his mother was a longtime member, Gross reflected on the historic nature of him occupying the new role.

A college student from Boston was arrested last month after allegedly stealing at least $2 million in cryptocurrency and hacking phones owned by tech executives, according to prosecutors in California. Joel Ortiz, 20, of Allston was ordered held on $1 million bail following his arraignment on 28 counts of grand theft, computer hacking and identity theft in the wake of his July 12 arrest.