Mike Casciere was not the first person to cross the line in Monday’s 128th Boston Marathon. He didn’t place second or third or even fourth. He wasn’t in the top 10,000 finishers. By the time Casciere, ...

Boston magazine was just a few years old, and on the cover that month, a story about why your mail is late, accompanied by a picture of a randy postman oogling a Playboy on somebody’s stoop. At the ...

Boston have undergone a lot of lineup changes over the course of the band's 37-year history, but their sound has always remained more or less the same, with very few concessions to current trends. As ...

A Boston man was granted a new trial by the Massachusetts Appeals Court Wednesday in connection with a 1974 murder on a Roxbury street because the judge who oversaw his trial 47 years ago misused the ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Published in the Boston ...

BOSTON — It took 30 years for Boston police to get a conviction in the death of Carlos Matos, a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the head with a high-powered rifle as he played in a city park. Now, ...

BOSTON (AP) — It took 30 years for Boston police to get a conviction in the death of Carlos Matos, a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the head with a high-powered rifle as he played in a city park. Now ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on April 24, 2024. Find that audio here. Host Tiziana Dearing speaks with best-selling author Dennis Lehane about his new novel "Small Mercies." The book ...

In 1970s Boston, schools were separate and deeply unequal. Learn more Nov. 15 & 22 on PBS. The Supreme Court outlawed school segregation in 1954, yet two decades later, many children still attended ...

And when rocks and jeers greeted some of the children, Boston’s image was scarred forever. It wasn’t the whole story of day one of school desegregation, 40 years ago, or fair to the many not motivated ...