In two minutes, police were shouting over the radio for reinforcements as flames engulfed an apartment building and left seven people dead.
Kevin Cullen
Rescuers made a quick plunge into ever-growing dangerIt is the credo of people who run into burning buildings to help strangers: You save who you can, and you pray for those you can?t.
Thearan Sak lost his brother, his brother?s girlfriend, and three of the couple?s five children.
Investigators will review the alarm system in the Lowell building where seven people were killed in an early morning fire.
Community holds vigil to remember Lowell fire victimsMore than 300 people participated in a traditional Cambodian Buddhist mourning ritual.
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DAN SHAUGHNESSY
The Red Sox president answered a wide range of questions about the state of his team.
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With a 4-3 win on in the series finale, the Red Sox salvaged a split of the four-game set.
Experts believe the material, thought to be uranium, was ?low grade.?
Weekly poll
Mass. economy on the mend, but voters worry about their walletsEight in 10 poll respondents say their personal financial situation is about the same or worse than it was a year ago.
The Podium
Barbarity in the Middle East The murder of four teenagers has captured the world?s attention, and with good reason.
The 2016 primary circus is coming to New HampshireA cluster of possible 2016 hopefuls is making the trek to New Hampshire in what some say is the most wide-open GOP field in memory.
The Celtics? president of basketball operations is only interested in his team.
Azamat Tazhayakov believed Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was brainwashed by his brother, Tamerlan, according to testimony.
??We?re not giving the president a blank check,?? said Speaker John Boehner.
President Obama spoke with the Israeli leader as the bombardment of the Gaza Strip intensifies.
A local group has spearheaded a surge in the practice of harvesting excess crops for the poor.
It?s a four-day celebration of the carbonated beverage that many Mainers consider a symbol of the state?s unique character
The comedian is back on the daytime chatfest for a most unexpected second act after a recent shakeup.
Colin Flavin of Flavin Architects designed a mahogany railing and trellis and encased the landing with a structure that has glass doors on two sides.
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Public markets in BostonSince 1634, when Boston voted to establish a market at the site of the Old State House, markets in the city have flourished.
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