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Dot bakery fills ‘national niche’ with its local fare. Stone & Skillet’s English muffins array. The bread aisles at Target stores offer a bazaar of competition, with dozens of brands and bake houses clamoring for attention to their products. But when it comes to the English muffin, the company has limited the number of suppliers to just a few, and one of them is Dorchester’s Stone & Skillet bakery.

MBTA Transit Police are searching for an unidentified man accused of punching two riders without any provocation in less than a month — once on a Green Line platform in Medford and again on a city bus in Cambridge. Investigators say the attacks, nearly three weeks apart, appear to be the work of the same person, and they're asking the public to help identify him before he strikes again.

City Councilor Ed Flynn spearheaded the initiative to get the bike lane removed on O’Connor Way, but says residents were left out of the decision-making process to have it installed in the first place, and now he wants answers from the city.

Two people are facing charges in an alleged bribery scheme involving a former employee at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.

Alexandria Real Estate Equities is selling its nearly complete 421 Park Drive life sciences tower in Boston's Fenway neighborhood to an institutional buyer, a deal the company says will reduce its remaining construction costs by about $136 million. The 13-story, 339,668-square-foot building sits at the company's Alexandria Center for Life Science megacampus and had just wrapped construction in June, making it the last speculative lab project in Greater Boston to finish without a tenant already l

Hopkinton and Natick canceled their contracts with Flock Safety . Bellingham and Framingham let their contracts with the AI powered automatic license plate readers (ALPR) expire. They joined a growing trend in the state and nationally with more and more law enforcement agencies severing ties with the company under growing pressure from groups that argue the massive amount of data collected by Flock could be used by federal agencies and has been abused by police officers throughout the country. H

A man was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries Tuesday afternoon after witnesses say he jumped from the Moody Street Bridge into the Charles River in Waltham. According to the Waltham Fire Department, 911 began receiving calls at 3:12 p.m. reporting a man on the Moody Street Bridge. Dispatchers then received reports that the individual had entered the water. Witnesses who were by the bridge told Boston 25 News they initially mistook the situation for a bird in the river. “I saw

Boston's rat problem is getting expensive, and some residents want to put one person in charge of fixing it. In some neighborhoods, rats have started chewing through the wiring of cars, causing extensive damage. Ali Foley, a Back Bay resident, said more than four cars in her neighborhood have been...

A masked gunman allegedly ripped a gold chain off a food delivery driver's neck in broad daylight on Normandy Street in Grove Hall, then fled on foot before investigators tracked a getaway vehicle north to Lawrence, where troopers pulled it over that same afternoon. Boston police say the suspect, 32-year-old Dorchester resident Eury Martin Avalo Baez, is now facing multiple charges in connection with the robbery.

After a Cape Cod assistant school principal allegedly drove into oncoming traffic in downtown Boston and nearly hit a police patrol car while in reverse, Boston police described her driving to state authorities as an "immediate threat to public safety," according to the police report obtained by the Times. Now, Dennis-Yarmouth Middle School Assistant Principal Holly Burns, 44, faces a third operating under the influence of liquor charge after arrests in 2018 in Plymouth and 2019 in Duxbury. Burn