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Doctors at a Boston hospital have performed a full face transplant on the Connecticut woman who was mauled by her friend's pet chimpanzee. Officials at Brigham and Women's Hospital say they performed the transplant on Charla Nash late last month. The surgery team under the leadership of Dr. Bohdan Pomahac (POE-ma-hawk) also performed a double hand transplant on Nash, but the hands failed to thrive and were removed.

The Twin Cities Minneapolis-St. Paul are the healthiest, fittest cities in the USA, followed by Washington, D.C., and Boston, according to a new analysis of the 50 most populous metro areas.

A Texas construction worker badly disfigured in a power line accident two years ago has received the nation's first full face transplant at a Boston hospital.

The snowstorm that slammed the deep South and churned its way into the Northeast is causing similar headaches for travelers. Travel in and out of New York and Boston was limited Wednesday morning.

Boston's Back Bay, Oak Park, Ill., and downtown Frederick, Md., all make the list this year.

A utility official says a home in Boston exploded after construction crews accidentally struck a natural gas line.

As radio station WEEI first reported, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady(notes) was involved in a car accident Thursday morning in downtown Boston. The quarterback was just "shaken," acording to all reports, and did not go to the hospital. He went to team facilities at Gillette Stadium after the crash.

Philip Markoff, the man accused of killing a masseuse and robbing a prostitute he met on Craigslist, was found dead in a Boston jail, officials say ...

Source says government investigators are looking in Boston area in order to preempt another leak.

U.S. authorities were searching two locations in the Boston area in connection with the attempted bombing in Times Square on May 1, an FBI spokesman said on Thursday.