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NEW YORK — The parents of a Democratic National Committee employee who was killed in 2016 allege Fox News exploited the slaying of their son as a “political football.”Joel and Mary Rich claim in a lawsuit that Fox News, a reporter and a guest commentator used “lies, misrepresentations and half-truths” in a May 16, 2017, article that claimed their son, Seth Rich, had leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks during the presidential campaign.

It was a dark and stormy night, and some Boston police officers making a hamburger run Tuesday at the South End restaurant The Gallows found their wagon stuck in a snowbank.When what to their wondering eyes did appear, not a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, but Queen Elsa — taller and more muscular somehow than the character from the Disney movie “Frozen” — who gave them a push as one of the cops tried to steer.

Hundreds of Bay State students jammed the State House today on their snow day to demand that state leaders support stronger gun control and education funding, joining a national student movement.The student-led demonstrations --  with thousands of kids across the country from colleges to elementary schools walking out of their classrooms --  were meant to honor the 17 victims...

Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced Sunday's St. Patrick's Day parade will have a "modified" route that starts at Broadway Station and ends at Farragut Road."The snow route has allowed for a safe and enjoyable celebration in other years when there has been heavy snow before the parade, and I commend the Public Works Department for working diligently to ensure that Broadway will be safe and accessible by Sunday," Walsh said.Developing ... 

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Preservationists for a 130-year-old black church with ties to civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois have received federal grant money to turn it into a community center.The Berkshire Eagle reports the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area was awarded $389,000 Tuesday to restore the Clinton AME Zion Church in Great Barrington, near the New York and Connecticut borders.The National Park Service African American Civil Rights Grants Program awarded the grant.

The city's snow emergency and parking ban will expire at 5 p.m., Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced this afternoon.Residents again will be able to park their cars on all streets, and have until 7 p.m. to retrieve their cars from lots or garages that offered snow emergency parking.Residents have 48 hours from the end of the snow emergency -- the clock will start ticking at...

Some unlucky Green Line riders were stranded inside trains for nearly an hour this morning while crews tried to make repairs at Boylston Station.“The train just stopped going, then it lurched a couple times,” said Jonas Galper, who was on a Green Line train this morning. “We were stopped a total of 45 minutes.”Galper said his train was stuck a few hundred feet before the Hynes Convention Center, but eventually inched forward enough for people to get off. He decided to walk to his job at Tufts Medical Center.

Bay State gun shops challenging Attorney General Maura Healey’s enforcement notice regarding assault weapons have made a case that the directive is unconstitutional and will have their day in court, a federal judge has ruled.

Elsa from Frozen is a hero to many and now some of her biggest fans include Boston’s finest.As a snowstorm swept Boston late Tuesday, a police wagon found itself stuck in a snowbank in the city‘s South End.Coming to the rescue was an unlikely hero – a man dressed in drag as the famed Disney heroine, Elsa.

BOSTON — Some vessels that harvest herring off the East Coast will be limited in how much they can bring to shore for the rest of the year.Herring is a major fish population in the Atlantic Ocean, where the little fish are harvested for use as bait, food and fish oil. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says some herring boats in the southern New England and mid-Atlantic areas have reached a limit for the amount of shad and river herring they are allowed to catch.