As the business thrived, so did the brothers' physical footprint across Worcester. In 1865 they purchased 100 acres of the Lyon Farm, where Coes Pond sits today. There they set up a knife manufacturer ...

Today in Boston Celtics history, Walter Lee McCarty was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1974. McCarty played his NCAA basketball for Kentucky under eventual Celtics coach and President of Basketball ...

Seven people were reported aboard the Lily Jean, a fishing boat featured on the History Channel miniseries Nor'easter Men.

The Coast Guard suspended its search Saturday after the fishing vessel Lily Jean reportedly sank off Cape Ann with seven aboard, including an NOAA observer.

Veteran captain Gus Sanfilippo, his crew, and a fishery observer from the NOAA were on board the 72-foot boat, when the Coast Guard received a radio beacon alert on Friday morning.

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced that the search for survivors on a commercial fishing vessel that sank off the coast of ...

Reports from that time described Northampton as briefly isolated, while floodwaters submerged highways, and hundreds of residents — with fears of power failure looming — fled low-lying neighborhoods ...

Jon Fasman, our senior culture correspondent, on the Boston Massacre, and how it changed relations between the colonists and ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

Following the Revolution, members of the Black Vassall family moved to the area that would come to be known as Lewisville, ...