If only the outwardly progressive candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for the Suffolk and Middlesex state senate seat had looked to history, one of their own might have begun a new Boston dynasty.
The special election earlier this month to replace outgoing state Senator Anthony Petruccelli of East Boston will be known as a lost opportunity for progressives. For years, the district, which stretches from Revere and Winthrop through East Boston into the North End and Waterfront, and also includes East Cambridge and Chinatown, "belonged to East Boston."
BEIRUT (AP) — A wave of airstrikes and shelling killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, including dozens at a hospital, monitors and activists said Thursday.
The contested city is now one of the main battlegrounds of Syria's devastating civil war, with a cease-fire that has collapsed and peace talks in Geneva stalled.
