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The 2021 Boston Marathon has been postponed from its traditional date in April until at least the fall of next year amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Boston Athletic Association said Wednesday. It would be impossible to safely hold the event with just six months left until Patriots’ Day — the date the race is traditionally run — and road races…

The 2021 Boston Marathon, which would have been held for April, will be pushed back to at least the fall amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Boston Logan International Airport on Wednesday opened a new coronavirus testing site, becoming the latest airport to offer the service to travelers amid an ongoing swoon in air travel. XpresCheck, a health and wellness firm, began building the testing facility earlier this month at the airport’s international arrivals area. The facility opened Wednesday for airport and airline employees only....

A new coronavirus testing site opened Wednesday at Boston’s Logan International Airport for airport and airline employees.

Police chased down and arrested two men from Boston after shots were fired Tuesday afternoon in the Back Bay. Rashawn Bly, 24, and Walter Coleman, 23, ran down an alley, away from officers after gunshots were fired between Boylston Street and Newbury Street, according to police. Authorities later found a Baretta 9 mm in a recycling bin in the same…

Police say two people were arrested after shots were fired Tuesday afternoon in Boston’s Back Bay.

Boston released its guidelines for Halloween during the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday morning. Trick-or-treating will be allowed, but city officials are urging people to pursue safer alternatives if possible. And adults are being asked not to participate in gatherings or parties. “Halloween is one of the best nights, and what’s most important this year is that any person participating...

This year will be a Halloween like no other amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Shots were fired in Boston’s Back Bay Tuesday afternoon, police say.

Long-lost interviews with Bob Dylan have surfaced at a Boston auction house, and they contain some surprising new insights about the celebrated singer-songwriter. Transcripts of the 1971 interviews with the late American blues artist Tony Glover reveal that Dylan changed his name because he worried about anti-Semitism. They also show he wrote “Lay Lady Lay” for actress Barbra Streisand. Dylan,…

A Boston man faced a judge Monday for allegedly setting fire to a ballot box in Copley Square over the weekend, police said. Boston police said they arrested Worldy Armand, 39, Sunday at around 10:50 p.m. and said he was the suspect in the incident, which resulted in 35 ballots being damaged — some of which cannot be used. The…

A United States postal inspector removed a mailbox, which is now evidence, from Boylston Street in Boston Monday night. Inside, charred mail was discovered by a mail carrier during a 4 p.m. pickup. The mailbox is in the same Copley Square area where a ballot box was set on fire early Sunday morning. Kristin Wallace is one of the Boston…

Extra precautions are being taken after two fires targeted a ballot box and a mailbox on Boylston Street in Boston.

Communities around Massachusetts are stepping up security around ballot boxes after one was set on fire this weekend in Boston.

A man accused of burning a ballot box in Boston over the weekend has been arrested.

Someone set fire to a ballot drop box in Boston’s Copley Square early Sunday morning, police said, prompting a search for the arson suspect and calls for increased security amid ongoing early voting in Massachusetts.

The FBI is now investigating after Massachusetts’ secretary of state informed them of what appears to be a deliberate attack.

The rising daily coronavirus case count in Massachusetts isn’t the only warning sign of a new spike in cases for the Boston area. Traces of COVID-19 are appearing more frequently at the sewage plant that treats wastewater for Boston and many of its suburbs, according to public data shared by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. Sewage from the southern...

Thirty-five ballots are no longer able to be used, according to Massachusetts’ top elections official, Secretary of State William Galvin, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who urged people who used the box Saturday and early Sunday to contact them to get replacement ballots.

One man has died in a Roxbury shooting early Sunday.