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Alexi Pappas is an Olympic runner, award-winning actor and writer. Her new memoir “Bravey” debuted at #1 in the sports and film category. She’s done all of this by age 30. Hannah Donnelly sat down with the force of nature to talk about how she does it.

Stephen England has finished more than 20 marathons and 75 ultra marathons in the last few years, but his latest race is unquestionably his most unique. England had planned to run in the Boston Marathon, originally set for April 20, but it was delayed until September due to the coronavirus pandemic. But England sticks to his schedule. On Monday, the…

A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty in federal court in New Hampshire to a fentanyl trafficking charge.

Track and field is facing a painful and public reckoning with the treatment of some female athletes. Former teen running star Mary Cain’s account this week of alleged physical and emotional abuse at the recently disbanded Nike Oregon Project is prompting more top athletes to come forward. Amy Yoder Begley, a 10,000-meter runner, said Friday she was told she had...

Nike will investigate accusations of abuse by Mary Cain while she was part of Alberto Salazar’s training group. The runner says it reached the point where she started having suicidal thoughts and cutting herself. Cain joined the disbanded Nike Oregon Project run by Salazar in 2013, soon after competing in the 1,500-meter final at track and field’s world championships when...

The New York City Marathon brings thousands of runners from around the world to the Empire State, but there’s one runner that’s very special to those in Boston. It’s impossible to forget the image of U.S. Marine Micah Herndon crawling across this year’s Boston Marathon finish line. His Boston moment was so moving that he was offered a spot in...

Four-time Olympian Shalane Flanagan and noted U.S. marathon champion is retiring from competitive running after a 15-year career, the Massachusetts native announced Monday morning on social media. In two posts on Instagram, Flanagan explained she will be transition to a role as professional coach for the Nike Bowerman Track Club in Portland, Oregon.

Roger Bannister, 1954. Eliud Kipchoge, 2019? Like the sub-four minute mile, running a marathon in less than two hours had seemed impossible — until Saturday. But this time there’s an asterisk: Olympic champion Kipchoge performed his feat under conditions so tightly controlled to maximize his success that it won’t appear in the record books. The 34-year-old Kenyan completed the 42.195...

Three men arrested during the investigation into rapper Mac Miller’s deadly overdose last year have now been charged with providing the drugs that killed him, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday.

A third man has been arrested and charged with drug offenses in connection with the overdose death of rapper Mac Miller. Court documents show Steven Walter is suspected of selling counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that Miller possessed before he died of an accidental overdose last year of cocaine, alcohol and the powerful opioid.

A runner is being credited with saving a dog walker from a Brighton reservoir after he swam out after a loose dog and became overwhelmed.

A Massachusetts woman thought she was signing up to run a half marathon near her home, not across the Atlantic Ocean. Sheila Pereira learned too late that the Worcester City Run Half Marathon was actually being held in Worcester, England, and not Worcester, Massachusetts, on Sept. 15. She decided to run 13 miles that day anyway, only on this side...

Thousands gathered in the Granite State Thursday as President Donald Trump held a campaign rally.

A driver struck and killed a man who was jogging in Sutton, Massachusetts, Wednesday morning, according to witnesses and police. Authorities are searching for a white SUV with damage on the passenger side. The hit-and-run took place on Singletary Avenue, leaving a 51-year-old man from neighboring Millbury, Daniel De Lima, dead in a yard, according to the Sutton Police Department.

Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in “Blade Runner” opposite Harrison Ford, has died. He was 75.

She’s lovable, doggone it! A two-year-old Doberman pinscher-pit bull mix is yet again looking for her forever home after being returned to a Boston animal shelter for a record fourth time due to her high energy level, the shelter said Monday.

A runner has been found dead days after he was disqualified from the Los Angeles Marathon following allegations of cheating.

The governing body of track argued in court that Olympic champion Caster Semenya is “biologically male” and that is the reason she should reduce her natural testosterone to be allowed to compete in female competitions, according to documents released publicly for the first time on Tuesday and which provide new insight into a bitter legal battle. The documents released by...

Police say what appeared to be a dead infant found outside a park in Queens — a “child” that was declared dead by emergency personnel — turned out to be a realistic-looking doll made to look like a decomposing baby.

The governing body of track argued in court that Olympic champion Caster Semenya is “biologically male” and that is the reason she should reduce her natural testosterone to be allowed to compete in female competitions, according to documents released publicly for the first time on Tuesday and which provide new insight into a bitter legal battle. The documents released by...