BOSTON (AP) -- Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz reportedly is unhurt after a minor car accident on his way to Fenway Park.

BOSTON -- Kevin Garnett had a night for the ages.

BOSTON, May 10 (UPI) -- Kevin Garnett put Boston in front with 31 seconds left Thursday and the Celtics ended the game on a 7-1 run to down Atlanta 83-80 and advance in the playoffs.

Irish President Michael D. Higgins visited several sites in Boston Saturday, calling the city “the capital of Irish America.” The visit, his first to Boston after being elected President last November, was planned as a remembrance of the Great Irish Famine that began in 1845. In a probing and professorial speech at Faneuil Hall’s Great Hall, Higgins acknowledged the complex legacy of the famine ...

The excitement surrounding Facebook Inc.’s forthcoming Wall Street debut arrived in Boston Tuesday, as the company’s top executives pitched the massive social media company to hundreds of potential investors and its 27-year-old celebrity chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, met privately with some of the city’s premier money managers. It was the second stop in a nationwide “roadshow’’ ahead ...