Back Bay

Such gradual and insidious flooding caused major damage on the East Coast during Superstorm Sandy in 2012, even though more attention was paid to damage from oceanfront waves pounding on the beachfront

Celebrity chef Mario Batali will face a criminal assault charge in Massachusetts. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said Batali was expected to be arraigned Friday in Boston Municipal Court on a charge of indecent assault and battery. The charge stems from an incident at a restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay on March 31, 2017, the DA’s office said.

A man has been arrested in a 1973 murder of an 11-year-old in Newport Beach girl whose mysterious disappearance was featured by police in a Twitter campaign.

Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin Oliver was shot dead inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas on Valentine’s Day, unveiled the new billboard in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood near Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox. Oliver designed the 90-foot long billboard featuring an image of the 17-year-old to advocate for stricter gun control.

Dozens of Boston-area college students are without a home after a massive fire Saturday. Up to 70 students were displaced by the fire that ripped through a 5-story building in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Officials responded to 104 Hemenway Street, which is home to Northeastern University and Berklee College of Music students, just after 3:15 p.m. Saturday.

Five years after the Tsarnaev brothers’ bombs killed three people and wounded hundreds of others at the Boston Marathon, the finish line on Boylston Street is up, yellow daffodils line the sidewalk, an unofficial memorial to the lives lost is in place, and spectators have flooded the city for its rite of spring. “I’ve grown up around here and it’s...