Rita Chandler

5 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Rita Chandler |Tonya Alanez

It was a reenactment 250 years in the making of a ride that would shape American history. Paul Revere traveled from the North End by boat across the Charles River to Charlestown, hurried into City Square and hopped on a horse bound for Lexington, in his heroic mission to warn colonists that British troops were advancing, and igniting the American Revolution.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Rita Chandler |Tonya Alanez

As the sun set over City Hall Plaza in downtown Boston Tuesday, more than 100 protesters gathered to denounce the detention of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was apprehended by masked immigration agents on a Somerville street last week. The demonstration opened with a collective declaration delivered by anonymous Tufts graduate students, all members of the Tufts Grad Workers Union, of which Öztürk was also a part.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Emily Sweeney |Rita Chandler

A bone believed to be that of a human skull was found by a hunter in the woods off Route 3 in Plymouth earlier this month, according to local police reports. Around 9:30 a.m. on March 6, the hunter was following deer trails when he came upon what initially looked like animal bones partially covered by leaves, the report said. Upon closer inspection, he observed that the skull was too round to belong to an animal, and appeared to be the upper portion of a human skull, the report said.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Lila Hempel-Edgers |Rita Chandler |Tonya Alanez

One student hunched over a stack of cardboard posters, scrawling “sanctuary over suppression” across them with thick markers. Another stood with a megaphone by her side, greeting students as they arrived. Just before 4 p.m., one student stepped forward with the stack of cardboard in hand. She placed the stack on the pavement and encouraged attendees to take a sign. More than 100 UMass Amherst students, faculty and residents protested Thursday in front of the "Whitmore Ramp," on campus. Matthew J.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Rita Chandler |Tonya Alanez

At its Monday meeting, the Everett City Council unanimously voted “no confidence” in Mayor Carlo DeMaria, whom the state inspector general found was overpaid $180,000 in longevity bonuses. The vote came less than a week after the council also voted for DeMaria to repay the bonus money wrongly paid to him over a five year period. “My confidence in this administration is beyond shaken right now,” Councilor Robert Van Campen said at Monday’s meeting.