Dozens of Massachusetts families have opened their homes to more than 240 children as the state marks the seventh annual National Adoption Day.

Federal health regulators find tiny particles of trash in drugs made by Genzyme.

One of six Harvard Medical School researchers who became ill after drinking coffee laced with a toxic chemical says he does not see how the incident could have been an accident.

Internal affairs files show that a white Massachusetts police sergeant whose arrest of a black Harvard professor ignited a national furor was twice before accused of racial bias, but cleared in both cases.

Sgt. James Crowley says all parties are looking forward.

Lucia Whalen says she’s glad the truth about her call is out.

The president invites a Harvard scholar and the officer who arrested him to the White House for a beer.

A Cambridge police officer is heard calling a Harvard scholar uncooperative.

President Barack Obama calls the policeman who arrested a Harvard scholar.

A multiracial group of police officers stood with the white officer who arrested a black Harvard scholar and asked President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to apologize for comments union leaders called insulting.

A police officer who arrested a Harvard scholar says he did nothing wrong.

The state Registry of Motor Vehicles is closing 11 branches statewide and opening five new branches in a move it says will save $1.7 million annually.

A Salem State College student dies after he was found shot at a Harvard dormitory.

A fire at a crowded Massachusetts church has been ruled accidental.

The FBI announces that it’s reviewing evidence in the Tylenol deaths of 1982.