Do not be alarmed today if you hear gunfire around the Greater Boston area - it will be due to Urban Shield, a 24-hour training exercise for area public safety organizations. Actually, you can be thankful that the Boston Police, Fire, and EMS, the Metro-Boston Homeland Security Region, MBTA Transit Police, and more, are practicing in case of a large-scale emergencies such as an attack occurrs. Eight area Boston hospitals are also participating in the drill. Urban Shield: Boston, which is grant-funded through the Urban Area Security Initiative, will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, go all night and Continue reading >>>

Fresh off clinching its fourth consecutive Greater Boston League championship, the Medford High Girls Soccer team is now taking aim at a state championship. The Mustangs kick off its state tournament run Saturday, as the 12th ranked Mustangs travel to play fifth seed Concord-Carlise, in first round action of the Division I North State Tournament, Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. Coach Rachel Perry’s squad, which qualified for the state tournament Oct. 24, with a 4-1 win over Cambridge, is coming off a solid 10-4-3 regular season campaign, and will take on a talented Patriot club that went 14-3. The Medford Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (CBS) – Homeland Security officials will hold a daylong public safety exercise in the Greater Boston area this weekend. First responders from Boston and eight surrounding towns will be dealing with simulated emergencies all going on simultaneously. WBZ NewsRadio 1030′s Kim Tunnicliffe reports Brookline Police Chief Daniel O’Leary says the 24-hour exercise, known as Urban Shield, will include a mass casualty event that will test the readiness of eight regional hospitals. “They have to expect a surge of patients checking in,” says Chief O’Leary. “They have to balance Continue reading >>>

Do not be alarmed on Saturday if you hear gunfire around the Greater Boston area - it will be due to Urban Shield, a 24-hour training exercise for area public safety organizations. Actually, you can be thankful that the Boston Police, Fire, and EMS, the Metro-Boston Homeland Security Region, MBTA Transit Police, and more, are practicing in case of a large-scale emergencies such as an attack occurrs. Eight area Boston hospitals are also participating in the drill. Urban Shield Boston, which is grant-funded through the Urban Area Security Initiative, will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, go all night Continue reading >>>

Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email A Colorado developer who has been dealt out of the competition for a casino license in Greater Boston is betting that his proposal for a gambling complex in Milford, Mass. will beat Suffolk Downs’s idea for a resort-style Continue reading >>>

Continue reading below Related Photos ONE BY ONE, THEY FILE discreetly through the brown door, brawny and feeble, white and black, in T-shirts and button-downs, jeans and slacks. On this misty October morning, the Canton Food Pantry, in a cramped room at the back of the old high school building, is bustling. Only a few customers can fit at a time. Others wait Continue reading >>>

Polly Bryson, partner at Terra Nova Partners, and Deshia Saucer who shared her homeless experience with United Way donors.  Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email More than 1,200 Greater Boston real estate executives attended United Way's Real Estate Building Continue reading >>>

  Do not be alarmed on Saturday if you hear gunfire from the Cleveland Circle cinema site--or around the Greater Boston area--it will be due to Urban Shield, a 24-hour training exercise for area public safety organizations. Actually, you can be thankful that the Brookline Police are teaming up with Boston Police, Fire, and EMS, the Metro-Boston Homeland Security Region, MBTA Transit Police, and other groups which are practicing in case of a large-scale emergencies such as an attack occurrs. Eight Boston-area hospitals are also participating in the drill. Urban Shield: Boston, which is grant-funded Continue reading >>>

Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston invites children and adults to audition for its spectacular holiday revue ChristmasTime at the Robinson Theatre, Waltham High School, 617 Lexington Street, Waltham. Each year more than 100 children and an equal number of adults perform a wide range of holiday music ranging from traditional choral pieces to updated jazz and big band numbers. A large dancing chorus is also featured. Now in its 30th edition, ChristmasTime is an annual seasonal favorite, as popular a tradition as The Nutcracker, A Christmas Carol, and the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. The Continue reading >>>

Then, of course, there’s the seven-piece freakshow of Human Sexual Response, hijacking the stage in gender-spanking nurse uniforms in one clip, or baiting FCC fines on late-night local TV with gleeful profanity in another. The band was a New Wave clusterbomb with four vocalists and a penchant for crooked pop songwriting that changed the shape of the Boston music scene during one of its most vital eras. Led by the spastic Larry Bangor and a troupe of singers (Casey Cameron, Windle Davis, and Bangor’s brother Dini Lamot), along with a sneakily excellent trio of musicians (Rich Gilbert on guitar, Continue reading >>>