By Ed Donga

The Enterprise


Posted Jun. 10, 2014 @ 2:35 am
Updated at 2:41 AM

Tips have come in from all around Greater Boston about the torso found on a Sandwich beach Wednesday night, Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said Sunday. Authorities are hoping to complete DNA tests on the remains by Monday, O’Keefe said. They then hope to construct a DNA profile of the victim and see if they can match that to records in a database. Continue reading below O’Keefe said state authorities have received numerous calls since asking for the public’s help identifying the body, which was found Wednesday night on Town Neck Beach wrapped in a tarp and strapped Continue reading >>>

In this January 2014 photo, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley addresses a breakfast meeting of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce at a hotel in Boston. Coakley, a Democrat, is seeking the governor’s office in the 2014 election. (Steven Senne/AP) BOSTON — The Massachusetts Democratic Convention looms as the biggest political test for gubernatorial hopeful Martha Coakley since an ill-fated U.S. Senate campaign against Republican Scott Brown more than four years ago. Analysts say anything less than a solid showing by the current attorney general at next weekend’s Continue reading >>>

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By R. Scott Reedy
For The Patriot Ledger


Posted Jun. 7, 2014 @ 10:00 am

Greater Boston hotels set occupancy and rate records in April as visitors filled rooms for the Boston Marathon. Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  |  Twitter Continue reading >>>

An artist rendering of the Greater Boston YMCA that was planned for the Greenway until the idea became too expensive. Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  |  Twitter Continue reading >>>

Friday, June 6, 2014, 11:29am The Boston Marathon helped boost local hotel occupancies to their highest level in eight years, according to an industry study.Greater Boston hotels averaged 82 percent occupancy and $222 daily room rates during the month of April, PKF Consulting reported. Occupancy rates were the highest for the month of April since 2006.Occupancy rates were up nearly 5 percent and room rates Continue reading >>>

John Henry bought The Boston Globe and related assets for $70 million last fall. Jon Chesto Managing Editor, Print- Boston Business Journal Email  |  Twitter  |  Continue reading >>>

The last stop for many of Greater Boston’s priests is a wood-paneled rest home in the West End, where white-haired men gather and talk as fervently about baseball as they do about Bibles. The Regina Cleri residence, celebrating its 50th year this week, provides health care and support for senior priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The residents say Mass every day, retell stories both sacred and personal, and congregate each Thursday for movie night. Continue reading below “They take us as we are, and they let us live,” said the Rev. Leo Lynch, 83. “And live we do.” It Continue reading >>>