Dana-Farber Community Vans Providing Cancer Screening In Greater Boston

CBS Boston (con't) Affordable Care Act Updates: CBSBoston.com/ACA Health News Information: CBSBoston.com/Health BOSTON (CBS) – 52-year-old Maria Teixeira gets annual mammograms on the Dana-Farber Mammography van at the Dimock Center in Roxbury. “It’s in my neighborhood,” she said. “ It’s right here.  I don’t need to take buses.” The van travels to communities within the city of Boston as well as outlying areas like Waltham, Brockton, and Quincy. “We work with the health center staff and they help schedule the women and all the women have to do is come to a place that Continue reading >>>

Wegmans announces opening date for Burlington grocery store

Wegmans Food Markets has announced the opening date for its newest store in the Boston area. Wegmans has announced its 3rd store in the greater Boston area will open in late October.  More The grocery store chain announced Monday it will open its Burlington store on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 7 a.m.See photos of the constructionThe Burlington Wegmans is nearly double Continue reading >>>

ADDING MULTIMEDIA Staples and Katy Perry “Make Roar Happen” for Boston …

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Staples (SPLS) and global pop music superstar Katy Perry continue to “Make Roar Happen” in the Greater Boston area today by announcing 106 local classroom projects have been funded as part of Staples’ $1 million donation to DonorsChoose.org. Staples fully funded the balance of every project that was on DonorsChoose.org in the Boston Metro, Cambridge and Metrowest communities today. This $80,698 donation helped 83 teachers fulfill classroom needs and helped 8,958 students in the Boston community. For example, Mr. Chen Continue reading >>>

Online Donations for Market Basket Ad Nearly Double Revere Tornado Relief

Fortunately, Revere officials said they’ve already secured $100,000 in donations from other sources, so it’s not as though the relief campaign has been a total bust. But given the chance to donate online, choosy shoppers continued to support Market Basket. Click here if you’d like to donate to the Revere Tornado Fund. Click here to see the Market Basket customer GoFundMe, which funded a Lowell Sun ad that ran in Saturday’s paper. Check out more Boston.com coverage of the Market Basket saga here. Scalese can be reached at roberto.scalese@globe.com or via Twitter @BertoScalese. Continue reading >>>

After 12 years, no end in sight for Honduran man’s bid for asylum – Longview News

When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10-year-old, with a machete scar and memories of a murdered uncle as reminders of why he’d embarked on a long, perilous journey from Honduras. He feared staying in his homeland and desperately wanted to join his mother in the U.S. In July 2002, he and two cousins — 6 and 14 — ended up near Brownsville after traveling by train, bus and foot. He remembers his grandmother, who lived in Arimis, Honduras, preparing to send him away, handing him a bag of food, some water Continue reading >>>

Honduran man waits for asylum after 12-year fight

When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10-year-old, with a machete scar and memories of a murdered uncle as reminders of why he'd embarked on a long, perilous journey from Honduras. He feared staying in his homeland and desperately wanted to join his mother in the U.S. In July 2002, he and two cousins, 6 and 14, ended up near Brownsville after traveling by train, bus and foot. He remembers his grandmother, who lived in Arimis, Honduras, preparing to send him away, handing him a bag of food, some water and telling him: "'Get on the bus. Don't look back. ... Don't Continue reading >>>

188th Legislative Session on Beacon Hill carried some wins, losses for Attorney …

STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When a Big Dig ceiling panel collapsed, killing a Boston woman in 2006, Attorney General Martha Coakley vowed to press lawmakers to update the state's 2-century-old corporate manslaughter law — a promise she repeated in 2012 after a deadly meningitis outbreak was linked to a local compounding pharmacy. While lawmakers failed to take final action on Coakley's proposal to increase the penalty from $1,000 to $250,000, she was able to claim other successes as the Legislature ended its formal session Friday. Those include measures tightening flood Continue reading >>>