With the rank of captain, he led a Massachusetts militia force — which has at times been erroneously identified as Minutemen — in a fateful engagement. Parker had served as a soldier in the ...

“He’s a Massachusetts man of the people ... Reform or die. Kathleen Parker is a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Readers may e-mail her at|kathleenparker@ ...

BOSTON — Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his “Spenser” series ...

Ben was born Feb. 27, 1925 in Lowell, MA, a son of the late Arthur Benjamin Parker, Sr. and Ruth (D’Mooers) Parker. Mr. Parker attended the Morey School, and the Lowell High school. He graduated ...

Officials on Friday identified the man whose body was recovered overnight from the fast-moving, high-water current of a river in Newbury, Massachusetts. Newbury police responded to the Parker ...