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The Religion Newswriters Association honored Michael Paulson, the Globe’s religion reporter, with two first-place awards Saturday.

Residents of Wilmore Street in Mattapan saw four people shot on their one-block-long venue last year. Some neighbors’ cars were struck by rogue bullets earlier this summer, neighbors said.

WESTFIELD Professors and staff at Westfield State College say they have had enough of stalled contract talks with the state Board of Higher Education. The faculty planned to set up a picket line on the campus today to protest the impasse. Kenneth Haar, president of the school’s chapter of the Massachusetts State College Association, said the union will demand that …

NEWTON - Two decades ago, the city’s oldest synagogue was on the verge of locking its doors and becoming a museum.

CHILMARK - The fate of the old-time Home Port restaurant overlooking Menemsha Pond, a favorite place on the island to catch a sunset and a lobster roll, is in the hands of the town tonight.

Boston University will scale back a 35-year-old merit scholarship program for Boston public high school graduates and devote larger sums to city graduates who need it most, university and city officials announced yesterday.

The federal government has rejected a request by the MBTA and other big-city transit agencies to use antiterrorism grants to install systems that detect chemical threats in subway stations.

Governor Deval Patrick has toughened his new rules on police details at road construction sites, outmaneuvering local police unions that were making a last-minute push to get around efforts to rein in the costly assignments.

Some local nonprofits and charities fear they may lose millions of dollars in funding following the collapse of major Wall Street investment firms.

The wait to see primary care doctors in Massachusetts has grown to as long as 100 days, while the number of practices accepting new patients has dipped in the past four years, with care the scarcest in some rural areas.