On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

A regional public transit agency with a $4 billion-plus budget appears on the verge of naming its next leader, winding down a confidential search marked by the controversial inclusion of a finalist ...