By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Mar. 16--Logan International Airport officials decided yesterday to spend $4.9 million to design a new consolidated rental car center that could open in 2011 or 2012.

By O'RYAN JOHNSON Victory in Boston's own version of the Thirty Years' War will be declared on Thanksgiving when the first jet touches down on a 5,000- foot stretch of concrete and asphalt known as runway 14/32.

By Michael Levenson, The Boston Globe Aug. 10--St

The Massport Board of Directors has chosen well. Thomas J. Kinton, aviation director of Logan International Airport since 1993, rose through the ranks for one reason: Merit.

By MICHELE McPHEE; CASEY ROSS An ambulance racing to get a heart attack victim to the hospital was snagged in Big Dig tunnel gridlock, turning what should have been a four-minute trip into a desperate 25-minute ordeal that ended with the man's death, public safety and transportation sources said.