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BOSTON, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Boston might be frosty outside but on Saturday, February 9, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay will bring the heat back to the Hub with Big Night 2013. Held at the legendary House of Blues, Big Night will feature live performances by two of the music industry's most electric stars - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Guests can catch the live acts up close and personal and enjoy dinner prepared...

BOSTON -- The worst red tide in decades idled about two-thirds of the shellfish beds in Massachusetts on Friday as the toxic algae bloom spread off the coast to Nantucket. The state shut down all shellfish beds on the island and in waters three miles around it, as well as the remaining open beds in Chatham on Cape Cod, because of unsafe levels of toxins.Don Anderson of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said it was the first time he could recall Nantucket being affected by red tide. Late...