Several Red Sox Triple-A players, including Marcelo Mayer, shined bright in a blowout victory on the road Friday.

Check out these uplifting shoutouts from Boston.com readers as runners prep for the Boston Marathon on Monday.

A message in a bottle was found on an island in the Bahamas nearly 50 years after it was written in West Newbury, Massachusetts.

The crew — including Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Paul “DJ Pauly D” DelVecchio Jr., Vinny Guadagnino, Jennifer “JWoww” Farley, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, and Deena Buckner — ...