Guided by Rudr Malayya's straight-sets effort in his first outing against his former team, St. John's Prep boys' tennis extended its undefeated season with a top-10 win over Lexington on Tuesday ...

While thousands of firearms were used in and around the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, few survive today. One survivor is the flintlock fowler used by Capt. John ...

On Lexington Green, The Minuteman Statue, which is also considered to be a representation of Capt. John Parker, the commander of the Lexington militia, looks out at the road on which the British ...

The 250th anniversary couldn't come at a better time to remind people it's OK to have different beliefs, Carl Sweeney, captain of the Concord Minute Men, told WBUR's Cloe Axelson. But you need to ...

Capt. John Parker, commander of the Lexington militia, was in charge. Though gravely ill on that fateful morning, Parker is reputed to have commanded the militia, "Stand your ground.

According to the Lexington Minute Men, Captain John Parker had about 77 men on the Battle Green the morning of April 19, 1775. For this year's reenactment, the company plans to have around 40 ...

A statue of farmer-turned Minuteman captain John Parker stands at one end, facing the direction from where British troops approached.

Was This Little-Known Standoff Between British Soldiers and Colonists the Real Start of the American Revolution? On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force ...

The king’s troops marched into the small town of Lexington around 5 a.m. and, to their surprise, found a militia company of more than 70 men led by Captain John Parker facing them. When the British ...