Josh Kraft, the longtime nonprofit leader and younger son of billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, has filed paperwork with state campaign finance regulators to run for mayor of Boston as a Democrat.

Josh Kraft, son of the billionaire New England Patriots owner and head of the family’s philanthropic arm, has filed paperwork to run for mayor of Boston.

Josh Kraft, president of the New England Patriots Foundation and son of Patriots owner Robert Kraft, has filed paperwork with the state to launch a campaign for mayor of Boston. Kraft's submission on Friday to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance creates the Kraft Committee.

Traffic is backed up for miles after a crash involving a charter bus closed both sides of Route 1A in East Boston on Monday morning. Video from the scene showed a crashed Academy bus with a shattered windshield stopped on the southbound side of 1A at 175 William F.

A bus crashed into a utility pole on the William F. McClellan Highway in East Boston and brought down two other poles and two transformers, Boston police said. The crash on the McClellan Highway, which is also Route 1A,

Traffic is backed up for miles after a crash involving a charter bus closed Route 1A in East Boston on Monday morning. Video from the scene showed a crashed Academy bus with a shattered windshield stopped on the southbound side of 1A,