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Mayor Menino gives pushcart vendors 60-day extension

Downtown Crossing street vendors have filed a lawsuit to fight a decision to end the current pushcart program.

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Mass. urges taxpayers to file returns online

With only 6 percent of users filing with paper forms, officials are trying for hefty savings by prodding everyone to file electronically.

US seeks ‘serious’ action by China on hacking

The US response reflects growing concern over the security risk posed by cyber intrusions and the economic costs for American businesses.

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Barbara Pym fans converge on Boston

She may be one of the most famous 20th-century British writers Americans have never heard of. But she has fans in the US, and they’ll gather in Boston to mark the centenary of her birth.

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Bruins win in Ottawa

The Bruins were down by two goals in the first period, but rebounded to tie the game and then won it on a shootout goal by David Krejci.

On eve of papal conclave, cardinals hold final debate

With no clear front-runner or indication of how long voting will last, cardinals Monday offered wildly different assessments of what they’re looking for in a pope.

Jack Parker makes retirement from BU official

The BU men’s hockey coach said after a 40-year tenure during which he won 3 national titles, “It’s a tough job. It takes a lot out of you.”

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Dr. Alessio Fasano, Victoria Kennedy, Dr. Ronald Kleinman, and Dr. Peter Slavin have their picture taken by a Mass. General staff photographer at the Museum of Medical History and Innovation.

Making bread safe for celiacs

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Facing the puzzling urge to injure

Nara Williams worked in the window seat of her tiny house on the campus of Hampshire College.

In a tiny house, large lessons about life

Hospital charges bring a backlash

No fixed standards for gun permits in Mass.

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A taxing time for many at UMass

James Braga, 61, died in a car crash Saturday.

Crash kills a Middleborough High ex-coach, teacher

New flight paths southwest of Boston are designed to be more efficient and save fuel, but they concentrate air traffic.

Noise worry holds up Logan flight path plans

Thomas Allen as Don Alfonso (with Helen Donath as Despina) in a 2006 production of “Così fan tutte.”

Sir Thomas Allen pulls double duty in ‘Così fan tutte’

From left, George Wong, Yalonda Howze, Andrew Ference, Kara Hayward, Maggie DeSantis Ahearn and Dani McDonald.

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The 25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2013

Now 46 and living in Vermont, Richard Abath was a struggling musician moonlighting as a guard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum when it was robbed in 1990.

Decades after the Gardner heist, a focus on the guard

Cable talk hosts loosen up

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James Madison 70, Northeastern 57

James Madison guard Devon Moore blocked a shot by Northeastern guard Demetrius Pollard in the first half.

Northeastern loses in CAA final

The Huskies were vying for their first NCAA tournament berth since 1991 but came up short when James Madison University built a 22-point halftime lead.

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University logo may play key role in ‘Rockefeller’ trial

Jury selection begins today in the murder trial of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who also called himself Clark Rockefeller, for the 1985 killing of his landlord.