Snowstorms straining public works budgets

Officials around Mass. said this winter’s high levels of icy precipitation have begun to threaten their balanced budgets.

Wearing the right gear helps runners training in the cold weather for the Marathon. Nicole Quinlan suited up for a recent run.

Cold snap challenges runners in training

This winter has tested the resolve of the most disciplined runners, particularly those training for their first Boston Marathon.

Boston cancels schools ahead of winter storm

Boston public schools are closed today, and a snow emergency and parking ban took effect at 11 p.m. Tuesday night.

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The panel unanimously recommended that lawmakers expel Carlos Henriquez, who is serving a six month sentence for assaulting a woman.

Health law projected to put dent in workforce

A CBO analysis predicted that the Affordable Care Act would shrink the workforce by the equivalent of more than 2 million full-time positions.

George Stout (left) helped remove Michelangelo’s “Bruges Madonna” from an Austrian salt mine. George Clooney based his character in “The Monuments Men” on Stout, who had worked at Harvard’s Fogg Museum.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART/1945 (left); CLAUDETTE BARIUS

Vital Mass. links in ’40s WWII art rescues

More than 20 of the officers in the movie “Monuments Men” had ties to the state, and many came out of Harvard, including central figure George Stout.

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Neither Zilania Joacin, 71, nor her relatives are ready for her to leave Spaulding Hospital Cambridge, especially to go back to Haiti.

Vlada Provotorova and friends place strays wherever they can.

Rescuers mobilize as Sochi tries to kill off stray dogs

The city has hired a pest-control company to kill homeless animals, all in an effort to clean up the streets in advance of the Olympics.

Opponents of the pipeline staged a protest Monday night at the Harvard Square MBTA stop.

Activists prod John Kerry to say no on pipeline

The secretary of state is approaching a defining moment for his legacy: whether to recommend approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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State legislators will soon consider a bill to allow undocumented residents the right to drive legally with a state-issued license.