Globe Spotlight Investigation
It was a quirky, old place, but it was home to Binland Lee and her 13 housemates. It was also blatantly illegal, from basement bedrooms without permits to the unit with only one way out — where Binland died when fire struck last spring.
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Two weeks before graduation, the BU senior was killed in a fire in her Allston apartment. Here, friends and family shared Binland’s letters and pictures.
CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER
For Bruins, turnabout is fair playMaybe the Bruins should petition the city to rename Causeway Street as Comeback Way.
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Healthcare.gov a hot topic for jokes at White House Correspondents dinnerPresident Obama and the night’s featured entertainer, Joel McHale, both delivered quips about the troubled rollout of the website.
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State political leaders call a pair of approaching transportation deadlines a “looming crisis.”
Yvonne Abraham
Early education for poor kids is a cause that should have both bleeding heart libs and die-hard conservatives singing Kumbaya.
opinion | Pat Hollenbeck
A Boston arts czar shouldn’t forget musiciansLook around and it’s clear that the city simply isn’t giving its musicians the infrastructure they need to maintain a diverse scene.
The Bruins were down, 3-1, when they scored four unanswered goals against the Canadiens in the third period.
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The Rollstone Congregational Church was packed to near-capacity as the community said goodbye to the 4-year-old boy.
An Okla. inmate’s botched execution is highly unlikely to change minds about capital punishment in the nation’s most active death-penalty states.
Coding is no longer just for computer science majors and other assorted byte heads.
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This extraordinary house is made of steel, concrete, and planks of pine and oak harvested from the roughly four acre lot, and is LEED certified.
“Tell It With Pride,” installed at the Massachusetts Historical Society, aims to give the 54th Massachusetts Regiment names and individual histories.
A new breed of aquaculturists combine a love of farming with education, science, local ecology, and a global environmental outlook.
The cartoonist’s graphic memoir, her clear-eyed remembrance of her parents final years, is all the funnier and deeper for the social conventions the author ignores.
From the Archives
College life in the Boston areaAs high school seniors make decisions about which college to attend in the fall, we take a look at the college life of decades past.
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Are teen jobs becoming a luxury good?A sharp decline in work for youth is depriving a generation of key skills — especially the kids who need them most.
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