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The longest road | Part 1 of 3

Brave and afraid

He was an ebullient boy, quick to laugh and easy to love. And then, at 17, the shadow fell. A devastating diagnosis of mental illness. By Jenna Russell

Yvonne Abraham

Two very different primaries

Can we fix it so that whoever loses the race for Attorney General becomes Middlesex DA?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/08/24/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/bank150-4447.jpg Future of Export-Import Bank on ropes

Republicans in Congress want to kill the bank, but supporters say the federal agency helps US business compete in the global economy.

Four women accuse Everett mayor of sexual harassment

Carlo DeMaria?s accusers include a city employee who abruptly resigned in 2012 after she said the mayor asked her for oral sex.

How many bleeping dents are in the Green Monster?

10,000? A million? Yes, there is an answer.

Christian right, political left unite in opposing casinos

The fight over gambling in Mass. has spawned an unlikely alliance.

Kevin Cullen

Irish seek truth behind babes? unburied bones

The saga is yet another exercise in Ireland?s ongoing, agonizing confrontation with its uncomfortable past.

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