Fewer Mass. schools earn top state rating

The drop comes as schools with high MCAS scores are paradoxically required to demand gains from lagging students.

Workers installed a a series of massive tubes along 850 feet of the shoreline on Siasconset Beach in Nantucket.

Eroding cliffs are Nantucket battle zone

A controversial $3 million project to reinforce a bluff has sparked a bitter rift with neighbors, a legal battle, and state intervention.

Catherine Greig, the longtime girlfriend of Whitey Bulger.

?Whitey? Bulger?s girlfriend to face grand jury

The move aims to force Catherine Greig to locate money and valuables the gangster may have stashed around the world.

Two skydivers killed on Cape

The divers, who were jumping in tandem, missed their intended landing area and crashed near the Cape Cod Airfield.

President Barack Obama.

Obama admits US misjudged ISIS

The president said the US placed too much trust in the Iraqi military and erred in its assessments of the Islamic State.

?I just wake up and I thank God every day,? Celtics rookie Marcus Smart said, ?because I easily could?ve been in jail or six feet under.?

Barry Chin/Globe Staff

Celtics rookie Marcus Smart?s hard past drives his future

?I just wake up and I thank God every day,? Smart said, ?because I easily could?ve been in jail or six feet under.?

Derek Jeter walked off the field to a standing ovation after the last at-bat of his career.

Dan Shaughnessy

One final time, Derek Jeter gets the job done

Jeter worked the count to 1-2 and did what he?s always done. He put the bat on the ball. He got the run home.

Brock Holt showed he can play most positions, but the Red Sox should think about trading him because his value is so high.

NICK CAFARDO I ON BASEBALL

While Red Sox wait for next year, roster will be retooled

A look at which Red Sox players are keepers and which should be moved in the offseason.

Adrian Walker

This time, Tom Menino comes up short

Tom Menino?s memoir ?Mayor For a New America? recounts 20 years of governance, but it doesn?t shed a lot of light on the man himself.

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