State to study impact of new casinos

The studies will test if new casinos affect problem gambling in the population, as well as if they lead to societal woes.

Health licensing boards voted without quorums

A state audit found four boards met without enough members present, casting a legal cloud over numerous votes.

Unless the issue is resolved over the next day or so, local FiOS subscribers also will miss Sunday?s New Orleans Saints vs. Pittsburgh Steelers game on Fox 25.

Verizon-Cox standoff over Fox 25 continues

A blackout of Fox 25 continued for 400,000 Mass. FiOS customers as the companies fight over carrying fees.

Boston University president Robert Brown.

BU fights City Council?s summons for president

The university argues that the summons is ?an undue burden, is oppressive, and was intended to harass? school president Robert Brown.

Simmons College seeks charges against former employee

The employee, who was fired over the summer, is accused of misappropriating student funds for her own use.

Two shot, one fatally, in Chicago Nordstrom

A man is dead and a woman is critically injured after an alleged domestic-related shooting inside the store.

Ray Rice and his wife, Janay, attended a two-day appeal hearing of his indefinite suspension from the NFL in New York.

Ray Rice?s indefinite suspension from NFL is overturned

Rice is now free to sign with any team and resume his career, but faces long odds of finding work in the NFL this season.

More than 90,000 still without power in New England

Customers in N.H., Maine, and Mass. are still dealing with the impact of the pre-Thanksgiving Day nor?easter.

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Inspired by events in Ferguson, Mo., protesters urged consumers to care more about justice and less about gifts.

Fred Donahue was born at Quincy Hospital, as were his mother, his wife, and his wife?s mother.

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Quincy says goodbye to hospital ?up the hill?

By Feb. 4, the Quincy Medical Center will close, a victim of changes in demographics, health care, and a tight-knit insularity.

The Massachusetts governor?s mansion that might have been

John Hancock sought to leave his family home for public use, but death, neglect, and politics got in the way.

Rockin? & Roastin? Café?s North Attleborough store is the first of what the company hopes will become a national franchise.

Aerosmith drummer to open coffee shop in N. Attleborough

The first location of Joey Kramer?s Rockin? & Roastin? Café is slated to open in early spring, the rocker said.

Zoe Miller, 10, of Arlington, explained her device to Jennifer Manthei and her son Christopher, 7.

?Chain reaction? brings families together at MIT

More than 20 all-ages teams united homemade machines to create a giant post-Thanksgiving chain reaction.

Joe Foley, a Brookline High senior, began making international trips alone at 16. National Geographic named him one of its Travelers of the Year.

Newton teen?s journeys earn him ?Traveler of the Year? honor

National Geographic described Joe Foley, now 18, as a high schooler ?with a serious case of wanderlust.?

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill Friday opposing the use of small gestation crates for pregnant pigs.

N.J. Gov. Christie vetoes politically charged pig crate bill

Christie vetoed a bill that would ban the use of small crates for pregnant pigs, which are used widely in Iowa.

Nov. 28, 1942 / Eyewitness Benjamin Ellis of Beacon Street was standing just across the street when the fire broke out. ?Suddenly a huge sheet of flame burst out through the entrance, setting fire to clothing, hair, hats, evening dresses, and searing human flesh. Those flames belched 15 feet out into the street.?

Friday marks 72d anniversary of Boston?s Cocoanut Grove fire

Nearly 500 people were killed in the 1942 fire, which happened on a small street in the Bay Village area.

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The Bidens spend Thanksgiving on Nantucket

Vice President Joe Biden made an appearance at the Nantucket Atheneum?s annual Cold Turkey Plunge.

Opinion

Michael P. Jeffries

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It is about the debasement of black humanity and utter indifference to black suffering.

The Big Picture

Nia Richardson, 16, of Roxbury, wets the reed of her saxophone as she prepares for practice in Jamaica Plain Nov. 19.

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English High?s marching band

The marching band at English High brings back a tradition that has been dormant at Boston public schools for about 40 years.