Boston?s bid would make extensive use of area college venues, unique among competing plans.
Robert Caret earned high marks for lobbying lawmakers to boost funding and for his advocacy of public education.
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More than 4,400 children and about 2,000 parents took part in the event that features a holiday celebration of colossal scale.
Civil rights leaders said the deaths of two officers in New York could derail the movement that has grown out of the deaths black men by police.
The hedge fund where the MBTA invested $10 million is shutting down and its chief executive is banned from the industry.
The action could be part of a broad US government response to a cyberattack on Sony Pictures.
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PR firm reassigns Rosenberg?s partner to Fla.Incoming state Senate President Stanley Rosenberg?s partner has been criticized for his social media activity.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Do you feel better or worse about Patriots? chances?The Patriots did what was necessary to defeat the Jets, but Rex Ryan demonstrated how to attack New England.
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Ben Volin | On football
Anyone watching the game could tell: The Patriots? offensive line was getting whipped by the Jets.
Patriots 17, Jets 16
Patriots survive scare from Jets, clinch playoff byeJonas Gray?s fourth-quarter touchdown run lifted the Patriots over their AFC East rivals.
New England totaled just 231 yards in its victory over New York and Brady was sacked four times.
Bruins 4, Sabres 3 | OT
The Bruins scored late in the third period to tie the game and then in extra time to win it.
television
Recent episodes have been frenetic, but the season finale had a quieter tone.
An entrepreneur?s 1806 scheme to sell chunks of frozen New England ponds still shapes how we live.
DANTE RAMOS
Rage against the scheduling machineRelying on faceless algorithms makes it easier for employers to casually jerk workers around.
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Photos from the last four months of 2014 depicting news events and daily life around the world.
The Miami Heat put six scorers in double figures against the Celtics Sunday night.
Three men were stabbed on Blue Hill Avenue, leaving one man in his 20s dead, according to police.
Liberal groups? support for Senator Elizabeth Warren puts pressure on Hillary Clinton to move further to the left.
A suspect was taken into custody after the early morning shooting, police said.
Despite areas of progress, some things have not changed since the publication of ?A Christmas Carol.?
Liv Van Dyke loves community, which is why she joined fellow readers in establishing Little Free Libraries.
For top-notch theater, there?s nothing like a night on the town at this festive time of the year.
Appropriately, the Land of Snow is where the show begins at St. Paul?s School in Concord, N.H., where ?The Nutcracker Act II? was performed last weekend.
How a Mass. man invented the global ice market An entrepreneur?s 1806 scheme to sell chunks of frozen New England ponds still shapes how we live.
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