Advocates are concerned that policies could move in a different direction from the Patrick administration.
Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
The governor?s decision to not use the traditional office is a not-so-subtle symbolic choice and perhaps a little dig at his predecessor.
Parole hearing expected for convict who escaped for 20 yearsNorman Porter Jr. was convicted of two murders but fled and spent 20 years as a fugitive, becoming a poet in Chicago.
All the quakes have been recorded in an area near the state?s border with Rhode Island.
??I shouldn?t be here,?? said the former St. John?s Prep football star from North Andover.
Gas pump clips now legal, but may take months to appearThe convenient little devices allow consumers to fill up a tank without holding the handle constantly.
Low pay blamed for turnover among public defendersA gubernatorial commission found that the state?s meager salaries ends up wasting a lot of money.
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As the countries buried their dead, the authorities intensified efforts to find associates of the gunmen who attacked France.
opinion | Robert Leikind
France must fight anti-SemitismCan French democracy survive the failure to secure its ideals for the Jewish community?
Ben Volin | On Football
Bill Belichick just may have unlocked the door to a wild new offense with infinite possibilities.
In November, New England rushed for 246 yards at Indianapolis, but Bill Belichick said, ?this is a new matchup.?
Security for Boston Olympics may need $1b in US fundsThe city would likely need at least a billion dollars in federal taxpayer support ? and perhaps far more.
USA Today Sports/File
KEVIN CULLEN
Why was it appropriate to hold a referendum on the effects of building a casino, but not on a Boston bid for the Games?
Amazon to take over textbook sales at UMass AmherstUMass officials hope the arrangement with the online retailer will save students money.
Judith Beals
Don?t pardon Mark WahlbergThe former assistant attorney general who prosecuted Mark Wahlberg 26 years ago writes ?that history should never be erased.?
ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT
Crowds gathered in Paris and elsewhere in a somber display of solidarity and defiance after a series of terrorist attacks shook France.
Cardale Jones led the Buckeyes past the Ducks in the first College Football Playoff national championship game.
The person was in their 70s and was believed to be a resident of the home on Stage Island Road.
The Pentagon swiftly suspended the sites and said it appears that no classified material was breached.
Governor Baker, Senate President Rosenberg, and House Speaker DeLeo said that they were still assessing the scope of the state?s fiscal problem.
The arrangement is the first of its kind made by the rapidly growing San Francisco-based software company.
How the Children?s Writer-in-Residence fellowship at the Boston Public Library launched the career of Natalie Coward Anderson.
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Too much training requiredIt?s great to be a highly qualified professional. But critics say excessive licensing demands have a cost for everyone else.
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