The discounts come after the transit system?s persistent problems stranded commuters across the region in February.
Both collisions, which happened separately Wednesday, involved commercial vehicles, authorities said.
Kerry blasts Senate GOP letter to IranSecretary of State John Kerry said he was in ?utter disbelief? when he read the letter, calling it a threat to US foreign policy.
Jurors heard testimony from MIT?s police chief about the murder of Officer Sean Collier.
Ferguson police chief resigns after scathing federal reportThomas Jackson had previously resisted calls to step down over his handling of the Michael Brown shooting.
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Temperatures broke 60 degrees in several Massachusetts towns Wednesday, but winter will return this weekend.
A state court officer was arraigned on a charge that he attempted to intimidate a witness who was going to testify against him.
Aaron Hernandez held a Glock pistol as he walked through his home minutes after Odin Lloyd was shot, an expert on the guns testified.
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Here?s a position-by-position look at the status of the Patriots in the NFL free agency period.
Janice Sage is hopeful that entry fees will raise enough money to cover the cost of the 210-year-old Center Lovell Inn.
Tech lab
Most e-mail resides not on our own computers, but on somebody else?s.
On the theft?s 25th anniversary come never-before-revealed details of an aging con man and the FBI?s search of his property.
Fresh off a banner year, L.L. Bean says it plans to triple the number of stores it operates in the United States by 2020.
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Scientists have discovered a strange-looking fossil from a creature with flaps instead of fins, a helmet-like head, and a bizarre set of spiny appendages.
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A new book promises to teach interested readers the same prognosticating skills as a retired meteorology professor.
Magazine
A healthy dose of chewy steel-cut oats makes classic Irish soda bread so satisfying that it?s a meal in itself.
Evan Horowitz
While prescription-type opioids still lead to more overall deaths, heroin-related deaths have increased by 172 percent between 2010 and 2013.
Day 4: A look at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?s writingsThis interactive timeline highlights trial coverage and a podcast featuring Globe columnist Kevin Cullen and WBUR reporter David Boeri.
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The Marathon bombing show trialMaybe the millions spent on this pointless prosecution might be better spent on spell-checking names.
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Big Picture
A contingent from Boston made their way to Selma, Ala., on a 25-hour bus ride to retrace the steps of those who marched over the Edmund Pettus Bridge 50 years ago.
Darrelle Revis landing in New York certainly seems to strengthen the Patriots? case against their rivals.
Representative Seth Moulton, a former Marine, plans to march Sunday in the South Boston parade with the group OUTVETS.
An Army helicopter crashed during a night-time training mission off a Florida beach.
Bush?s leadership PAC has hired two sought-after GOP operatives to aid his efforts ahead of what could be a run for president.
Opened in 1927, the historic property had fallen, with peeling wallpaper, cigarette-holed blankets, and faulty air conditioning.
It is time again for the Globe?s annual restaurant competition.
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How criminal records hold Americans backMillions are trailed by permanent, easily accessible records ? at what critics say is far too a high a cost.
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