The SJC addressed potentially thousands of cases where guilty pleas were made based on evidence handled by a disgraced chemist.
Under pressure to resign, city planner wants to be firedIf he was fired, Boston?s chief city planner could take advantage of a benefit that would double his pension to $71,000 a year.
Tennis champion Bob Hewitt sentenced to six years in prisonCharges of rape and assault against the retired doubles tennis champion were the result of a Globe investigation.
Waco Tribune-Herald via AP
Authorities increased security in the Central Texas town following the melee Sunday that left nine bikers dead.
Kerry calls for more pressure on N. Korea over ?horrendous? actsSpeaking in South Korea, the secretary of state blasted Pyongyang for ?grotesque, grisly, horrendous, public displays of executions.?
Pawtucket Red Sox president James Skeffington diesThe attorney was part of a 10-member group that purchased the team in February.
Trial set for man accused in kidnapping, killing of Boston womanJury selection in the trial of 30-year-old Edwin Alemany is expected to start Monday in Suffolk Superior Court.
The president is also putting stricter controls on other weapons and equipment distributed to law enforcement.
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?To receive the harshest penalty in league history is just not fair,? the Patriots owner told Sports Illustrated?s Peter King.
Ben Volin | On football
It seems Ted Wells wasn?t totally genuine about the availability of locker room attendant Jim McNally.
Patriots bring back linebacker Brandon Spikes, report saysSpikes played for the Bills last season, but is returning to New England on a one-year deal.
An inspired ending for Don Draper ? and for ?Mad Men?The AMC show went out on top, and with a big exclamation point at the very end.
Northeastern to turn city park into athletics complexThe school will share the $26 million state-of-the-art intramural athletics complex with the public and youth sports leagues.
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Dean Potter, who grew up in New Hampshire, was renowned for his daring and sometimes rogue climbs and BASE jumps.
Pakistani firm at the center of a global fake degree scamThe company Axact appears to have turned the centuries-old scam of selling fake academic degrees into an Internet-era scheme.
Taylor Swift wins 8 Billboard Awards; Kanye West gets booedSwift is now the most decorated artist in the show?s history with 20 wins, beating Garth Brooks? 19-win record.
Jurors hand down death sentence for TsarnaevThis interactive timeline highlights trial coverage and a podcast featuring Globe columnist Kevin Cullen and WBUR reporter David Boeri.
Ian Bowles
Time for the Chamber of Commerce to embrace cleanThere?s one thing the new CEO can do to bring the organization into the 21st century: pay more attention to clean energy.
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Big Picture
Photographers have documented the relationships between humans and animals in countless ways.
With Boston?s 5-0 loss Sunday, the teams split a four-game series at Safeco Field.
The performance of CGI, the Canadian software developer that built the failed website for the Massachusetts Health Connector, is in question.
Amtrak trains are moving south out of New York again first time since the deadly crash last week.
The Mass. senator has also avoided, so far, being typecast as a fringe liberal, the Ted Cruz of the left.
The group says it would cost at least $65 million for McCoy Stadium to catch up with other Triple-A ballparks.
Critics suggest where you should go, what you should see, who you should hear, and what you should be reading this summer.
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The race to preserve disappearing dataFrom the film industry to science, archivists are struggling to preserve the bits and bytes of our lives.
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