The groups are pushing a ballot measure that would direct more than $1 billion a year to education and transportation.
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This week?s seismic event in Rhode Island was barely noticeable, but experts say a big one will eventually strike.
Tsarnaev lawyer to represent accused S.C. church shooterCourt records show David Bruck has been provisionally appointed to defend Dylann Roof on federal charges.
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Father charged in abuse of son, 7, who fell into comaThe boy showed signs of starvation and bruising, injuries that were exacerbated when he was forced to scrub floors, records show.
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Defense secretary makes first trip to Iraq since he took officeAsh Carter will hear the latest on support for the Iraqi army?s coming attempt to recapture the key city of Ramadi from ISIS
The state Gaming Commission has two contentious issues to grapple with at its regularly scheduled meeting.
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The five family members were found stabbed to death, allegedly by two teenage male relatives of the victims.
The event promises new challenges for the GOP?s years-in-the-making push to attract Hispanic voters.
Movie Review
A satisfying B-movie with an A-movie veneer, ?Southpaw? huffs and puffs to punch above its weight.
Movie Review
Little to hold your attention in Adam Sandler?s ?Pixels?The film may feel flatter to kids of the ?80s than it does to moviegoers too young to have known Pac-Man from Ant-Man.
Evan Horowitz | Quick Study
What to look for in tonight?s Olympic debateAt 8 p.m., four of our finest Olympic debaters will square off in a prime-time, tag-team clash of opinions.
Watch and participate in the debate, moderated by FOX25 anchor Maria Stephanos and Boston Globe reporter Sacha Pfeiffer, starting at 8 p.m.
Tom Brady, NFL have discussed settlement, report saysAccording to Pro Football Talk, some owners are pushing NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to uphold the original penalty.
Photograph by Steve Liptay
Magazine | Perspective
There were always a few people who read Scripture with enough care to find consistent threads of stewardship and ecological consciousness.
Aly Raisman confident as she takes aim at Rio OlympicsThe 21-year-old Needham native and Olympic gold medalist is hoping to achieve a goal of making consecutive US Olympics squads.
CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER
Is Ben Cherington the right man to fix the Red Sox?Once Plan A doesn?t work, the GM and the boys in baseball operations seem to be unwilling or unable to employ a Plan B.
The pun is as fitting as it is inevitable, so let?s go ahead and get it out of the way: ??Sharknado?? has definitely jumped the shark.
Hike the Whites
Mt. Willard or South Kinsman? Cannon Mountain or Zealand Falls? Fill out our bracket and let us know.
John Kasich joins popular path to GOP nod through N.H.Kasich mapped his path to the nomination through the first-in-the-nation primary, but so have six other GOP hopefuls.
JOANNA WEISS
Can MTV fix race relations?If millennials are open to an earnest, surface-scratching effort to have a real discussion about race, that?s a good start.
Globe photographer Suzanne Kreiter traveled to Cuba this summer, 21 years after her first journey there.
Hiawatha Bray | Tech Lab
Business selling .sucks Web domains a clever, creepy schemeCorporations and celebrities are scrambling to buy up .sucks addresses to fend off online assaults on their reputations.
The transformation of the Chicago archdioceseArchbishop Blase Cupich can further remake the leadership of the archdiocese with the departure of media star Rev. Robert Barron.
Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington said other teams have expressed interest in some of Boston?s veteran players.
A veteran Marine from Massachusetts killed by a gunman in Tennessee will be laid to rest next week.
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Mayor Marty Walsh announced this week that the ParkBoston app could be used in five more Boston neighborhoods.
Sandra Bland told her Texas jailers that she had tried to commit suicide in the past, officials said.
Trump?s financial disclosure forms put his worth in the billions, although how many billions is a moving target.
Dunkin? sales rose 2.9 percent at established US locations in the second quarter, the company said.
A music venue with a fervent following has taken root in the unlikeliest of places: Fall River.
Several teams from Goose Island Beer Co. are going around to key cities to offer their craft brews. They?re owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, so they have deep pockets to do it.
Design New England
A home with open spaceA new floor plan for a renovated 1960s ranch-style house makes entertaining easy.
Brainiac
Capturing the short, furious lives of dragonfliesDragonflies get their close-up in a new book by a Yale astronomer.
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