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Five people, including three in Boston, were killed in a spasm of violence Wednesday night and early Thursday.
Man killed in Cambridge was ?a good man,? mother saysRasaun Nichols, 31, had been focused on helping younger people in his neighborhood avoid making bad decisions.
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Randolph man identified as victim in Mattapan shootingDarwin Wilson Adilas, 21, was about to start studying at Massasoit Community College to be a registered nurse, family said.
Malden woman identified as victim in Everett bar shootingAshlee Berryman, who was shot to death at the Braza Bar and Grill, was an ?unintended target,? according to prosecutors.
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Baker denounces Trump?s crude remarks about women?I find a lot of those comments to be reprehensible, outrageous, and ridiculous, and I wish he would take them back,? Baker said.
Rape at the core of the radical theology of ISISInterviews with women and girls who were once captives illuminate how the practice has been enshrined in the group?s tenets.
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Tom Brady won?t be required to attend next week?s hearingJudge Richard Berman changed his mind and said none of the principals need appear at the next settlement hearing.
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Rival t-shirt makers each claiming to have invented the ?Free Brady? T-shirt logo are locked in a behind the scenes war of words.
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Aaron Hernandez?s home to be sold in civil suitThe proceeds from the sale of the house and the SUV are to be put into a bank account and kept there until a later court order.
Officials confer on traffic changes near proposed Everett casinoIt was unclear whether Thursday?s gathering marked a possible thaw in relations between Boston and Steve Wynn.
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Sampling indicated that bacteria concentrations were roughly twice the recommended limit in the Lower Charles River Basin.
Nauset Light Beach and Coast Guard Beach, about a mile away from one another, each closed around 4 p.m. Wednesday.
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Tracking the endorsements of N.H. GOP activists Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, and Rand Paul have picked up the most support from top party activists in the Granite State so far.
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Obama, Iran deal supporters shouldn?t stifle debateThe president?s bully pulpit shouldn?t be used to bully Americans who oppose the deal into silence.
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Demonstrators returned to Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere in the St. Louis area one year after the death of Michael Brown.
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