Advocates are questioning a decision that granted a father custody of his son a year before he allegedly put the boy into a coma.
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Divided Nation
The rise of activist investing ? a trend that recently played out at a Wis. paper mill ? could affect tens of millions of workers.
Officials are investigating the death of a child and the hospitalization of another who were taken from an Auburn home Saturday.
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BEN VOLIN I ON FOOTBALL
It?s the rare case where both parties can save more face with a loss than a settlement.
Eighth-graders who took the T last year were more likely to be tardy but absent less frequently, and saved Boston millions.
JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
For Congo church, hand in politics is business as usualIt?s been an eventful few weeks for the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where roughly half the population is Catholic.
Julian Bond, civil rights activist, dead at 75Bond, a longtime board chairman of the NAACP, died after a brief illness, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.
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It is an unremarkable building, except that 42 Lomasney Way is utterly amazing, a vestige of another Boston, a witness to history.
JOAN VENNOCHI
There?s a high bar for getting a case before a jury ? especially in federal court ? so a judge often has the final say.
Officials do not believe foul play was involved in the death Ilya Lastovkin, who was in his early 20s when he went missing.
Jabaal Sheard excited to join Patriots, but not showing itSheard signed with the Patriots after spending four years with the woeful Browns.
Evan McGlinn for The Boston Globe/File 2012
Contrary to popular belief, empathy ? or the ability to put yourself in another person?s shoes ? isn?t necessarily something innate.
My First Home
All we knew is that we were buying a house together, in Somerville, in the late 1990s, and everything seemed really expensive at the time.
Beverly Beckham | From the archives
Saying goodbye to a child going off to college for the first time is a thing that never changes.
Buzzsaw | Matthew Gilbert
?Wire? creator scores again with HBO miniseries?Show Me a Hero? is the latest example of David Simon?s gift for turning unglamorous stories into gripping television drama.
ideas
A virtual-reality headset to be available early next year could give new life to the idea of stereoscopic images.
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.
DANTE RAMOS
10 years after Katrina, New Orleans abounds with lessonsThe city?s uneven recovery offers hope, but also a warning.
At least 104 people died in large explosions in Tianjin, a port city on China?s northeast coast. The explosions are thought to have originated in a warehouse that contained chemicals.
Innovation Economy | BetaBoston
On-demand apps creating gigs, but not exactly jobsA parade of new app-based services are making urban life more convenient. But it can be tough to earn a real living.
For Catholic Relief Services? Carolyn Woo, capitalism isn?t all badThe former business school dean winces a bit when Pope Francis rails against capitalism.
Jackie Bradley Jr. homered twice and had seven RBIs as the Sox smacked 26 hits against the Mariners.
The One Hood Youth Peace Basketball League, launched in 2007, recruits players from rival neighborhoods that share a history of conflict.
The Collings Foundation wants to showcase its collection of wartime planes, but some neighbors aren?t happy about the plan.
The front-runners each drew large crowds of gawkers during Saturday?s stop in Des Moines.
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Lincoln has developed a concept luxury seat that can be adjusted in 30 different ways.
Indian and Pakistani troops traded heavy gunfire and mortar rounds for a seventh day Sunday, officials said.
Shire?s unsolicited $30 billion offer for Baxalta was another example of shrewd global business by the company.
In a neat bit of symmetry, his BSO career will end on Sunday as it began: with Beethoven?s Ninth Symphony.
The 26-year-old Oklahoma native has embraced bright, preppy interiors while adding her own flair for quirk and California classic.
So why is a desolate, difficult-to-reach, scruffy property along the Oregon coast ranked at the top of golf wish lists?
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