Officials are searching for clues on what led to the death of Avelina, 2, and the hospitalization of another young girl.
There is a notable exception to the new Mass. law requiring employers to offer sick time: the state?s 351 cities and towns.
As landfills fill up fast, advocates are prodding communities to recycle the 600,000 mattresses thrown out each year.
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With such a large field of Republicans running for president, the candidates will do just about anything to stand out.
Over the last dozen years, the number of black firefighters has dropped by a quarter in the Boston Fire Department.
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The question being asked around town is simple: How long will these new boom times last?
Thunderstorms wreaked havoc across Mass. on Saturday, uprooting trees, flooding streets, and sparking small fires.
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Ethnic Bantus who fled a brutal civil war more than a decade ago have found their way to an unlikely home north of Portland.
?We have to keep the families together, but they have to go,? Donald Trump said on NBC?s ?Meet The Press? on Sunday.
?He wasn?t a person to draw attention to himself,? one said of Peter Andrew McKenna Jr. ?That?s what real heroes are about.?
Lawyers for Tom Brady and the NFL head to court again Wednesday, but whatever the ruling, the legal fight could go on for years.
Connections
It doesn?t matter how many guests you get to invite or how involved you are in the planning.
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In a time of heightened concern about bicycle safety, rising third-graders are learning more than the rules of the road.
Elite N.H. prep school in spotlight with rape case set to startA former student at St. Paul?s School in Concord, N.H., will go on trial on charges of raping a 15-year-old girl.
It is an unremarkable building, except that 42 Lomasney Way is utterly amazing, a vestige of another Boston, a witness to history.
Jason Day wins PGA Championship with record-setting 20-under finishThe 27-year-old Australian claimed his first major title, while Jordan Spieth finished second three shots back.
BOOK REVIEW
A new book argues that Robert Frost?s famous ?The Road Not Taken? may be his most misunderstood work.
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.
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.
Boston erased an early 7-0 deficit but the Mariners scored two in the 12th to get the win.
Advocates are questioning a decision that granted a father custody of his son a year before he allegedly put the boy into a coma.
Saying goodbye to a child going off to college for the first time is a thing that never changes.
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.
Authorities pulled more bodies from a massive blast site in the Chinese port of Tianjin, pushing the death toll to 112 on Sunday.
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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Boston?s last tenement survives as an island awash in modern city
As hearing looms, Deflategate battle may just be getting started
Authorities continue to investigate death of foster child in Auburn
Fury entered here: What led to the shooting of a Brigham and Women?s doctor on Jan. 20
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