The competition for deals is so fierce that banks are relaxing lending standards and waiving standard protections.
The councilors pushing hardest for significant raises have had the poorest attendance at City Council hearings, a Globe analysis shows.
Recusal call clouds Sampson caseConcerns over Judge Mark Wolf?s interactions at a film festival have disrupted one of the most high-stakes federal cases in Boston.
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Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack for years had pressured officials to uphold their commitments to such projects.
Despite resistance to a state takeover of the city?s schools, some are cautiously optimistic about the system?s new leader.
New striping will be painted and flexible posts will be installed at the intersection where Anita Kurmann was fatally struck.
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Tenants of one rental said they haven?t had a stove for two months, and the building manager told them cooking is overrated.
The restaurant employee stabbed in Peabody was a hardworking immigrant who moved here to escape violence and start a family.
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The arrests this month over an alleged plot against the Pokémon World Championships in Boston has raised questions.
The site, built with state bonds to be a staging ground for a wind farm in Nantucket Sound, sits unused after Cape Wind cancelled its lease.
Craven, whose ?Nightmare on Elm Street? and ?Scream? made him one of the most recognizable names in the genre, has died.
Ben Volin | On football
Tom Brady?s lawsuit against the NFL is hitting the final stretch ? maybe.
The move comes after Alaskans sought to change the name amid opposition from those from McKinley?s home state of Ohio.
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When one hiker set out to tackle the Georgia-to-Maine footpath, he anticipated solitude in wilderness ? not a monthslong frat party.
Trump stood out early at college: as a bonfire of vanity, talent, and natural swagger, a millionaire, a student not quite as great as he recalls.
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If an activist investor gets its way, EMC?s days as the pillar of New England?s tech sector could be numbered.
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Comedian John Oliver has been calling attention to such swindlers and is rightly appalled.
Why Joe Biden could skip N.H. if he runs for presidentThe rationale for Biden to skip Iowa and New Hampshire is this: He would enter in the race too late to compete in those states.
Stephen Kinzer
Today?s refugee crisis is the price for yesterday?s interventionsThe former subjects are pushing into the lands of their former masters.
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President Obama visited New Orleans to mark progress the city has made before the anniversary of the hurricane.
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Is the tech party coming to an end? Investors have had a rollicking time putting money into tech and biotech startups. Are they getting ready to split?
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In Nigeria, a chance for fellowshipThe fellowship of suffering in the New Kuchingoro camp illustrates one of the least appreciated aspects of the Boko Haram story.
Getting out of last place and finishing .500 are other things that are on their to-do list.
Yves Dambreville, who was shot in Haiti on Wednesday, may have been the accidental target of a ?robbery gone wrong.?
To turn, or not to turn. That is the question being debated where Glezen Lane meets Route 27.
Obama wants to use changes to Alaska?s climate to instill urgency into his global warming agenda, but is showing he?s navigating competing interests.
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Consumer Reports declared the 2015 Tesla P85D, a performance version of the Model S, to be the top-rated car the magazine?s critics have ever tested.
The crowds were undeterred by a heavy police presence after authorities declared the rally illegal and blocked the organizer?s website.
The drug cut bad cholesterol levels among patients in a small trial by about as much as new treatments from other firms, with far less frequent dosing.
A new marketplace will become the first to offer what amounts to an Airbnb for classic and exotic car rentals, owners say.
The Christian drama ?War Room? did make a surprise bid for the box-office lead, though.
Appropriately, founder (and longtime lobsterman) Luke Holden hails from Maine.
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