Recent initiatives have led to a nearly 45 percent drop in overtime costs, the agency announced.
Lowell teen crowdfunds her first two years of collegeBetween her gofundme.com page and panhandling, Emily Stutz raised a little more than $24,000 in less than a month.
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N.H. man who allegedly shot officers ordered heldIan MacPherson was not in the courtroom for his arraignment on charges of shooting two police officers.
Supreme Court avoids major ruling in birth control disputeThe court is asking lower courts to take another look at the issue between faith-based groups and the Obama administration.
Hugo Van Vuuren, co-founder and general partner of Xfund, sued his partner for breach of fiduciary duty, defamation, and fraud.
US, other world powers ?ready? to arm LibyaThe decision, a move to try to counter ISIS, is stated in a communique prepared for the end of top-level talks on the North African country.
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The whale became trapped in fishing gear not far from the shoreline in Wood End.
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The hospital said a 64-year-old bank courier from Halifax, whose penis was removed because of cancer, received the transplant earlier this month.
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Trump calls Warren ?Pocahontas? during NYT interviewThe feud between Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren is surfacing yet again.
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Trump says he doesn?t expect a good relationship with UK leaderThe Republican presidential candidate took shots at Prime Minister David Cameron and London?s mayor.
Harvard Art Museums
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After periods as a muralist and an abstractionist, Guston turned toward a figurative style laden with enigmatic symbolism.
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Photographers around the world have been documenting birds during this busy time of year migrating, building, defending and hatching.
Private schools, painful secretsMore than 200 victims. At least 90 legal claims. At least 67 private schools in New England. This is the story of hundreds of students sexually abused by staffers, and emerging from decades of silence today.
Bogaerts looks like he?ll hit for average like the former Yankee star, but he still could develop more power.
?Accepting fear head on is freeing,? Nina Tassler said to 6,600 graduates. ?Specifically the fear of change.?
Advocates and critics of a proposed Mass. amendment to raise taxes look at where the cash would go in the state?s coffers.
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