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It wasn?t long ago when people complained that the University of Massachusetts? flagship campus in Amherst was a second-tier state school.
Pentagon says US airstrike has targeted Taliban leader Mullah MansourOne American official says the U.S. believes Mansour was killed in a drone strike authorized by President Barack Obama.
A 23-year-old woman died Friday night after sustaining injuries in a Worcester car crash early that morning, police said Saturday.
Boston Public Library trustees choose California librarian for tob jobTrustees unanimously chose Jill Bourne, city librarian at the San Jose Public Library, to lead Boston?s library network.
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Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh said he was among ?my people.?
Weld?s jump into the race is par for the courseWilliam Weld, the former governor who will run for VP on the Libertarian ticket, has always seemed to relish a sudden plunge into the unknown.
In a tragic start to event, two horses died at Pimlico Race Course and a jockey broke a collarbone after a spill on a damp, rainy Saturday.
Leaked data showed trouble in cockpit before EgyptAir crashMounting evidence points to a sudden, dramatic catastrophe that led to the plane?s crash into the eastern Mediterranean early Thursday.
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Three years after he was badly injured in an attack in Afghanistan, Sergeant Thomas Block has a new mission: rescuing children from predators.
CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER
Baseball isn?t keeping up the paceEntering Saturday, the Red Sox? average time of game was 3 hours, 15 minutes, second-longest in baseball.
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
Resident Judy Grecco says she isn?t crazy about cities and loves the town of Hanover?s country feel.
Five things you should know about sunscreen before you get greased up for a day on the beach.
art review
Critic Sebastian Smee says the Peabody Essex Museum?s exhibition captures the artist in all his carnal, tormented, gasp-inducing greatness.
ALEX SPEIER
His line during the 25-game streak is a mind-boggling .409 average with a .471 OBP, .806 slugging mark, and 1.278 OPS.
About 10,000 people in the state lost their food assistance last month, thanks to a provision in the 1996 welfare law.
The film adaptation puts you in a room with the 36th president of the United States, with an intimate view of his weary, furrowed face.
The pews grew emptier and emptier. Until at last they realized: the Congregational Church of West Medford was dying. But they were people of faith and they believed in resurrection.
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Making homeless families? lives more stableThe state has dramatically reduced the number of homeless families living in motels.
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Ground Game
Why party unity is overrated in this electionThe rule about candidates getting the entire party to fight for them after a bruising primary might be tossed out of the window.
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One in an occasional series exploring the definitions of words via photography.
There are differing opinions in their ranks as to how suspicious they should be when evaluating players.
The MBTA pension fund released its belated 2014 annual report Friday, confirming a 5.5 percent investment return that year, below its 6.2 percent benchmark.
The message from the administration Friday was that it?s time to get back to governing.
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The idea was floated during a live Twitter chat with Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, but some have suggested a much more radical future for cars in Boston.
Okinawa police have arrested Kenneth Shinzato, 32, who was working as a computer and electrical contractor on the Kadena air base.
The first African-American woman to run a Fortune 500 company will step down as chief executive when the struggling technology and services company splits itself in two later this year.
?In the Body of the World? is directed by American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus.
All I saw were trees. Thousands of them. And my in-law?s house here on Martha?s Vineyard.
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.
Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight??Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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When inspiration strikesWith their home as canvas, the couple behind KTII Design Group embrace the stylistic power of change.
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Sheryl Sandberg graduation speech: It?s the hard days that determine who you are
Face it, Bernie Sanders. It?s over
North Pond Hermit discovered, arrested after 27 years in Maine woods
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