Statewide sales tax collections have dropped for the first time in more than three years.
Jessica Rinaldi/Globe staff
The Curley Community Center reopened to adults after the death two days ago of a missing young boy.
Angela Merkel says attacks by refugees mock Germany?s hospitalityAfter recent bloody attacks stunned the world, the German chancellor defended her refugee policy while calling for more security.
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Thursday will see temperatures hit the 90s again, but relief could be on the way.
City urges cut in overtime costs for major departmentsThe city is asking departments to shave off 5 percent in overtime spending they pay employees who solve crime, fight fires, and sweep the streets.
Four nominated to Appeals Court Governor Charlie Baker nominated two Superior Court justices and two people from the attorney general?s office Wednesday.
Eight people have been displaced as a result of the fire.
Trent Cook, 47, was pulled from the Merrimack River Wednesday evening.
The incident was one of two Western Massachusetts drownings in as many days.
Michele K. Short
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What the film?s premise has in novelty, it lacks in execution.
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?Les Cowboys? updates ?The Searchers?This artful, melancholy film does not suffer by comparison with John Ford?s masterpiece until the end.
What David Ortiz?s last season tells us about how he?ll be rememberedIt?s what happens between the games.
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Yvonne Abraham
If Stein is looking for someone to compare to Trump, the mirror would be a pretty good place to start.
Trump says he was being sarcastic, but thinks Putin is better leader than ObamaDonald Trump said he was being sarcastic when he made his explosive remarks Wednesday.
Schedule: Katy Perry to perform, Hillary Clinton to accept nominationA look at the schedule of speakers on day four of the Democratic National Convention.
The Patriots held their first day of training camp at the practice fields of Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.
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Julian Edelman facing paternity suitA Swedish model says the Patriots receiver is the father of her unborn baby.
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The challenge for Clinton as she accepts the nomination Voters don?t trust Clinton, so she needs to find a way to win without that trust.
spotlight
Nearly half of people killed by Massachusetts police over the last 11 years were suicidal, mentally ill, or showed clear signs of crisis.
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.
Democrats met in Philadelphia for their national convention.
STAT, a national publication from Boston Globe Media Partners, covers health, medicine, and life sciences.
A flawed, up-and-down team begins a challenging stretch run loaded with road games.
Mr. Prior, of Arlington, was also an inductee into the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame.
Political conventions are delivering a mid-summer feast of speeches in an era of cable TV sound bytes and 140-character attacks.
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At least two victims died from their injuries, witnesses and civilian leaders said.
However, policy makers stopped short of signaling that the move could come as soon as September.
Mary Baker Eddy and Victoria Woodhull argued over whether marriage was a threat to women?s equality.
Arts doyenne Joyce Kulhawik is lending her support to an effort to create a new performing arts complex.
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Ground Game: Obama, Trump, and the ?other? factorEight years after President Obama was the ?other,? there?s suddenly a new kind of ?other? ? a super rich celebrity.
Design New England
?This is home?Keith Leblanc and Kelly Monnahan create a haven for themselves, family, and friends in the piney hills of outer Cape Cod.
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A new low for Jill Stein
An open letter to J.K. Rowling: Please, just stop.
South Boston center closed as family mourns death of Kyzr Willis
After Ailes? departure, a stony silence at Fox
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