With its tidy homes and overgrown lots, the little pocket of Dorchester hardly looks like the city?s next hot address. Until you see the price tag.
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On a sleepy Election Day, Walter Timilty captured the Democratic nomination for the Milton-area Senate seat, and Patricia Jehlen of Somerville easily fended off a challenger.
Former Boston city councilor Stephen J. Murphy won a seven-way Democratic primary Thursday.
The N.H. school is being sued by the parents of a 15-year-old boy, saying it was wrong to withdraw their son after he had sex with another student.
Thousands of people who buy subsidized health insurance will face substantial premium increases.
For more than a decade, officers of color in Boston have challenged the Police Department?s use of a test used to screen the force for drug use.
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The Massachusetts Democrat has dived back into her job with visible gusto since being passed over to be Hillary Clinton?s running mate.
Ground Game
Trump?s upper hand in Maine?s Down EastNo one in history has ever chipped off a single electoral vote in Maine, but local experts say Donald Trump is favored to do so this year.
It sounds crazy, but some say there could be good reasons for the policy.
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Music, politics, and much moreThe coming offers a wide array of nonfiction films.
NICK CAFARDO | ON BASEBALL
Red Sox and Blue Jays in a classic duel for first placeThe Sox have the momentum as the AL East leaders square off in a three-game weekend series in Toronto.
In Ghana, he?s royalty. In Worcester, he?s just Harry.Harry Danso is among the largest single group of immigrants in this Central Massachusetts city.
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In Pittsburgh, Vivien Li gets a second shot at the waterfrontLi, the former head of the Boston Harbor Association, is using the same playbook to transform the riverfront in Pittsburgh.
SCOT LEHIGH
The charter school bargainCharter public schools have hardly been a fiscal calamity for traditional public schools.
IDEAS | Kevin D. Grant
Unitarians? long view on activismUnitarian Universalist churches are increasingly helping Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland.
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The former mayoral candidates are joining forces to help promote a project aimed at teaching peace and social justice to the city?s youth.
Boston?s police commissioner said eight members of his command staff will wear body cameras for the duration of the pilot program.
For the first time, Bill Cosby?s lawyers claim racismIn bringing up race, his legal team took aim at celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents about half the women who have agreed to testify against Cosby.
North Korea says it has successfully conducted a nuclear explosion test aimed at examining the power of its nuclear warheads.
THINGS TO DO
Everything fun to do this weekend in Boston and beyond.
Opinion | Marian Fontana
Looking at Trump from the vantage of 9/11We?re a less united country than we were on 9/11.
The desperate and the dead
The broken covenantBehind the fragmented state of mental health care lies a political system failure that spans decades ? and continues.
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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A look at children around the world starting school after their summer break.
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The Patriots tight end says he hasn?t been 100 percent since tweaking the tendon in practice vs. the Bears.
After a divorce, Dr. Frauenhofer relocated to Boston with her two younger daughters in 1967 and came to love her adopted city.
Ed ?Edzo? Kelly is about to become the No. 2 official in the international firefighters union.
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The G-Class is certainly a head-turner with squared off windows and edges that look like nothing else on the road.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan ? Taliban insurgents Thursday were on the verge of overrunning the southern city of Tirin Kot, the capital of Oruzgan province, Afghan officials and local elders said.
Credit cards issued secretly without a customer?s consent. Bank employees creating fake email accounts to sign up customers for online banking services.
As we all know, tickets to ?Hamilton? are pricey, but seeing this won?t be cheap either.
Plus: It?s Tico vs. Mamaleh?s in a breakfast battle for a good cause.
ground game
Trump, Clinton have work to do before debateNeither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton did themselves any favors in Wednesday?s forum.
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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Results from Thursday?s primary elections
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Timilty, Jehlen win state Senate primaries
Premiums soar 21% for popular health plan
Farm report: Who flourished and flopped for Red Sox?
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