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These were the year?s top tables, chefs, and trends.
Tom Brady focused on strong finish in MiamiAfter last year?s dismal end, Brady said the Patriots want to lock up the No. 1 seed in the playoffs.
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As socialism shattered Venezuela, the useful idiots applaudedVenezuela this Christmas is sunk in misery, as it was last Christmas, and the Christmas before that.
Love Letters
Should she be head-over-heels at four months?I know there would never be another man who would treat me better. We have fun together, so it?s hard to pinpoint what is missing.
SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP
One of the nation?s top prep schools has contended with further revelations in the last nine months.
TV Critic?s Corner
Finding solace in ?Chasing Cameron?Netflix?s new docu-series feels like peak everything, but at the end of a year so fraught with change it?s actually quite comforting.
Until debt do us part: When shared bills outlast the relationshipCouples who consolidated their loans are stuck with each other?s debt, even after they split.
?Tis the season? Brawls find their way to the mallsFights broke out at shopping centers across the country Monday, sending bargain-hunters fleeing for the exits.
The gifts are unwrapped, and it?s time to fly home. But can the new toys come with you?Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries can cause problems, and airlines may balk at virtual reality headsets.
Deadly synthetic opioids are arriving in the mailThe deadly drugs are streaming into the country in a flood of unscreened mail from abroad.
Lyft driver allegedly stabbed woman in the neck over number of passengers The 25-year-old suspect allegedly began arguing with the customer before attacking the client?s sister-in-law.
Aaron Hernandez?s texts are the center of a murder trial disputeA judge is deciding what evidence jurors will hear at Hernandez?s upcoming double murder trial in a pair of 2012 shootings.
Underpaid? Charity board decides yes, pays chief $1.34mCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston gave longtime president Barry Shrage the unusual payment after concluding he had been underpaid for years.
N.Y. school board sets meeting after official?s anti-Obama commentsThe board will meet on Thursday after Carl Paladino, a Donald Trump supporter, issued a death wish for President Obama.
White House scrambles to find a way to punish Russian hackersOfficials under President Obama would also like to make it difficult for President-elect Donald Trump to roll back any action they take.
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Renée Graham
The president-elect and his minions are flapping about trying to convince somebody ? anybody ? to perform at his various inaugural events.
Mass. home sales surged at the end of the fall buying season2016 is on pace to be busier than the previous year.
As jobs left the US, suicides roseWhen the US eased trade with China starting in 2000 and jobs disappeared, an increased suicide rate followed.
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Pat and Dina Lacey had been parents for only a few months when doctors discovered a tumor in their new baby?s chest. Told to take their son home to die, they put their faith in a young doctor who wouldn?t accept death as the answer.
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The San Antonio solutionOne Texas city took on mental health as a community and became a national model. Why can?t Mass. do the same?
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.
BC was up by 23 points in the third quarter, but the Terrapins rallied.
Police say Kiona Thomas, 25, attacked a customer after she stopped to pick up a passenger.
Hey there, home buyers looking for $350,000 houses: Yes, there definitely are some options in the area (though, yes, they can be somewhat hard to come by).
?Its sad & disappointing you are politicizing such a holy day,? tweeted the organization?s spokesman.
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Officials mounted an expansive search-and-recovery operation Monday for the victims and wreckage.
Massachusetts had just 12 IPOs in 2016. And it lost 14 publicly traded companies to acquisition or merger deals.
The USA network will marathon the first half of the first season on Jan. 7.
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