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The number of people killed in Mass. last year remains among the lowest number of homicides in at least a dozen years.
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City Councilor Tito Jackson says Mayor Martin J. Walsh is shortchanging the schools and ignoring the working class.
Jackson?s campaign will put black voters in spotlightBoston?s black leaders have been yearning for the chance to run the city since former state representative Mel King competed, and lost, in 1983.
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How do you crack down on opioids while regulating pot?While New England states move to tighten restrictions on opioids, some are simultaneously trying to figure out how to regulate marijuana.
Investors bet big on pot vaporizer reminiscent of Keurig machineAnother $4.1 million has been poured into CannaKorp, a startup developing marijuana vaporizers reminiscent of single-serving coffee machines.
Blackstone man arrested in New Jersey after father?s slayingWorcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. declined to say how Walter Armstrong, 83, was killed.
In the halls of high-tech MIT, he still paints professors? names on doorsIf a name appears written in black letters on a professor?s office door at MIT, it?s more likely than not that Glenn Silva put it there.
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New England is likely to experience a significantly greater rate of warming over the coming decades than the rest of the planet, according to a new study.
A liberal arts college without English majors?As middle-class families struggle, so do small schools that have traditionally drawn from a regional, middle-class pool of students.
Can Texans? top-rated defense stop Tom Brady?Brady is 5-1 against the Texans with 12 touchdowns and four interceptions.
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The Texans may be in for a temperature shock this weekendIt?s been really warm in Houston lately, with highs in the 70s ? and, despite this week?s thaw, it?s back to reality in New England on Saturday.
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Yes, the NFL really does have a ratings problemNFL ratings are trending downward. The election exacerbated that, and there?s little that suggests anything will change in 2017.
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Inaugural festivities have traditionally included the company?s clam chowder, but so far it appears it has been frozen out.
CNN at war with Trump over what its reporting unleashedA week before the inauguration, CNN is at war with an incoming president, not necessarily for what it reported but for what its reporting unleashed.
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Students had rallied for additional seconds to be tacked on at the busy crossing of Boylston and Tremont streets.
If sitting in the bleachers at the regulation high school basketball court loses its luster, this 20,043-square-foot home has options ? many, many options ? to keep your interest, including a covered water slide under the balcony overlooking all the hoop
As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, his message appears to be along these lines: I can be presidential, but I have no plans to be.
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The ruling party has vowed to ??sweep out?? the organizations funded by Hungarian-born George Soros.
Tito Jackson?s focus on the maddening gap between the haves and have-nots could give him his own edge in the Boston mayoral race.
It?s not the first time the show has ventured into polarizing territory.
?Relationships matter,? says the study?s coauthor.
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Tthe newly proclaimed 1.9 million-acre National Monument will preserve a photographer?s checklist of high-desert drama.
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History shows how the Sununus earned their political dynastyAs voters rejected the political dynasties of Clinton and Bush, N.H. put back in power one of the most successful last names in state history.
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